1. The Asian Theater

    1. Beginning in 1943 US forces went on the offensive and advanced across the Pacific

      1. US Pres. Roosevelt died in April 1945 and Harry S Truman became the new president of the United States in 1945

      2. Harry S Truman had to decide if the US was going to use atomic weapons to bring an end to the war

      3. They were going to use the bomb because Truman was convinced that American troops would suffer mass casualties if the US invaded Japan

      4. Only two bombs were available no one knew how effective they would be

    2. Truman decided to use the atomic bombs

      1. The first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima Japan on August 6, 1945

      2. the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945

      3. both Hiroshima and not the sake were leveled and thousands of people died immediately after the bomb dropped thousands more died in later months from radiation poisoning

    3. Japan surrendered August 14, 1945

      1. World War II was finally over 17 million people had died in battle, 20 million civilians had died as well.

      2. Some estimates say that 60 total million people died in World War II

  2. Japan

    1. when Japan entered the war with the US Japan used habits of obedience and hierarchy to encourage citizens to sacrifice the resources of the national cause

    2. in the final years of the war with the United States young Japanese were encouraged to volunteer to be pilots in suicide missions against the US of fighting ships at sea

    3. Kamikaze pilots were also known as “divine wind” they went on suicide missions killing themselves while flying into US ships at sea

    4. the word kamikaze is from late 13th century they had saved Japan from Kubklai Kai and the Mongols

    5. In Japan women that worked in textile industry and farming the Japanese brought in workers from Korea and China as laborers

    6. in 1947 when the Japanese Diet passed its new constitution women were sure the right to vote and given full legal equality with men in every way

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  3. The bombing of cities

    1. Germany

      1. Churchill was the leader of Great Britain and he bombed German cities in an effort to break civilian morale and bring victory.

      2. Major bombing raids on German cities began in 1942 on May 31, 1942 Colón Germany became the first city to be attacked by 1000 bombers

      3. Bombing raid added an element of terror

      4. there was a growing shortage of food clothing and fuel

      5. Germans were afraid of firestorms from incinerator A-bombs that swept throughout the city

    2. Dresden Germany was bombed from February 13 to February 15, 1945 and created a firestorm that killed as many as 100,000 people

      1. millions of German cities were destroyed in the bombings 500,000 German civilians died in the bombings

      2. The bombings did not take away the Germans morale

      3. people who are both pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi thought by a desire to live

      4. the bombings also did not destroy the industrial capacity of Germany

      5. the production of war materials increase between 1942 in 1944 in spite of the bombing. the bombing did hurt transportation systems and fuel supplies which made it difficult for the new materials to reach the German military

  4. Japan

    1. Japan was open to air raids at the end of the war because it airports had almost all been destroyed

    2. The crowded cities in Japan were built with flimsy materials that were very vulnerable to fire

    3. Japanese cities were bombed by US B-29 super fortresses they were the biggest bombers of the war

    4. The United States had begun bombing Japan on November 24, 1944

    5. by the summer of 1945 many of Japan’s industries had been destroyed

    6. bombing had destroyed one fourth of Japan’s dwellings

    7. Japan said that all people age 13 to 60 must join the People’s volunteer corps

    8. US Pres. Truman dropped two atomic bombs on here Oshima and not a stocky Japan in August of 1945

  5. Turning point

    1. Nagasaki and Hiroshima Japan and the atomic bombs were the turning point

    2. August 6, 1945 Hiroshima Japan was bomb hundred 90,000 and people died. The city originally had 350,000 people.

    3. Nagasaki Japan was bombed August 9, 1945

    4. Japan’s Emperor surrendered ending World War II in the Pacific

    5. Nuclear age the dropping of the atomic bombing Japan marked the beginning of the nuclear age

    6. Other countries saw how powerful nuclear energy was an race to build their own nuclear weapons

    7. August 1949 the Soviet Union set off its first atomic bomb starting an arms race with the United States that lasted for the next 40 years

    8. The Soviet Union and the United States standoff ended in the 1980s

    9. Nuclear weapons and what they mean still remain an issue between the two countries

    10. Nuclear technology also has peaceful uses like generating electricity but controlling it can be difficult

    11. In Hiroshima 70,000 buildings were destroyed of the original 76,000 buildings and 5 mi.2 of Hiroshima turned ashes nuclear bombs create large mushroom shaped clouds that drop radioactive fallout.