BATTLE of LEYTE GULF October 1944 Last, largest and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific...
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BATTLE of LEYTE GULF October 1944 • Last, largest and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific • Disaster for the Japanese • Japanese lost 4 aircraft carrier • Japanese lost 3 battleships • Japanese lost several cruisers • Japanese NO longer any real thre anwhile back in the Pacific… “Island Hopping”
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BATTLE of LEYTE GULFOctober 1944
• Last, largest and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific• Disaster for the Japanese• Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers• Japanese lost 3 battleships• Japanese lost several cruisers
• Japanese NO longer any real threat
Meanwhile back in the Pacific…“Island Hopping”
October 20, 1944: General Douglas MacArthur
RETURNS to the Philippines!
Meanwhile back in the Pacific…
I’m a little late, but we
finally came!
February 19, 1945- March 26, 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima
Potsdam Conference:
July 1945
(FDR Died 4/12/1945)
Atlee, Truman, Stalin
• Divide Germany• Divide Berlin• How to end war in
Pacific• USA HAS atomic
bomb• Ask for Japanese
surrender
70,000 US Marines V.
22,000 Japanese soldiers
216 Japanese taken prisoner3,000 hid in caves for weeks/ years
(last one surrendered in 1951)
US casualties:6,821 killed
19,000 wounded
February 19, 1945- March 26, 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima
Japanese Kamikaze Pilots“Divine Wind”3,860 pilots killed
18.6% of them successfully sunk Allied ships
Attacks began in October 1944
Battle of Iwo JimaBattle of Okinawa
“Little Boy”
“Fat Man”
ColonelPaul Tibbets
Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer
General Leslie Groves
Albert Einstein?
© 66,000 – 80,000killed immediately.
© 48,000 buildings.
destroyed.© 100,000s died of
radiation poisoning and cancer later.
August 6, 1945Bombing of Hiroshima
August 9, 1945Bombing of Nagasaki
©40,000 killed immediately.
©60,000 injured.©100,000s died of
radiation poisoning& cancer later.
V-J Day: September 2, 1945
USS Missouri
Casualties
The total estimated human loss =roughly 72 million people.
The civilian toll = 47 million, including 20 million deaths due to war related famine and disease.
The military toll = 25 million, including the deaths of about 4 million prisoners of war in captivity.
The Allies lost approx 61 million people, and the Axis powers lost 11 million.
Effects:
Beginning of the Cold War
By late 1940s = divided Germany =
Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” (1946)
West = capitalist nations of Western Europe
East = Soviet control (including Poland)
Truman Doctrine 1947 = CONTAINMENT
Approximately 5.7 million (78%) of the 7.3 million
Jews, in occupied Europe, perished in the Holocaust,
compared to the non Jewish victims of the Nazis which
are estimated between 5 to 11 million ( 1.4% to 3.0%) of the 360 million persons in
German dominated Europe
The Holocaust RevealedHitler’s FINAL SOLUTION
