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Japan in WWII-Post Pearl Harbor

FDR’s War Message• Pearl Harbor was not the only area Japan attacked

on December 7• “Yesterday the Japanese Government also

launched an attack against Malaya.”• “Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.” • “Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam.”• “Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine

Islands.” • “Last night the Japanese attacked Wake Island.” • “This morning the Japanese attacked Midway

Island.”

December 7, 1941-Philippines

Japan’s Conquests in 1942

Bataan Death March

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary

Doolittle’s Raid-April, 1942

Battle of Coral Sea

Chester Nimitz

Battle of Midway-June 1942

Guadalcanal-August,1942-February, 1943

Battle of Leyte Gulf-Philippines

MacArthur’s Return to the Philippines

Iwo Jima-February-March, 1945

6,821 US Deaths at Iwo Jima

Raising Flag on Mt. Suribachi

Battle of Okinawa-April-June, 1945

The Manhattan Project

• 1939-1945

General Leslie Groves

J Robert Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer and Groves

Trinity Test-July 16, 1945

Enola Gay

Paul Tibbits

Hiroshima Bombing

• “Little Boy”

Before

After

The Atomic Shadow

Radiation Sickness

Nagasaki Bombing

• “Fat Man”

• Bockscar

Before

After

The Compromises that Ended the War

• Democracy vs Communism

• Start of the Cold War

Yalta Conference

• February, 1945

Yalta ConferenceCompromise-February, 1945

• Germany would be broken into four occupation zones(US, GB, France, USSR)

• Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe

• Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over

• Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the United Nations

Potsdam Conference-July, 1945

Indochina

• temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel

• Japan would surrender to Great Britain in the south and China in the north

Germany

• Goals of the occupation of Germany: demilitarization, denazification, democratization

• Division of Germany(and Berlin) and Austria into four occupation zones

• Prosecution of Nazi war criminals

• Reverse all German annexations in Europe, including Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, and the westernmost parts of Poland

• Reduce Germany in size by approximately 25% compared to its 1937 borders

• Removal of the German populations remaining beyond the new eastern borders of Germany

• Agreement on war reparations to the Soviet Union

• Destruction/Take control of German industries that made war materials

• Poland was recognized as being a communist controlled gov’t

• The Potsdam Declaration: This ultimatum stated that if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction"

Nuremberg Trials

GI Bill of Rights

GI Bill of RightsTo help the members of the Armed Forces adjust to civilian life after

separation from service

To give those who cannot afford a higher education the chance to get one

To restore lost educational opportunities and vocational readjustment

to service members who lost these opportunities as the result of their active military duty

To aid in the retention of personnel in the Armed Forces

To enhance our Nation's competitiveness through the development of a more highly educated and productive work force

Japanese Internment Camps