World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.
-
Upload
sheena-miller -
Category
Documents
-
view
216 -
download
0
Transcript of World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.
![Page 1: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
World War II World War II
European & European & Pacific Pacific
TheatresTheatres
![Page 2: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
european
theatre1938-1945
![Page 3: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Fascist rise to power
![Page 4: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Hitler addresses the Reichstag after Anschluss
![Page 5: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Molotov signsNazi-SovietNon-Aggression PactStalin in background
![Page 6: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Early efforts of Appeasement•Germany invades the Sudetenland
•Munich Agreement with Chamberlain
•America First Committee
![Page 7: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Omaha, NE - 1938
Anti-war labor pamphlet
![Page 8: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Nazi Troops March Into Polandin September 1939
FDR announced neutrality, but stated “Even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience.”
1939 Neutrality Actwith FDR support for “cash and carry” policy
![Page 9: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Dunkirk Beach
![Page 10: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Private boats that helped Allied troops evacuate Dunkirk
![Page 11: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
In June 1940 France surrendered.
On September 3, 1940, FDR began the U.S. policy of Lend-Lease (Cash-n-Carry) “We must be the great arsenal of democracy.”
First peace-time draft begins
![Page 12: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
StukaSpitfire and V-1
Spitfire
V-1
The German “blietzkrieg” overwhelmed enemies and gave the Nazis control over continental Europe by mid-1940
![Page 13: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Hitler and Franco
Joseph Goebbels
![Page 14: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
RudolphHessDeputy
HeinrichHimmlerSS Commander
ErwinRommellDesert Fox
RudolfHoessAuschwitzCommandant
![Page 15: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
German Advances:
WEST: 1938-1940, Appeasement
1940, Battle of Britain
EAST:1938-1941, Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact
1941 Invaded the Soviet Union
NORTH: “soft” invasion and creation of puppet gov’ts
SOUTH: 1939, alliance with Franco of Spain
NORTH AFRICA: 1939, Rommel dominates to attempt to cut off Middle East from Allies
ATLANTIC OCEAN: submarine and battleship warfare
![Page 16: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Battle of Britain
![Page 17: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
![Page 18: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
![Page 19: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
![Page 20: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Bomb shelters became a way of life in London, Liverpool, Manchester, and other manufacturing centers in England.
![Page 21: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
CoventryCathedral
“We have not yet begun to fight!”
![Page 22: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
"Blood, Toil, Tears and SweatBlood, Toil, Tears and Sweat"
"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have
joined this Government, I have nothing to offer but blood,
toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the
most grievous kind. We have before us many long months
of toil and struggle.
"You ask what is our policy. I will say, it is to wage You ask what is our policy. I will say, it is to wage
war with all our might, with all the strength that God can war with all our might, with all the strength that God can
give usgive us, to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never
surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human
crime.
"You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word:
Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror.
Victory however long and hard the road may be. For Victory however long and hard the road may be. For
without victory there is no survivalwithout victory there is no survival."
![Page 23: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Four Freedoms Speech Four Freedoms Speech (Jan. 6, 1941)
1.1. Freedom of speech and expressionFreedom of speech and expression2.2. Freedom of worshipFreedom of worship3.3. Freedom from wantFreedom from want4.4. Freedom from fearFreedom from fear
![Page 24: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
![Page 25: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
![Page 26: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
![Page 27: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
![Page 28: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
Lend-Lease Act, 1941Lend-Lease Act, 1941Over $50,000,000,000 in aid for the Allies (most to
Britain)This decision ended all claims of neutrality. Germany immediately began submarine attacks on U.S. merchant ships. The U.S. became the “Arsenal Arsenal of of DemocracyDemocracy.”
![Page 29: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Atlantic Charter Atlantic Charter - August 9, 1941
First meeting of Churchill & FDR. Agreement of common interests between the two nations.
![Page 30: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Embargos on Japan
July 1940 EmbargoJuly 1940 Embargo: following Vichy France’s assistance into Indochina, the U.S. began an oil, scrap iron, and steel embargo.
July 1941 EmbargoJuly 1941 Embargo: FDR froze Japanese funds in the U.S., closed the Panama Canal to Japan, and stopped sale of all U.S. products to Japan.
![Page 31: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Japanese prepare for surprise attack at Pearl Harbor
Germany, Italy, and Japan formed the Axis Powers in the 1930s. Japan’s role was “Asia for Asians.”
![Page 32: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
December 7, 1941 “A day which will live in infamy.”
First wave atHickam Field
![Page 33: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Corregidor, Philippines
![Page 34: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Congress declared war on Japan on December 8, 1941
Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. on Dec. 11th
FDR declared that “Dr. Win the War” had replaced “Dr. New Deal.”
Nearly every resource and every person played some part in the war effort.
