The Atomic Bomb Peace Treaty Holocaust

1. The Atomic BombPeace TreatyHolocaust Miss Fisk

2. The Manhattan Project • Code name for the U.S. Governments secret project for the development of the atom bomb.

3. Dropping the Bomb • Little Boy- bomb dropped on Hiroshima • Fat Man- bomb dropped on Nagasaki

4. Dropping the Bomb Option 1 • Don’t drop Japan is close to surrendering anyway. • Allow the Japanese Emperor to remain in power. Option 2 • Drop the bomb on an Island near Japan to show the power of the possibility and hope they surrender Option 3 • Invade the Japanese mainland with extreme force Option 4 • Drop the bomb if all else fails

5. Dropping the Bomb Pros Cons Mass destruction of life What if it doesn’t work Would this forever destroy relations with Japan • Removing obstacles to Japan’s surrender will produce a speedy end to the war and thousands of American lives. • Allowing the Japanese to give up without betraying their emperor will prevent the deaths of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Japanese civilians and will make them more willing to cooperate with U.S. occupation forces after the war.

6. Why drop an atom bomb and not just heavily bomb the area? • Why drop two bombs? Why not just one? • Was the bomb dropped meant to order Japan’s surrender or another reason? • Was the bomb dropped to show Russia our power. Why not test the bomb on a deserted island to just show the bombs power and hope that Japan would surrender.

8. Little Boy- Hiroshima

10. Fat Man- Nagasaki

16. Peace Treaty Conferences

17. Paris Peace Treaty • United States, Britain, France and Russia signed several treaties with: Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland • These Treaties consisted of these countries to reassume responsibilities of sovereign countries and qualify for membership in the United Nations • War Reparations, Minority rights, territorial adjustments

18. Peace Conferences • Yalta-Post war reorganization of Europe, reestablishment of nations in Europe • Potsdam – Peace conference- most decisions were concerning Germany and its treatment after the war • Potsdam declaration: the terms of surrender of Japan

19. $360,000,000 from Italy: • $125,000,000 to Yugoslavia; • $105,000,000 to Greece ; • $100,000,000 to the Soviet Union; • $25,000,000 to Ethiopia • $5,000,000 to Albania. • $300,000,000 from Finland to the Soviet Union; • $300,000,000 from Hungary: • $200,000,000 to the Soviet Union; • $100,000,000 to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. • $300,000,000 from Romania to the Soviet Union; • $70,000,000 from Bulgaria: • $45,000,000 to Greece; • $25,000,000 to Yugoslavia.

21. Holocaust

25. Holocaust • Six million Jews would lose their lives in the Holocaust • Germans were a superior race in Europe, the Jews were an alien race thought to be a threat to the German superior way of life • Final Solution- two out of every three Iews were killed in this period of time • First phase was placing Jewish population in Ghettos

28. Victory in EuropeVictory in Japan • V-E Day • April 30 1945- Hitler commits suicide during the battle of Berlin • May 8 1945-Hitler’s replacement authorizes the unconditional surrender of the German army • V-J Day • September 2 1945- official ceremony performed signing the surrender

33. Japanese representatives aboard the U.S.S. Missouri where the surrender took place

35. Nuremburg Trials • Nazi officials are placed on trial for their role in the Holocaust • 24 men were placed on trial • 7 men were sentenced to varying lengths of prison • 12 men were sentenced to death • 3 men were acquitted • 1 committed suicide before the trials began • 1 was tried in a separate trial, but deemed unfit for trial and died in prison