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What were the two turning points of the war?
How was the German Army defeated in the Soviet Union?
What was the Normandy Invasion?Which countries made up the “Big Three”?
What is appeasement?
EQ: (1) How did the atomic bomb affect the outcome of the war? (2) Was it justified?
Background: War in the Pacific
Mainly the U.S. vs JapanAfter Pearl Harbor, US’s strategy is “island hopping” Take over Japanese held islands and move closer to the country of Japan
U.S. soldier describes islands in the Pacific
“Hell was furry red spiders as big as your fist, giant lizards as long as your leg, leeches falling from the trees to suck your blood, armies of white ants with bites of fire, scurrying scorpions inflaming any flesh they touched, enormous rats and bats everywhere, and rivers with waiting crocodiles. Hell was the foul smelling, humid jungle that entrapped its occupants.”
Japanese get Desperate
Use Kamikaze (“divine wind”) – suicide pilots would crash into the enemy
Tell troops to fight to the death
Death toll increases on both sides
Manhattan Project
Top secret project to design a new powerful weapon: an atomic bomb
Headed by J. R. Oppenheimer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgdBI31-lo
Dropping the Atomic Bombs
After bloody battles, U.S. chooses to use its atomic bombs against Japan
Otherwise the U.S. would have to invade Japan
Atomic Bombs are dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t19kvUi
HvAE “Little Boy” and “Fat Man” were the
codenames for the bombs Equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT
Aftermath
110,000 – 120,000 die instantly in the two citiesThousands more from radiation
Japan surrenders on September 2, 1945
The world enters the “Nuclear Age”US emerges as world’s first superpower