1. Meanwhile…..In the Pacific Theater

2. Battle of Leyte Gulf Japan tries to destroy entire American Fleet
Backfired – lost their entire fleet instead
US forces land on Philippines
First use of Kamikazes

3. Kamikaze Means “Divine Wind” Suicide attacks
Over 40 ships sunk by Kamikazes at Battle of Leyte Gulf
Psychological attack

5. Battle Of Iwo Jima Key island – provide airbases to bomb Japan
Feb. – March – 1945
18,000 Japanese soldiers present at battle
Only 216 taken prisoner
Americans killed – (6800)
Greater than total on D-Day

7. Battle Of Okinawa Largest amphibious assault – Pacific Theater
April – June 1945
110,000 Japanese soldiers killed
34 U.S. ships destroyed by Kamikazes
U.S.
12,000 dead
36,000 wounded
Last major campaign of Pacific War.

9. Firebombing of Tokyo March 9-10, 1945 300 American planes
½ million incendiary bombs dropped
100,000 die in ONE night
Goal: destroy Japanese morale

10. Manhattan Project Atomic bomb project – U.S. Robert Oppenheimer
Trinity Test – first ever successful atomic bomb
Birth of the Atomic Age
2 bombs
Fat Man - Nagasaki
Little Boy - Hiroshima

12. Hiroshima
August 6, 1945
B-29 “Superfortres” Enola Gay drops 1st atomic bomb in history
Destroyed about 70% of the city
80,000 people killed
Japanese = no surrender

13. Picture of Hiroshima after the dropping of the first ever atomic bomb

14. Nagasaki August 9, 1945 B-29 Super fortress Bockscar 75,000 killed
Hundreds of thousands dies from after effects
Japanese agree to surrender

15. Nagasaki and the damage from the atomic bomb dropped on the city.

17. Location of the cities

18. Japanese Surrender September 2, 1945 Tokyo Bay, Japan USS Missouri
Japanese surrender to Gen MacArthur
End of WWII
VJ Day – Victory in Japan