1. OA 2
# 1 Explain Island Hopping Campaign (486) Pg 485 Map Skills # 2 & #3 #4 What event leads U.S. into the Second World War? # What was Operation Overlord? What was the strategy?

2. Pacific Theater
U.S. vs Japan

6. Potsdam Conference – make the agreements in the Yalta
Conference official in Europe
Atomic Bombs on Japan
Conditions of surrender of Japan discussed

7. “Island Hopping” strategy – airbase and block Japanese supplies.

8. Tokyo Bombing

10. Iwo Jima

11. Many committed ritual suicide
22,000 Japanese soldiers on Iwo Jima at the beginning of the battle, only 216
Many committed ritual suicide

12. Kamikaze Fighters

14. J. Robert Oppenheimer –
lead scientist of the
“Manhattan Project”

15. Colonel Paul Tibbets – Enola Gay – Little Boy - Hiroshima
Major Charles Sweeney Bockscar
Fat Man -Nagasaki

16. Hiroshima – Little Boy
Nagasaki – Fat Man

18. Hiroshima

20. (Public Papers of the Presidents, Harry S. Truman, 1945, pg. 212).
“Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan’s power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us.”
(Public Papers of the Presidents, Harry S. Truman, 1945, pg. 212).

21. Surrender of the Japanese on the USS Missouri

22. General MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito

23. Aftermath International Military Tribunal
“War crimes” and “Crimes against Humanity”
Nuremberg Trials – Nazis
Japan – military officials

24. Aftermath Germany is divided
United Nation – an international organization
Casualties
United States and Soviet Union become the sole super powers
Cold War