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World War II

World War II. Modified by: Teddi Baker East Jessamine High School. The Pacific Theater. The Code Breakers of WW II. Only code from WWII not broken by the other side – Navajo ‘Code talkers”. Pacific Theater of Operations. “Tokyo Rose”. Paying for the War. Paying for the War.

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World War II

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  1. World War II Modified by: Teddi Baker East Jessamine High School

  2. The Pacific Theater

  3. The Code Breakers of WW II Only code from WWII not broken by the other side – Navajo ‘Code talkers”

  4. Pacific Theater of Operations

  5. “Tokyo Rose”

  6. Paying for the War

  7. Paying for the War

  8. Paying for the War

  9. Betty Grable: Allied Pinup GirlShe Reminded Men What They Were Fighting For

  10. U.S. Surrenders at Corregidor,the Philippines [March, 1942]

  11. Bataan Death March: April, 1942 76,000 prisoners [12,000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.

  12. Bataan: British Soldiers A Liberated British POW

  13. The Burma Campaign General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942 The “Burma Road”

  14. Allied Counter-Offensive:“Island-Hopping”

  15. Allied Counter-Offensive:“Island-Hopping” Allied strategy for gaining control of the Pacific – seize key islands that were essential for airstrips to support bombers and fighter planes on attacks on Japan “hopping” over other Japanese-held islands.

  16. “Island-Hopping”: US Troops on Kwajalien Island

  17. Farthest Extent of Japanese Conquests

  18. Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle:First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, 1942

  19. Battle of the Coral Sea:May 7-8, 1942

  20. Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942

  21. Battle of Midway Island:June 4-6, 1942

  22. Japanese Kamikaze Planes:The Scourge of the South Pacific Kamikaze Pilots Suicide Bombers

  23. Gen. MacArthur “Returns” to the Philippines! [1944]

  24. US Marines on Mt. Surbachi,Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]

  25. US Marines on Mt. Surbachi,Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945] • The battle was the first American attack on the Japanese Home Islands and the Imperial soldiers defended their positions tenaciously. • Iwo Jima was also the only U.S. Marine battle where the American overall casualties exceeded the Japanese,although Japanese combat deaths numbered three times that of Americans. • Of the more than 18,000 Japanese soldiers present at the beginning of the battle, only 216 were taken prisoner.The rest were killed or missing and assumed dead.[1] • Despite heavy fighting and casualties on both sides, Japanese defeat was assured from the start. The Americans possessed an overwhelming superiority in arms and numbers; this, coupled with the impossibility of Japanese retreat or reinforcement, ensured that there was no plausible scenario in which the U.S. could have lost the battle. • The Americans suffered 6,821 deaths out of 26,038 total casualties. The number of U.S. casualties was greater than the total Allied casualties on D-Day.

  26. Battle of Okinawa April – June 1945

  27. Battle of Okinawa April – June 1945 The battle resulted in one of the highest number of casualties of any World War II engagement. Japan lost over 100,000 troops killed or captured, and the Allies suffered more than 50,000 casualties of all kinds. Simultaneously, tens of thousands of local civilians were killed, wounded, or committed suicide.

  28. April 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrage less than 3 months after his inauguration for his 4th term. Harry Truman became the President of the United States. Winston Churchill is loses his role as Prime Minister of Great Britain and Clement Atlee takes his place.

  29. Potsdam Conference:July, 1945 • FDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference. • Stalin only original. • The United States has the A-bomb. • Allies agree Germany is to be divided into occupation zones • Poland moved around to suit the Soviets. P.M. Clement President Joseph Atlee Truman Stalin

  30. The Manhattan Project:Los Alamos, NM I am become death, the shatterer of worlds! Major GeneralLesley R. Groves Dr. Robert Oppenheimer

  31. Tinian Island, 1945 Little Boy Fat Man Enola Gay Crew

  32. Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

  33. Hiroshima – August 6, 1945 • 70,000 killed immediately. • 48,000 buildings. destroyed. • 100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

  34. The Beginning of theAtomic Age

  35. Nagasaki – August 9, 1945 • 40,000 killed immediately. • 60,000 injured. • 100,000s died ofradiation poisoning& cancer later.

  36. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

  37. Hiroshima Memorials

  38. V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

  39. Japanese POWs, Guam

  40. V-J Day in Times Square,NYC

  41. Results of World War II

  42. WW II Casualties: Europe Each symbol indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of operations

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