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1 The End of the Pacific War: Hiroshima & Nagasaki 1945 Week 7

2 The Pacific War: 1941-1945 Showa (1926-1989) 1931 Occupied Manchuria 1933 Withdrawn from League of Nations 1937 2 nd Shino-Jap. War 1941 12/7 Attack Pearl Harbor 12/8 Invasion of Thailand 1942 Battle of Midway 1945 8/6 Hiroshima 8/9 Nagasaki 7/15 Surrender Pacific War (1941-1945) WWI (1914-1918)

3 Air Raids on Japan  After losing the battle of Midway (July 1942), it became clear that Japanese was losing the war. Major air raids on more than 200 cities began in 1942. Lost 330,000, injured 430,000 civilians.

4 Air Raids on Japan: Tokyo  Tokyo: 106 times bombing from April 18 to May 25, 1942

5 Air Raids on Japan: Nagoya and Osaka  Nagoya: 66 times bombing from December 1944 to June 1945  Osaka: 63 times bombing from March to June 1945

6 Air Raids on Japan: Kobe and Kyoto  Kobe: 128 times bombing from January to June 1945  Kyoto: 20 times bombing from January to June 1945

7 Atomic Bombs  August 7, 1945 Hiroshima  August 9, 1945 Nagasaki

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9 Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine’s Photographs from Ground Zero (O’Donnell 2005)

10 O’Donnell 2005: Sasebo

11 O’Donnell 2005: A school

12 O’Donnell 2005: Obey the Imperial Army

13 O’Donnell 2005: Hiroshima

14 O’Donnell 2005: Hiroshima 2

15 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 1

16 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 2

17 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 3

18 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 4

19 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 5

20 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 6

21 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 7

22 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 8

23 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 9

24 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 10

25 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 11

26 O’Donnell 2005: Nagasaki 12

27 Keiji Nakazawa (1939-2012): Barefoot Gen


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