![Page 35: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Ike, Patton, Truman
Supreme Allied CommanderGeneral in
charge of Operation Torch
![Page 36: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
442nd Troopsin Italy
Operation Torch:
1. Protect Middle East (control North Africa)
2. Invade Italy
![Page 37: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Operation Overlord begins June 6, 1944
![Page 38: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Eisenhower speaks to troops
The Normandy Invasion was the largest sea to land invasion in the history of the world.
June 6th: 150,000
By July 4th: 1,000,000 men had landed.
Goals of Operation Overlord:1.Create a 2nd Front (western)2.Go to Berlin
![Page 39: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Normandy Nazi POWs
![Page 40: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Operation Overlord
Deception and misdirection limited casualty figures:
Normandy Invasion (June 6, 1944)
Casualties:
United States 6,603 (1,465 dead & 1,928 missing)
Britain 2,700
Canada 946
Germany ~8,000
Total Deaths during Operation Overlord:
United States 9,386 Britain 17,769
Canada 5,002 Poland 650
Germany 77,866
![Page 41: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Paris is liberated
![Page 42: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Battle of the BulgeDecember 1944 – January 1945
Bastogne
![Page 43: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
Battle of the Bulge
![Page 44: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
The Big Three at Yalta (Feb. 1945)
![Page 45: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Allied bombing of Berlin
The devastation of Berlin
![Page 46: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Allies enter Germany
![Page 47: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Nuremberg in ruins
![Page 48: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
Mussolini, his mistress, and aides are shot and hung by theirfeet for people to spit on
![Page 49: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
Keitel signs surrender; the war in Europe is over
VE DayVE DayMay May 19451945
![Page 50: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
The Allies discover thehorrors of the Holocaust
11,000,000 died in death camps
6,000,000 Jews
![Page 51: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/51.jpg)
Spoils of war werehidden by the Nazisin Salt mines andstorage facilities.Many illegally foundtheir way to museums.
Bags of cash
![Page 52: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/52.jpg)
Allies learn of Polish massacres fromNazi documentation
![Page 53: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/53.jpg)
22 top Nazis were tried and convicted of war crimesat Nuremberg
![Page 54: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/54.jpg)
pacific
theatre1941-1945
![Page 55: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/55.jpg)
Emperor Hirohito
Hideki Tojo
Japan followed its hereditary heir, the emperor. However, its industrialization was followed by a government dominated by the military.
“Asia for Asians” was a propaganda technique used to inspire anti-American feelings. It generally failed as the Japanese brutalized their neighboring Chinese, Filipinos, and Koreans.
![Page 56: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/56.jpg)
Japan vs. China
Japan invades Manchuria in 1931 for oil and minerals
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Left to Right:
Chiang Jieshi (Chang Kai-shek), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill
![Page 57: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/57.jpg)
December 7, 1941
Japan surprise attacks the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Military Deaths: 2,117
Wounded: 781
Civilian deaths: 57
In 3 hours
![Page 58: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/58.jpg)
MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander in the Pacific, tells troopsin the Philippines, “I shall returnI shall return!”
On December 8, 1941 Japan attacked U.S. forces in the Philippines
![Page 59: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/59.jpg)
Americans and Filipinos surrender at Corregidor
![Page 60: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/60.jpg)
85 miles in 6 days with only one meal of rice
Bataan
Death
March
April
1942
![Page 61: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/61.jpg)
78,000 marched to POW camps (24,000 died during march)
Total captives from 1942 to 1945:
24,000 U.S. (12,000 died) 64,000 Filipinos (~66% died)
Japan did not attend the 1929 Geneva Convention for POWs.
![Page 62: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/62.jpg)
Chinese guard Flying Tiger guarding P-4 planes
![Page 63: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/63.jpg)
The Battle of Midway was the first decisive American victory in the Pacific War as it began the U.S. move toward Japan
June 1942
![Page 64: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/64.jpg)
Japanese admiral Yamamoto had noted without complete victory at Pearl Harbor the “giant would be awakened.”
![Page 65: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/65.jpg)
Island HoppingIsland HoppingThe idea was to capture certain key islands, one after another, until Japan came within range of American bombers.
Guadalcanal (Dec. 1942): beginning of march to Japan
Iwo Jima (Feb. 1945):
70,000 U.S. troops (6,281 dead, 20,000 wounded)
27,000 Japanese (20,000 dead)
Okinawa (March to June 1945):
60,000 U.S. (7,613 dead, 31,800 wounded)
142,000 Japanese casualties including thousands of civilians
1,900 kamikazee missions
![Page 66: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/66.jpg)
American marines raise flag at Iwo Jima
![Page 67: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/67.jpg)
![Page 68: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/68.jpg)
![Page 69: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/69.jpg)
![Page 70: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/70.jpg)
![Page 71: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/71.jpg)
![Page 72: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/72.jpg)
![Page 73: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/73.jpg)
Allied soldiers at Saipan beach head
B-29 crashes onto Iwo Jima
![Page 74: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/74.jpg)
Japanese culture did not allow for surrender.
