WWII: The War in the Pacific Ends

1. WWII: The War in the Pacific Ends

2. Admiral Yamamoto

3. Pearl Harbor from Cockpit of Japanese Pilot

4. Pearl Harbor: Dec 7th 1941

5. The Battle of Midway • The Battle of Midway turned the tide of WWII in the Pacific. • The Japanese were forced to be on the defensive. • General MacArthur: “Hit ‘em where they ain’t, let ‘em die on the vine.” He began his island hopping strategy.

6. General MacArthur

7. Iwo Jima

8. Iwo Jima and other Pacific Battles • Guadalcanal (1943) • Leyte Gulf (1944) • Iwo Jima (1945) • All battles were bloody on both sides. Although the Japanese lost more men, they refused to surrender. The U.S. continued to make their way towards Japan.

9. American View of Japanese

10. American View of Japanese • After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were seen as the enemy. • Encouraged by government propaganda, even Japanese Americans (that were U.S. citizens and were American born) were viewed as enemies.

11. Japanese American Internment • Roosevelt issues the Executive Order 9066: Internment of Japanese and property loss of Japanese. • From 1941-1946, over 31,000 Japanese/Japanese Americans were interned in 16 locations. Most of them lost their property as well. • 2/3 of those interned were American citizens.

12. Japanese Internment

13. Potsdam Conference • The Potsdam Declaration was created by Truman, Stalin, and Churchill and called for the surrender of Japan. • It outlined the terms of surrender for Japan. The agreement stated that if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction". • Japan ignored the ultimatum.

14. The U.S. Drops the Atomic Bomb • On August 6, 1945 the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, a Japanese city of over 350,000 people. 73,000 people were killed. • On August 9, 1945 a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 37,500 people were killed. • 100,000’s died of radiation poisoning and cancer • Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945.

15. The Manhattan Project • Dr. Robert Oppenheimer • “I have become death • the shatters of worlds” death, the shatterer of worlds!

16. Little Boy and Fat Man

17. Atomic Bomb

18. Hiroshima

19. How should the atomic bombs have been used to end the war against Japan?(Fortune Magazine, 1945)

20. The Effects of the Defeat on Japan • MacArthur takes charge of the U.S. occupation of Japan. • Japan must demilitarize. • Many leaders were charged as war criminals. • The U.S. sets up Japan’s democracy. • Hirohito had to declare that he was not a god—he became a figurehead.

21. WWII Casualties: Europe

22. WWII Casualties in Asia