1. What was the US plan for ending the Pacific War?
The Manhattan Project
What was the US plan for ending the Pacific War?

2. Did Japan commit war crimes during WWII?
YES!
Rape of Nanking (300,000 civilians killed)
NO!
YES!
Pearl Harbor (2,300 military killed)
Bataan Death March (1,600 POWS die)

4. Developing the A-Bomb
When US learns Nazis were trying to develop an A-bomb, FDR authorizes a secret plan called Manhattan Project to build an A-bomb
Project led by Gen. Leslie R. Groves & physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and developed at Los Alamos Ntl Lab in New Mexico
New weapon could release more energy than 20,000 tons of TNT
First bomb called Gadget was tested in a controlled explosion “Trinity Test”
Trinity Test

6. Second bomb was named “Little Boy”
August 6, 1945: a plane named the Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on the city of Hiroshima, Japan
Japan doesn’t surrender. Three days later, a plane named Bockscar dropped the third bomb named “Fat Man” on Nagasaki, Japan
Japan surrenders on August 14th, 1945

7. Hiroshima & Nagasaki video questions
Why does Truman want to use the Atomic Bomb?
Why was Hiroshima chosen?
How did Japan react to the dropping of the bomb?
What is instantly destroyed in Nagasaki?
What is Truman hoping for and why?