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The Code Breakers of WW II Only code from WWII not broken by the other side – Navajo ‘Code talkers”
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Pacific Theater of Operations
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“Tokyo Rose”
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Paying for the War
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Betty Grable: Allied Pinup Girl She Reminded Men What They Were Fighting For
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U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor, the Philippines [March, 1942]
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Bataan Death March : April, 1942 76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.
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Bataan: British Soldiers A Liberated British POW
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The Burma Campaign The “Burma Road” General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942
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Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”
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Allied strategy for gaining control of the Pacific – seize key islands that were essential for airstrips to support bombers and fighter planes on attacks on Japan “hopping” over other Japanese-held islands.
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“Island-Hopping”: US Troops on Kwajalien Island
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Farthest Extent of Japanese Conquests
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Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942
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Battle of the Coral Sea: May 7-8, 1942
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Battle of Midway Island: June 4-6, 1942
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Japanese Kamikaze Planes: The Scourge of the South Pacific Kamikaze Pilots Suicide Bombers
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Gen. MacArthur “Returns” to the Philippines! [1944]
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US Marines on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]
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The battle was the first American attack on the Japanese Home Islands and the Imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously. Iwo Jima was also the only U.S. Marine battle where the American overall casualties exceeded the Japanese, although Japanese combat deaths numbered three times that of Americans. Of the more than 18,000 Japanese soldiers present at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner. The rest were killed or missing and assumed dead. [1] [1] Despite heavy fighting and casualties on both sides, Japanese defeat was assured from the start. The Americans possessed an overwhelming superiority in arms and numbers; this, coupled with the impossibility of Japanese retreat or reinforcement, ensured that there was no plausible scenario in which the U.S. could have lost the battle. The Americans suffered 6,821 deaths out of 26,038 total casualties. The number of U.S. casualties was greater than the total Allied casualties on D-Day.
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Battle of Okinawa April – June 1945 Battle of Okinawa April – June 1945
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Battle of Okinawa April – June 1945 Battle of Okinawa April – June 1945 The battle resulted in one of the highest number of casualties of any World War II engagement. Japan lost over 100,000 troops killed or captured, and the Allies suffered more than 50,000 casualties of all kinds. Simultaneously, tens of thousands of local civilians were killed, wounded, or committed suicide.
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April 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrage less than 3 months after his inauguration for his 4 th term. Harry Truman became the President of the United States. Winston Churchill is loses his role as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Clement Atlee takes his place.
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Potsdam Conference: July, 1945 yFDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference. yStalin only original. yThe United States has the A-bomb. yAllies agree Germany is to be divided into occupation zones yPoland moved around to suit the Soviets. P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin
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The Manhattan Project: Los Alamos, NM Dr. Robert Oppenheimer I am become death, the shatterer of worlds! Major General Lesley R. Groves
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Tinian Island, 1945 Little Boy Fat Man Enola Gay Crew
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Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb
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Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 ©70,000 killed immediately. ©48,000 buildings. destroyed. ©100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.
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The Beginning of the Atomic Age
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Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 ©40,000 killed immediately. ©60,000 injured. ©100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.
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Japanese A-Bomb Survivors
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Hiroshima Memorials
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V-J Day (September 2, 1945)
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Japanese POWs, Guam
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V-J Day in Times Square, NYC
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WW II Casualties: Europe Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations
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WW II Casualties: Asia Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations
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WW II Casualties Country Men in war Battle deaths Wounded Australia1,000,00026,976180,864 Austria800,000280,000350,117 Belgium625,0008,460 55,513 1 Brazil 2 40,3349434,222 Bulgaria339,7606,67121,878 Canada 1,086,343 7 42,042 7 53,145 China 3 17,250,5211,324,5161,762,006 Czechoslovakia— 6,683 4 8,017 Denmark—4,339— Finland500,00079,04750,000 France—201,568400,000 Germany20,000,000 3,250,000 4 7,250,000 Greece—17,02447,290 Hungary—147,43589,313 India2,393,89132,12164,354 Italy3,100,000 149,496 4 66,716 Japan9,700,0001,270,000140,000 Netherlands280,0006,5002,860 New Zealand 194,000 11,625 4 17,000 Norway75,0002,000— Poland—664,000530,000 Romania 650,000 5 350,000 6 — South Africa 410,0562,473— U.S.S.R.— 6,115,000 4 14,012,000 United Kingdom 5,896,000 357,116 4 369,267 United States 16,112,566291,557670,846 Yugoslavia3,741,000305,000425,000 1.Civilians only. 2.Army and navy figures. 3.Figures cover period July 7, 1937 to Sept. 2, 1945, and concern only Chinese regular troops. They do not include casualties suffered by guerrillas and local military corps. 4.Deaths from all causes. 5.Against Soviet Russia; 385,847 against Nazi Germany. 6.Against Soviet Russia; 169,822 against Nazi Germany. 7.National Defense Ctr., Canadian Forces Hq., Director of History.
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Massive Human Dislocations
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The U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Emerged as the Two Superpowers of the later 20 c
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The Bi-Polarization of Europe: The Beginning of the Cold War
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The Division of Germany: 1945 - 1990
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The Creation of the U. N.
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The Nuremberg War Trials: Crimes Against Humanity
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Japanese War Crimes Trials General Hideki Tojo Bio-Chemical Experiments
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7 Future American Presidents Served in World War II
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The Race for Space
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Early Computer Technology Came Out of WW II Mark I, 1944 Admiral Grace Hooper, 1944-1992 COBOL language Colossus, 1941
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The Emergence of Third World Nationalist Movements
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The De-Colonization of European Empires
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Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
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Crematoria at Majdanek Entrance to Auschwitz: Work Makes You Free Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed
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Slave Labor at Buchenwald Eli Wiesel
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Horrors of the Holocaust Exposed Mass Graves at Bergen-Belsen
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