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WWII Slides 71 - 82

WWII Slides 71 - 82. Victory In Asia. American General Douglas MacArthur had a plan called “island hopping.” Goal to capture important islands from Japan February 1945 US Marines invaded the small Pacific Island of Iwo Jima, Japan. General Holland Smith.

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WWII Slides 71 - 82

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  1. WWII Slides 71 - 82

  2. Victory In Asia • American General Douglas MacArthur had a plan called “island hopping.” • Goal to capture important islands from Japan • February 1945 US Marines invaded the small Pacific Island of Iwo Jima, Japan

  3. General Holland Smith • Called the fighting on Iwo Jima “The toughest the Marines ran across in 168 years (pg. 361).” • After Iwo Jima American forces attacked Japanese island of Okinawa (pg. 361). • Nearly 50,000 Americans were killed or wounded. • Only 350 miles from Japanese mainland.

  4. April 12, 1945 • President Roosevelt suddenly died • Harry S. Truman took office • Truman, “I felt like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me (pg. 361).”

  5. August 6, 1945 • Air Force bomber named Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on city of Hiroshima, Japan. • City completely destroyed • 80,000 people died in just a few seconds • 3 days later a second bomb dropped on Nagasaki • 60,000 people killed

  6. August 14 • Japan surrendered • This was called V-J Day • Victory in Japan • WW II finally over • More than 400,000 American soldiers died in WWII • Now rebuilding begins and fear begins….

  7. The Holocaust pg 362 - 363 • Hitler’s Nazi party had a strict policy of anti-Semitism (hatred of Jews) • Signs stating “Jews Unwelcome” were hung in store windows. • Jewish stores were boycotted by Germans

  8. The Holocaust • Nazis took anti-Semitism to violent extreme – wanted to exterminate Jews • When German forces captured a country, they arrested all the Jews who lived there. • Taken to concentration camps.

  9. Concentration Camps • If you were taken there you had little chance of survival. • Many murdered right away. • Others forced to work as slave labor • These were liberated as they were found by the Allies

  10. Officer William Cowling • “They were dirty, starved skeletons with torn tattered clothes…It is unbelievable how any human can treat others as they were treated (pg. 362).”

  11. Numbers….. • Nazis murdered about 6 MILLION Jews during WWII. • Historians called this they Holocaust • Holocaust – meaning “widespread destruction.” • About 6 million non-Jewish people were also murdered

  12. Anne Frank • Jewish girl who wrote about the Nazis • She was 13 when moved in with Christians to hide • 1944 Germans found her family • She died in a concentration camp • Later diary found that told of the Germans

  13. Excerpt from Diary • “Believe me, if you had been shut up for a year and a half, it can get too much for you some days…Cycling, dancing, whistling, looking out into the world, feeling young, to know that I’m free – that’s what I long for (pg 363).”

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