Japanese WW2 Presentation

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Japan in World War II &

HiroshimaBy: Lauren Rocha and

Francisco Hernandez


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Prologue Conflict between Japan and the

United States and Britain

Rejected racial equality clause

in Treaty of Paris of 1919 U.S Congress passes Exclusion

Act in 1924

Economic Crisis

Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 Great Depression in 1929

Military takes over governmentin the 1930s

Kwantung Army occupiesManchuria

1933 Japan withdrew fromLeague of Nations


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Japan vs. China

1937 Sino-Japanese

War

Who started shot first?

August, JapaneseNaval Officer killed by

Chinese Troops.

Japan occupies entire

coast of China until 1945 Also occupy French

Indochina (Vietnam)


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1940 Japan joinsGermany and Italy in the

Tripartite Pact


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U.S and Britain start an oil boycott Japan captures Dutch East Indies

(Indonesia) for oil Starts war with U.S and Britain

LEADS TO..


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ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR General Tojo Hideki gives the order to bomb

Pearl Harbor and other islands in the Pacific


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Pacific War

1941 Guam and Wake Island surrender toJapan

In 1942 the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies,

Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore and Burma fallto Japan

Turning Point: Battle of Midway

Allies begin island hopping, conquering Japanin each one

In 1945, U.S invades Iwo Jima and Okinawa


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Kamikaze Strategy


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U.S. Bombs Japan

U.S had been bombingmany cities of Japan

Tokyo

Yokohama

Hamamatsu

Nagoya

Osaka

Kobe

Etc.


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A survivor described the damage to people:

The appearance of people was . . . well, they all had skinblackened by burns. . . . They had no hair because theirhair was burned, and at a glance you couldn't tellwhether you were looking at them from in front or inback. . . . They held their arms bent [forward] like this .

. . and their skin - not only on their hands, but on theirfaces and bodies too - hung down. . . . If there hadbeen only one or two such people . . . perhaps I wouldnot have had such a strong impression. But wherever Iwalked I met these people. . . . Many of them died

along the road - I can still picture them in my mind --like walking ghosts.


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Little Boy

Name of the atomic bomb that hit Hiroshima

Exploded 1,900 feet above the city

The mushroom cloud climbed about 40,000 feet

into the sky Approximately 70,000 people died instantly

70,000 more people died over 5 years due to

radiation Fat Man, the 2nd Atomic bomb was dropped on

Nagasaki


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August 14, 1945

Emperor Showa

surrenderedunconditionally.

August 28,1945

Japan was officially

at peace.


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Works Cited

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan. NewYork: Press Syndicate of the University ofCambridge, 1993. Print. Pages 95-105.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki.http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwarii/a/hiroshima.htm. (Accessed March 2012).

Militarism and WW2 (1912-1945).http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2129.html.(Accessed March 2012).

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