Please do not talk at this time Sept 30

HW: WWII Test on Tuesday.HW: WWII Test on Tuesday.

I will collect the following on Tuesday:

Pg.22A: Blitzkrieg DBQPg. 27A: Churchill SpeechPg 29A- WWII European Front MapPg. 30A Video Notes ChartPg. 31A- Stalingrad DBQPg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon AnalysisPg. 33A- Pacific War Notes

Please get out a piece of paper and Label it: Pg. 33A- Pacific War in WWII

You may set up your notes any way you want to.

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1931

1937

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19421942

1942

Hawaii!

Territory taken from the US by Japan

Pearl Harbor Attacked - Dec. 7,

1941

A date which will live in infamy!

• Japan wanted the natural resources like tin, iron and gasoline that the Americans had stopped selling them when the USA found out about what was happening in China.

• Japan saw American neutrality as a sign of weakness.

• They believed America would give up right away if attacked brutally enough.

Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

USS Arizona, Pearl HarborThe only American

ships to survive the attack untouched were looking for the Japanese in the Pacific Ocean. Japan had reason to think the Americans could be intimidated into staying out of the War.

Americans were not known for their great military prowess. Most people thought they chose not to fight because they weren’t any good at it.

President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

BSQ: Why were the Japanese so surprised that the USA declared war on them?

Comparing Naval Power

Warships U.S. Fleet Japanese Fleet

Battleships 8 10

Carriers 3 11

Cruisers 24 40

Destroyers 90 112

Submarines 56 63

The Battle of Midway!

First Big battle between the US and Japan after Pearl Harbor

Allied Counter-Offensive:

“Island-Hopping”

Take only the lightly defended islands and skip the rest.

Japan still has to spend soldiers and supplies on the others.

Test

Questi

on

Alert!

US Marines on Mt. Surbachi,

Iwo Jima [Feb. 19, 1945]Iwo Jima is striking distance from Japan. Americans can easily fly bombing missions to Japan’s civilian centers from here.

ASQ: What advantage would attacking Japanese civilians give the Americans? Think strategically and emotionally.

Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

Why does this man look so cheerful?

Why does this man look so cheerful?

Hiroshima – August 6, 1945

70,000 killed immediately.

48,000 buildings.

destroyed. 100,000s died of

radiation poisoning & cancer later.

Nagasaki – August 9, 1945

40,000 killed immediately.

60,000 injured. 100,000s died of

radiation poisoning& cancer later.

V-J Day (September 2, 1945)

• Japan surrenders

• MacArthur and others help write the new Japanese Constitution

• US forces the Emperor of Japan to tell his people he is not a God and not descended of the Gods. Japan is on its own. No “Divine Wind” will save her.

What psychological effect are the Americans trying to have on the Japanese people by making them surrender this way? Why?

What psychological effect are the Americans trying to have on the Japanese people by making them surrender this way? Why?

WW II Casualti

es: Europe

WW II Casualti

es: EuropeEach symbol

indicates 100,000 dead in the appropriate theater of

operations

WW II Casualties: Asia

WW II Casualties: Asia

Each symbol indicates

100,000 dead in the appropriate

theater of operations

Financial Cost of WWII

U.S. $288,000,000,000

Germany $212,336,000,000

France $111,272,000,000

U.S.S.R. $93,012,000,000

Britain $49,786,000,000

Japan $41,272,000,000

Direct economic costs of WWII $1,600,000,000,000

The Nuremberg War Trials:Crimes Against Humanity

The Nuremberg War Trials:Crimes Against Humanity

Nazis are put on trial for the new crime of “Crimes against Humanity”

All but one Nazi leader swear they were in the right until the bitter end.

Japanese War Crimes Trials

Japanese War Crimes Trials

General Hideki Tojo

Japanese military is also put on trial in Tokyo. Very few Japanese military leaders are convicted, though ample evidence of atrocities in Burma, Philippines and China are documented and presented.

Japanese later deny all these claims and remove them from their history books.

Please do not talk at this time Oct 1

HW: NO HW

Please staple the following and turn them in to the Turn In Box:

Pg. 27A: Churchill SpeechPg.22A: Blitzkrieg DBQPg 29A- WWII European Front MapPg. 30A Video Notes ChartPg. 31A- Stalingrad DBQPg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon AnalysisPg. 33A- Pacific War Notes

WWII Test• Take out a pencil and a piece of binder paper.• You will be taking a multiple Choice test for

questions 1 –

• The last couple of questions are short answer.

• When you are done, bring your test to the front of the room and work quietly on something else.

Index so far

Pg. 32A- SCIBA Cartoon Analysis

Pg. 33A- Pacific War Notes