1. World War II Part II For 2,000 years Japan had never been defeated.
There was no word for "surrender" in the Japanese dictionary.
And although the Japanese government never believed it could defeat the United States, it did intend to negotiate an end to the war on favorable terms

2. War in the Pacific Rape of Nanking
The Nanking Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanking, was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Nanking (China)
1937
Historians and witnesses have estimated that 250,000 to 300,000 people were killed.

3. War in the Pacific
Japanese Empire – 1942

4. War in the Pacific Battle of Midway
The Japanese fleet was taken by surprise
by the American planes
Forced the Japanese to assume a defensive strategy
Midway is roughly equidistant between North America and Asia

5. winning territory from Japan
“Island Hopping”
winning territory from Japan

7. Nearing Japan Iwo Jima (March 1945) Okinawa (April 1945)
Crucial for invading Japan
75,000 American casualties

8. The Manhattan Project Atomic bomb
Albert Einstein
prompted FDR to build the weapon
J. Robert Oppenheimer
scientist in charge of the project

9. What would you do?
Soviet Union approaching from the West
Japan would not surrender
Fighting on Mainland Japan might cost One Million American lives.

10. Nagasaki In order to save American lives,
Harry Truman decided to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima
More than 60,000 dead from blast
Nagasaki
More than 35,000 dead from blast

11. surrendered to the Allies in August 1945
Emperor Hirohito
surrendered to the Allies in August 1945
V-J Day

12. WW II Only two “Winners”
United States:
A – Bomb meant U.S. stood alone in Power
Soviet Union:
Emerged as a great power
Helped found the United Nations