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Do Now:. Why was the atomic bomb created? When was it used? HOMEWORK: WWII TEST TUESDAY- REVIEW DUE TUESDAY. ATOMIC BOMB. Roosevelt passes away; Truman takes the Presidency. Battle of Okinawa. Okinawa= Japan’s last defensive post.

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  1. Do Now: • Why was the atomic bomb created? • When was it used? • HOMEWORK: WWII TEST TUESDAY- REVIEW DUE TUESDAY

  2. ATOMIC BOMB

  3. Roosevelt passes away; Truman takes the Presidency

  4. Battle of Okinawa • Okinawa= Japan’s last defensive post. • Why was Okinawa a significant island in the war in the Pacific?

  5. Manhattan Project • War Secret • Making of Atomic Bomb. • This could change the face of the war. • What effect might this have on the world at that time and in the future?

  6. 2 offices: • 1 Builds the chemical base. • 2 headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer to build the actual bomb. • Bomb was tested at Alamogordo, New Mexico July 16, 1945. • “The bomb not only worked, but it was more powerful than most had dared hope.”

  7. What to do with this weapon? • A meeting with Interim Committee. • Several concerns: • 1. nothing less than dropping bomb on city would get the Japanese to surrender. • 2. Japanese might shoot down the plane. • 3. the bombs affects were questioned.

  8. The committee thought that it should be dropped on Japan and with no warning.

  9. What were the main arguments for and against dropping the atomic bomb on Japanese cities in 1945?

  10. Truman drops the bomb. • 2 atomic bombs are dropped: • Hiroshima • Nagasaki • August 6th- Little Boy-Hiroshima=important military center. • August 9th- Fat Man- Nagasaki=civilian city

  11. Devastation ends the war • Japan surrendered. • September 2nd a formal surrender ceremony was held.“The skies no longer rain death- the seas bear only commerce-men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace.”

  12. Do Now: (you wrote down these questions yesterday, answer them today) • Was the use of the atomic bomb on Japan justified? • How had the creation affected the world long term? • HOMEWORK: WORK ON REVIEW- DUE TUESDAY; WWII TEST TUESDAY STUDY STUDY STUDY

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