2. The End of WWII Different Circumstances for Each Front USS Missouri

3. The Loss of a President FDR does not get to see WWII end Dies of a stroke April 12, 1945 Harry S. Truman becomes President that night Hey Truman… have you heard of the Manhattan Project?

4. Germans are Going Down! Battle of the Bulge: last German offensive Allies liberating the Nazi death camps Hitler and his wife commit suicide V-E (Victory in Europe) Day: May 8, 1945, Germans surrender

5. FDR’s Funeral Procession

6. The Manhattan Project Gen. Leslie Groves and scientist Robert Oppenheimer lead the development of the Atomic Bomb 1st test: July 16, 1945 in Alamogordo, NM. Melted quartz with traces of olivine and feldspar trinitite

7. Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan Aug. 6, 1945: “Little Boy” is dropped on Hiroshima –Japan refuses to surrender Aug. 9, 1945: “Fat Man” is dropped on Nagasaki August 15, 1945 Japan surrenders Emperor Hirohito surrenders formally on Sept. 2, 1945 aboard USS Missouri

8. Adm. Nimitz signs on behalf of U.S. Emperor Hirohito signs on behalf of Japan Surrender on USS Missouri

11. Devastation Within 5 months, over 200,000 Japanese died “They say temperatures of 7,000 degrees centigrade hit me… Nobody there looked like human beings…People with their legs wrenched off. Without heads. Or with faces burned and swollen out of shape. The scene I saw was a living hell.” -Yamaoka Michiko