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Victory In the Pacific

Victory In the Pacific. Island hopping (leapfrogging) American strategy in the pacific By pass heavily fortified Japanese controlled islands. Navajo Code Talkers Native Americans who helped US military create codes using their language. Not written. Many were from Arizona

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Victory In the Pacific

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  1. Victory In the Pacific • Island hopping (leapfrogging) • American strategy in the pacific • By pass heavily fortified Japanese controlled islands

  2. Navajo Code Talkers • Native Americans who helped US military create codes using their language. • Not written. • Many were from Arizona • Very successful, Japanese never broke the code.

  3. Your Turn! • BE-LA-SANA / GAH / NA-AS-TSO-SI / TSAH-AS-ZIH • ARMY

  4. Bushido • Japanese samurai code of conduct.

  5. Kamikaze • Suicide attacks by Japanese pilots • Means “divine wind” • Began in 1944

  6. Iwo Jima • Lasted 5 weeks (Feb-Mar 1945) • 1st attack on home islands in Japan. • Became very famous for photograph raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi.

  7. Okinawa • Bloodiest battle of WWII • American attack on a heavily populated Japanese Home Island (450,000 inhabitants) • April-June 1945

  8. 18,000 US men died at both Iwo Jima and Okinawa • Japanese deaths exceeded 120,000

  9. Prezi Activity

  10. Manhattan Project • US project to research and build the first Atomic bomb. • Albert Einstein writes letter to FDR • Warns about Hitler creating one. • Los Alamos, NM

  11. Top Secret Project • Vice-President Truman did not know about it.

  12. July 16, 1945 • The atomic bomb is tested in Alamogordo, NM. • Truman asks Japan for unconditional surrender • Prompt and utter destruction” would come to Japan if they didn’t surrender.

  13. 1st bomb dropped on Hiroshima • August 6, 1945

  14. 2nd bomb dropped at Nagasaki • August 9, 1945 • More than 50,000 people were killed

  15. V-J day • Victory over Japan Day • August 14/15 1945

  16. The Aftermath • War Crime Trials • Nuremberg Trials • Prosecuted Nazi leaders • Many were sentenced to death or given prison time. • Nuremburg Trials

  17. Japan • International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) • Military trials were held by the allies • Prosecuted many Japanese leaders • Many sentenced to death. Tojo

  18. Emperor Hirohito • Was not prosecuted • Continued as Japanese Emperor until 1989

  19. The United Nations • Replaced the League of Nations • International peacekeeping organization • Created at the end of World War II

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