Japanese Expansion

Need for natural

resources/power
Invade China/other
Asian countries (very
brutal)
FDR and US try
diplomacy but forced to
use embargo of
resources

Japans Plan
Need to expand in Pacific but US is in
their way
Need a knock-out blow to hurt US
fleet
Will attack US naval base/fleet at
Pearl Harbor
Nagumo leads 6 aircraft carriers (360
planes) and several other ships to
Hawaii

Japanese continue Offensive

Take the Philippines, Guam, and
Wake Island
75,000 US troops surrender
Forced on Bataan Death March
marched 63 miles to camp (7,000 die
along the way)

Revenge
Doolittle Raid (April 1942)
B-25s would take off from Aircraft
Carriers and hit Tokyo

In the Pacific
Island-hopping
Japanese fight to the death
Kamikaze

Very bloody
Battles of Iwo Jima (23,000 US
casualties)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y0g
dFisD9k
Okinawa(50,000 US casualties)

What to do with Japan if not

Evil is when a few

good men decide
to do nothing.

U.S. and World Response

Evian Conference - summer of 1938 in Evian,
France.

32 countries met to discuss what to do about the Jewish

refugees who were trying to leave Germany and
Austria.
Despite voicing feelings of sympathy, most countries
made excuses for not accepting more refugees.

Some US congressmen proposed the WagnerRogers Bill

let 20,000 endangered Jewish refugee children into the

country
bill was not supported in the Senate.

Anti-Semitic attitudes played a role in the failure to

help refugees.
The SS St. Louis, carrying refugees with Cuban
visas, were denied admittance both in Cuba and in

Aftermath
Yom ha-Shoah:
Holocaust
Remembrance Day
established in 1951
Nuremberg Trials:
1945-1949 were
trials for war
crimes of Nazi
officials (24 Nazi
leaders tried)
Displaced Persons
Anti-Semitism in
the world today

Review
What were the two turning points of
the war?
How was the German Army
defeated in the Soviet Union?
What was the Normandy Invasion?
Which countries made up the Big
Three?
What is appeasement?

EQ: (1) How did the

atomic bomb affect
the outcome of the
war?
(2) Was it justified?

Background: War in the Pacific

Mainly the U.S. vs Japan
After Pearl Harbor, USs
strategy is island hopping
Take over Japanese held islands
and move closer to the country
of Japan

U.S. soldier describes islands in the Pacific

Hell was furry red spiders as big as
your fist, giant lizards as long as your
leg, leeches falling from the trees to
suck your blood, armies of white ants
with bites of fire, scurrying scorpions
inflaming any flesh they touched,
enormous rats and bats everywhere,
and rivers with waiting crocodiles. Hell
was the foul smelling, humid jungle
that entrapped its occupants.

Japanese get Desperate

Use Kamikaze (divine
wind) suicide pilots
would crash into the
enemy
Tell troops to fight to the
death
Death toll increases on

Manhattan Project
Top secret project to design a
new powerful weapon: an
atomic bomb
Headed by J. R. Oppenheimer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppgdBI31-lo

Dropping the Atomic Bombs

After bloody battles, U.S. chooses to
use its atomic bombs against Japan
Otherwise the U.S. would have to
invade Japan
Atomic Bombs are dropped on the
cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(August 1945)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t19k
vUiHvAE
Little Boy and Fat Man were the
codenames for the bombs
Equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT

Aftermath
110,000 120,000 die instantly in
the two cities
Thousands more from radiation

Japan surrenders on September 2,

1945
The world enters the Nuclear Age
US emerges as worlds first
superpower

Directions
You will get into your groups and
given a document.
Your group will analyse the document
and answer the corresponding
questions.
Your group will teach your document
to the class.