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Please do not talk at this timeSept 30 HW: WWII Test on Tuesday. I will collect the following on Tuesday: Pg.22A: Blitzkrieg DBQ Pg. 27A: Churchill Speech Pg 29A- WWII European Front Map Pg. 30A Video Notes Chart Pg. 31A- Stalingrad DBQ Pg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon Analysis Pg. 33A- Pacific War Notes
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Please get out a piece of paper and Label it: Pg. 33A- Pacific War in WWII You may set up your notes any way you want to.
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1911 1931 1937 1940 1942
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Hawaii! Territory taken from the US by Japan
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Pearl Harbor Attacked - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy! Japan wanted the natural resources like tin, iron and gasoline that the Americans had stopped selling them when the USA found out about what was happening in China. Japan saw American neutrality as a sign of weakness. They believed America would give up right away if attacked brutally enough.
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Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot
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USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor The only American ships to survive the attack untouched were looking for the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. Japan had reason to think the Americans could be intimidated into staying out of the War. Americans were not known for their great military prowess. Most people thought they chose not to fight because they weren’t any good at it.
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President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War BSQ: Why were the Japanese so surprised that the USA declared war on them?
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Comparing Naval Power WarshipsU.S. FleetJapanese Fleet Battleships810 Carriers311 Cruisers2440 Destroyers90112 Submarines5663
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The Battle of Midway! First Big battle between the US and Japan after Pearl Harbor
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Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping” Take only the lightly defended islands and skip the rest. Japan still has to spend soldiers and supplies on the others. Test Question Alert!
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US Marines on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945] Iwo Jima is striking distance from Japan. Americans can easily fly bombing missions to Japan’s civilian centers from here. ASQ: What advantage would attacking Japanese civilians give the Americans? Think strategically and emotionally.
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Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb Why does this man look so cheerful?
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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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Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 40,000 killed immediately. 60,000 injured. 100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.
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V-J Day (September 2, 1945) Japan surrenders MacArthur and others help write the new Japanese Constitution US forces the Emperor of Japan to tell his people he is not a God and not descended of the Gods. Japan is on its own. No “Divine Wind” will save her. What psychological effect are the Americans trying to have on the Japanese people by making them surrender this way? Why?
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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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Financial Cost of WWII U.S.$288,000,000,000 Germany$212,336,000,000 France$111,272,000,000 U.S.S.R.$93,012,000,000 Britain $49,786,000,000 Japan $41,272,000,000 Direct economic costs of WWII $1,600,000,000,000
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The Nuremberg War Trials: Crimes Against Humanity Nazis are put on trial for the new crime of “Crimes against Humanity” All but one Nazi leader swear they were in the right until the bitter end.
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Japanese War Crimes Trials General Hideki Tojo Japanese military is also put on trial in Tokyo. Very few Japanese military leaders are convicted, though ample evidence of atrocities in Burma, Philippines and China are documented and presented. Japanese later deny all these claims and remove them from their history books.
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Please do not talk at this timeOct 1 HW: NO HW Please staple the following and turn them in to the Turn In Box: Pg. 27A: Churchill Speech Pg.22A: Blitzkrieg DBQ Pg 29A- WWII European Front Map Pg. 30A Video Notes Chart Pg. 31A- Stalingrad DBQ Pg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon Analysis Pg. 33A- Pacific War Notes
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WWII Test Take out a pencil and a piece of binder paper. You will be taking a multiple Choice test for questions 1 – The last couple of questions are short answer. When you are done, bring your test to the front of the room and work quietly on something else.
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Index so far Pg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon Analysis Pg. 33A- Pacific War Notes
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