1. LESSON #2: THE END IN THE PACIFIC
UNIT V: THE ATOMIC AGE
LESSON #2: THE END IN THE PACIFIC

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VI. Closing in on Japan:
A. Iwo Jima: Feb 19, 1945

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VI. Closing in on Japan:
B. Okinawa: April 1-June 22, 1945
Numbers:
300,000 Japanese Civilians
500,000 American Troops
100,000 Japanese troops and conscripts
Tekketsu Kinotai “Iron and Blood Corps”
Tetsu- no ame “rain of steel” Kamikaze
Operation Ten-Go “Naval Kamikaze”
(Yamato)

6. Death of the battleship Yamato

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545 Airmen shot down over Japan
Approx. 350 executed.
VI. Closing in on Japan:
C. Strategic Bombing of Japan

8. FIREBOMBING TOKYO

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VI. Closing in on Japan:
D. Japan prepares for invasion
1. Operation Ketsugo (The defense of Kyushu)
2. Defense forces: 4,335,000 Military, 31,550,000 Civilian Defense
3. 10,000 Kamikaze standing by.
midget subs and Kaiten torpedoes, 2,412 suicide boats.

10. The Japanese had organized the “Patriotic Citizens Fighting Corps,” which included all healthy men aged 15 to 60 and women 17 to 40 for a total of 28 million people, for combat support and, later, combat jobs. Weapons, training and uniforms were generally lacking: some men were armed with nothing better than muzzle-loading muskets, longbows, or bamboo spears; nevertheless, they were expected to make do with what they had. One mobilized high school girl, Yukiko Kasai, found herself issued an awl and told, "Even killing one American soldier will do. ... You must aim for the abdomen."

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VI. Closing in on Japan:
E. OPERATION DOWNFALL (est. 514,000 cas.)
Two sub parts:
1. Operation Olympic (invasion of Kyushu) planned for 1 November ,000 troops.
2. Operation Coronet (invasion of Honshu) planned for 1 March ,200,000 troops.

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VII. Potsdam: The Postwar Plan:
A. July, 1945
B. Truman has replaced Roosevelt
C. Churchill is replaced mid-conference by Clement Atlee
D. Only Stalin remains E. F.

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VIII. The Atomic Bombs and Victory over Japan (VJ) Day
A. The Manhattan Project
B. White Sands
C. Tinian
D. Hiroshima Bomb
6 August 1945
E. Nagasaki Bomb
9 August 1945
F. 14 August, 1945
G. 2 Sept, 1945

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