1. Holocaust Project Choose a perspective
Country, event, victim groups…
Research how the Holocaust impacted that perspective
Include specific example- individual or family
Two parts:
2-pg paper
Visual (powerpoint, Prezi, etc)
Individual or in pairs
Due Friday March 3
Day of WWII test
Holocaust Project

2. Countries Germany Poland Russia Greece Italy France Denmark Netherlands …
Victims
Communists/
Socialists
Disabled
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Gay men
*Jewish people
Roma *(gypsies)
Enemies (clergy, political opponents)
Events
Kristallnacht
Ghettos
Warsaw uprising
Nuremberg laws …
Example Perspectives

3. 62,000 106,000 -American Casualties -Japanese Casualties
Battle of Okinawa
62, ,000
-American Casualties
-Japanese Casualties

4. Battle of Midway
American Casualties
Japanese Casualties
340 3,000

5. What do these numbers tell us about war in the Pacific?

6. Was the use of atomic force at the end of WWII justified?
What was occurring in the Pacific at this time?

7. Notebooks Write down the objective question for today:
Why did President Truman decide to use atomic force against Japan in August 1945?
Notebooks

8. Manhattan Project Team that developed the atomic bomb
Largest scientific enterprise in history
Best-kept secret of the war
60,000 involved
Manhattan Project

9. July 26, 1945- US warned Japan that it faced “prompt and utter destruction”
Japan refused to surrender
Decision to Use Bombs

10. August 6, 1945- Enola Gay released Little Boy (atomic bomb) over Hiroshima
Important military center
43 seconds later, blast destroys city
Leaders refused to surrender
Hiroshima

12. August 9, 1945- Fat Man (2nd atomic bomb) dropped on Nagasaki

14. Casualties Hiroshima- 60-80,000 killed instantly
Nagasaki- 40,000 killed instantly
Casualties

16. September 2, 1945- surrender ceremonies took place on US battleship Missouri
V-J Day
Japanese Surrender

17. Truman’s Decision Read the two primary sources
In the text, underline or circle quotes that answer the essential question then answer it in your own words in your notebook.
Why did Truman decide to use atomic force against Japan in August 1945?
Truman’s Decision

18. Japanese War Crimes Why did Japan have to be fought?
For what purpose did the war in Pacific occur?
Japanese actions
Expansion, war crimes
Japanese War Crimes

19. Women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military
Many were from occupied countries
China, Korea, Philippines
Young women were abducted from their homes or lured with promises of work;
Then incarcerated in comfort stations
Comfort Women

20. Experimentation Unit 731- Japanese experimentation unit during WWII
3,000-12,000 people died during human experimentation
Almost 70% of victims were Chinese
Vivisection, germ warfare, weapons testing, etc
Researchers given immunity in exchange for data
Experimentation

21. More than 140,000 white prisoners in Japanese prisoner of war camps.
1/3 died from starvation, work, punishments, diseases
Escape was rare, treatment was brutal
POW Camps

22. Most prisoners worked in mines, fields, shipyards and factories
Lived on a diet of about 600 calories a day.
POW Camps

23. Was it justified? Consider: The potential cost of invading Japan
The loss of life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atrocities being committed by the Japanese military

24. What did the use of atomic force mean for the rest of the world
What did the use of atomic force mean for the rest of the world? What precedent was set?
Would you support the use of atomic force on Japan in 1945?
Do you support it now?
Exit Slip

25. War in Pacific
War in Europe
WWII Timeline