3. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

4. Pacific Theater of Operations

5. “Tokyo Rose”

6. Key Events of the Pacific Theater

7. 1. U.S. Surrenders Philippines [March, 1942]

8. Bataan Death March : April, 1942 76,000 US prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 mi in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.

9. Bataan: British Soldiers A Liberated British POW

10. Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”

11. “Island-Hopping”: US Troops on Kwajalien Island

12. 2. Doolittle Raids: First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942 Little damage but moral victory for US

13. 3. Battle of the Coral Sea: May 7-8, 1942

14. - First all air naval battle in world hist -Plane on plane; plane on ship -Saved Australia from Japan

15. 4. Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942

16. Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942 US catches 4 Japanese Aircraft Carriers off guard and sinks them all Makes Ja navy as big as ours Now US on offensive

17. Japanese Kamikaze Planes: The Scourge of the South Pacific Kamikaze Pilots Suicide Bombers

18. Gen. MacArthur “Returns” to the Philippines! [1944]

19. 5 Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945] US Marines on Mt.Surbachi, US now has base to launch attacks on Japan

20. Firebombing of Japan Most of the structures in Tokyo, a major city in Japan, were made of wood, not concrete, so incendiary bombs would create a “firestorm.” Tokyo was producing supplies for the war effort, but was primarily a civilian target. Over 100,000 Japanese were killed in one night of firebombing.

21. 6. The Manhattan Project: Project to build nuke Los Alamos, NM 6. The Manhattan Project: Project to build nuke Los Alamos, NM Dr. Robert Oppenheimer I am become death, the shatterer of worlds! Major General Lesley R. Groves

22. Why drop the A-Bomb? Prior Japan was given an ultimatum: Surrender or we will use new “super weapon.” Japan refused Pres Truman wanted to end war quickly Felt A-Bomb would save more lives in the long run Felt millions would die in Japanese invation Fire bombing didn’t result in surrender

23. Tinian Island, 1945 Little Boy Fat Man Enola Gay Crew

24. Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

25. Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 ©70,000 killed immediately. ©48,000 buildings. destroyed. ©100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

26. The Beginning of the Atomic Age

27. Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 ©40,000 killed immediately. ©60,000 injured. ©100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

28. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

29. Hiroshima Memorials

30. V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

31. Japanese POWs, Guam

32. V-J Day in Times Square, NYC

34. WW II Casualties: Europe Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

35. WW II Casualties: Asia Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

36. WW II Casualties Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded Australia1,000,00026,976180,864 Austria800,000280,000350,117 Belgium625,0008,460 55,513 1 Brazil 2 40,3349434,222 Bulgaria339,7606,67121,878 Canada 1,086,343 7 42,042 7 53,145 China 3 17,250,5211,324,5161,762,006 Czechoslovakia— 6,683 4 8,017 Denmark—4,339— Finland500,00079,04750,000 France—201,568400,000 Germany20,000,000 3,250,000 4 7,250,000 Greece—17,02447,290 Hungary—147,43589,313 India2,393,89132,12164,354 Italy3,100,000 149,496 4 66,716 Japan9,700,0001,270,000140,000 Netherlands280,0006,5002,860 New Zealand 194,000 11,625 4 17,000 Norway75,0002,000— Poland—664,000530,000 Romania 650,000 5 350,000 6 — South Africa 410,0562,473— U.S.S.R.— 6,115,000 4 14,012,000 United Kingdom 5,896,000 357,116 4 369,267 United States 16,112,566291,557670,846 Yugoslavia3,741,000305,000425,000 1.Civilians only. 2.Army and navy figures. 3.Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps. 4.Deaths from all causes. 5.Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany. 6.Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany. 7.National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.

37. Massive Human Dislocations

38. The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Emerged as the Two Superpowers of the later 20 c

39. The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War

40. The Division of Germany: 1945 - 1990

41. The Creation of the U. N.

42. The Nuremberg War Trials: Crimes Against Humanity

43. Japanese War Crimes Trials General Hideki Tojo Bio-Chemical Experiments

44. 7 Future American Presidents Served in World War II

45. The Race for Space

46. Early Computer Technology Came Out of WW II Mark I, 1944 Admiral Grace Hooper, 1944-1992 COBOL language Colossus, 1941

47. The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements

48. The De-Colonization of European Empires