It was the ultimate dishonor for a soldier to be taken prisoner. Japanese soldiers therefore treated POWs incredibly harsh because of their culture.
![Page 75: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/75.jpg)
MacArthur returnsThe Philippine Islands are liberated
![Page 76: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/76.jpg)
Tokyo RoseAmerican-born propagandists not only antagonized American troops but often misinformed Japanese citizens of their plight in the war. It also led to American distrust of Japanese-Americans living in the United States.
![Page 77: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/77.jpg)
The Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
As the Allies were converging on Berlin and Tokyo, FDR died at his retreat in Warm Springs, GA on April 12, 1945
Harry S Truman became the 33rd president and inherited the war. When Truman asked Eleanor, “Is there anything I “Is there anything I can do for you?” can do for you?” she responded, “Is there anything “Is there anything we can do for you? For you we can do for you? For you are the one in trouble now.”are the one in trouble now.”
![Page 78: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/78.jpg)
Bombing over Tokyo
Truman announcesrain of ruin will fallon Japan
![Page 79: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/79.jpg)
Manhattan ProjectIn 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to FDR on behalf of his colleagues who recently had fled Nazi Germany. Einstein warned FDR to begin work on an atomic bomb because the Germans were already working on one.
FDR ignored his prompting until Pearl Harbor and then devoted $2,000,000,000 $2,000,000,000 to the research. On July 16, 1945, the first atomic bomb was set off near Alamogordo in the New Mexican desert. The explosion produced a flash that lit mountains 10 miles away, vaporized the bomb tower, and turned the desert sand to glass for 800 yards around.
![Page 80: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/80.jpg)
Fat Man
Little Boy
J. Robert Oppenheimer
“I am become deathDestroyer of worlds”
![Page 81: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/81.jpg)
HIROSHIMA, Japan, August 6, 1945—The first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped today on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Of the 344,000 people living there, approximately one hundred thousand were killed instantly. Another hundred thousand died later from burns and radiation poisoning. The ten-foot-long bomb, code-named Little Boy, was carried by the Enola Gay. This B-29 bomber dropped Little Boy from an altitude of thirty-two thousand feet. The bomb exploded two thousand feet above the ground, leveling more than four square miles of the city. Waves of flame engulfed the rest of Hiroshima as the river flooded, trapping wounded people too weak to move. President Truman justified the massive civilian casualties by pointing to the hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen who might have died during an invasion of Japan.
![Page 82: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/82.jpg)
Paul Tibbets before and after thebombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
![Page 83: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/83.jpg)
Hiroshima in ruins
![Page 84: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/84.jpg)
Patterns burned into skin
Keloids over burns
![Page 85: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/85.jpg)
![Page 86: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/86.jpg)
Japan refused to surrender following the attack on Hiroshima. Truman then ordered a second bomb to be dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945 (3 days later). Japan surrendered on August 10th.
VJ Day
August 1945
![Page 87: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/87.jpg)
MacArthur presides over Japanese surrender
![Page 88: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/88.jpg)
The “Occupation”The U.S. occupied conquered Japan from August 1945 to April August 1945 to April 1952.1952.
Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur essentially ran Japan from VJ Day until the Korean War
Due to the fear of communist expansion, the U.S. treated Japan more like an ally than a conquered enemy almost immediately after the war. Numerous war crimes were never prosecuted. Somehow Emperor Hirohito was absolved of all involvement in the war and was completely exonerated.
The U.S. outlawed criticism of its
occupation with Japan and even forbade the issue of censorship
from discussion
![Page 89: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/89.jpg)
A) Did the United States need to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?
•Island hopping vs. atomic bomb drop•Retaliation for Pearl Harbor•Anti-Asia history
B) Did the United States need to drop a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan?
•Teheran Conference (Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 1943)•Beginning of Cold War led to “sharing” Germany, Vietnam and Korea
![Page 90: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/90.jpg)
![Page 91: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/91.jpg)
Queen Mary brings troops home
![Page 92: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/92.jpg)
“The real war involves getting down there and killing people. And being killed yourself or just barely escaping it. And it gives you attitudes about life and death that are unobtainable anywhere else. The rest of it is just the show-biz war.”
--Paul Fussell
![Page 93: World War II European & Pacific Theatres. european theatre 1938-1945.](https://reader038.fdocuments.in/reader038/viewer/2022110208/56649dde5503460f94ad78ab/html5/thumbnails/93.jpg)