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Victory in Europe and the Pacific
Ch 14 Sec 4
Battle of the Bulge Last Major German
offensive of the war December 16, 1944 in
the Ardennes Forest
(N. France/Belgium)
Link Edge of the Abyss 44:00
Poll: Last major German offensive of the war?
Poll: The Bulge was high ground.
Battle of the Bulge
Eventually the attack fails due to lack of troops and supplies.
Ensured that the Soviets would reach Berlin first
Poll: The battle of the bulge ensures that the...
Hitler’s Downfall As the Soviets enter Berlin in
April 1945… Hitler marries Eva Braun Two days later commits
suicide His body is burned afterwards
The German army surrenders May 7th, 1945.
May 8th, 1945 known as VE day
Link End Game 44:00
War in the Pacific still going on!
Poll: What ultimately happens to Hitler?
Poll: German Surrender.
Main Factor in the defeat of the Axis…
The allies had a productive capacity 2x the axis
Underestimating the Soviet Union Having to fight on multiple fronts Resources for Germany became scarce
Poll: Productive capactiy of the alleis.
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Battle of Midway (June 1942) Japanese fleet is
destroyed by American air force (including battleships and aircraft carriers)
An important turning point for U.S.!
U.S. begins taking back islands in the Pacific.
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3 carriers, ~15 support ships, 233 carrier aircraft, 127 land-based
aircraft 1 carrier sunk, 1 destroyer sunk, 98 aircraft destroyed, 307 killed
4 carriers, 2 battleships, ~15 support ships, 248 carrier aircraft, 16
floatplanes 4 carriers sunk, 1 cruiser sunk, 248 carrier aircraft
destroyed, 3,057 killed
Battle for Midway Island If won,
Japanese could have bombed Hawaii from here.
Major turning point-defeat of Japanese fleet.
Link 8:42 Link 18:08
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The Japanese Shinano.
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Mighty Japanese battleships are pounded to pieces by US carrier planes. They are obsolete.
Poll: Battle that was the turning point in the...
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Island Hopping: the practice of landing on one island, defeating its forces, then quickly moving on to the next
strategic target.
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1. Bomb
2. Invade
3. Build an airfield to bomb the next island
How to Island Hop with General Douglas MacArthur:
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The USS IOWA.
Battleships found a new role in bombarding
Japanese held island defenses.
Battle for Iwo Jima
Dead at Iwo Jima: 6,800 US 20,000 Japanese.
This flag raising was a serious morale boost to soldiers on the island.
Link 19:07
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Iwo Jima
The island where the film ‘flags of our fathers’ was set.
Horrendous casualties on both sides
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Mt. Suribachi
Island Hopping on Iwo Jima
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1. Bomb: 74 days in a row
Island Hopping on Iwo Jima
3. Build an airfield: Already there, used for bombers and fighters to destroy Japanese cities.
2. Invade: 110,000 US vs. 22,000 Japanese
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Iwo Jima Casualties
6,821 US Dead
20,000 US Wounded
Nearly all 22,000 Japanese fought to the death.
Poll: Famous flag raising picture.
Kamikaze – “Divine Wind”
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Poll: Kamikaze means...
•Suicide pilots
•Would try to crash into American ships
•The Japanese would rather fight to the death than surrender.
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US ships ablaze after kamikaze attacks
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A ‘Kaiten’-or suicide torpedo.
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Attacking Okinawa island.
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Okinawa Island - May 1945
This island is within bomber range of Japan. If it falls Japan will, at last, be vulnerable.
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Okinawa Facts
500,000 Civilians living there before the battle
150,000 Civilians killed during the ugly battle
97,000 Japanese soldiers before the battle
7,000 Japanese soldiers survived the battle
Hundreds of Japanese “Kamikaze” pilots trained to pilots crash into US Navy boats, killing 5,000
Americans
US invasion force of 200,000 soldiers
US casualties, 12,513 dead, 55,000 wounded
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Japan retreats.
Japan withdrew all forces from the Pacific and from the mainland.
So widely scattered were soldiers, and so dedicated were they to their cause, that old soldiers were still coming out of hiding in 1972!
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The ‘Ohka’
This is an unused Japanese suicide rocket bomb found on Okinawa. There were no more Japanese planes to launch it.
The Manhattan Project
Code name for the A-Bomb program
Led by Robert Oppenheimer
First detonation Alamagordo NM, July 1945
Ushers in the Nuclear Age
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Poll: The Mahnattan Project designed the...
Poll: The first atomic detonation was at...
Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945
Faced with a casualty estimate of a million, Truman authorizes use of the A-Bomb against Japan.
Hiroshima Aug. 6, 1945Nagasaki Aug. 9, 1955
Poll: First atomic bomb was dropped on..
This plane dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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The first Atomic bomb to be used in war… ‘little boy’.
This bomb was shipped from the US a mere 4 hours after the ‘Trinity’ A-bomb test in the US.
The actual radioactive material inside was the size of an orange.
The Atomic Bomb
Atomic bomb – “little boy”
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The USS Indianapolis
Delivered the first atomic bomb to the US air force in Tinian. July 30 1945 sunk by Japanese submarine off the Philippines on the way
home. Because of her ‘special mission’ her journey was ‘secret’. Of 1200 crew, 900 survived the sinking only to find themselves at sea
with no rescuers even looking for them. Sharks were quickly attracted and after 4 days only 300 men were left,
mostly terrified out of their minds. It was the worst US Navy disaster in history.
Victims in Hiroshima
Why drop the Atomic Bomb?
The Japanese had shown they would fight to the last man, woman and child.
The atomic bomb saved as many as 1 million U.S. lives, and many more Japanese.
Harry Truman said he dropped the bomb to end the war.
Poll: The atomic bomb probably saved lives.
Poll: President who authorized the bomb drop.
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The Japanese surrender party onboard a US battleship in Tokyo Bay 15.9.1945.They are ‘enduring the unendurable’ at the Emperor’s request. The Emperor finally concedes that Japan cannot face US technology and survive.
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Over Tokyo Bay.
Japan surrenders 1945
VJ day Aug. 14, 1945 Formal Surrender
Sept 2, 1945 Even after the A-
bombs some Japanese wanted to continue to fight.
Emperor Hirohito intervened
Poll: Japanese surrender.
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