3. Pearl Harbor

4. Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

5. Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!

6. President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

7. USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

8. Pearl Harbor Memorial 2,887 Americans Dead!

9. Pacific Theater of Operations

10. “Tokyo Rose”

11. Paying for the War

14. Singapore Surrenders [February, 1942]

15. U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor, the Philippines [March, 1942]

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

17. Bataan: British Soldiers A Liberated British POW

18. The Burma Campaign The “Burma Road” General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942

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

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

21. Farthest Extent of Japanese Conquests

22. Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

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

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

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

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

28. US Marines on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

29. Potsdam Conference: July, 1945 yFDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference. yThe United States has the A-bomb. yAllies agree Germany is to be divided into occupation zones yPoland moved around to suit the Soviets. P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin

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

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

32. Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

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

34. The Beginning of the Atomic Age

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

36. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

37. Hiroshima Memorials

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

39. Japanese POWs, Guam

40. V-J Day in Times Square, NYC

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

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

44. 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.

45. Massive Human Dislocations

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

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

48. The Division of Germany: 1945 - 1990

49. The Creation of the U. N.

50. The Nuremberg War Trials: Crimes Against Humanity

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

52. 7 Future American Presidents Served in World War II

53. The Race for Space

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

55. The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements

56. The De-Colonization of European Empires