1. WWII BATTLES

2. 1942 1943 TURNING POINT BATTLES Coral Sea Midway
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TURNING POINT BATTLES
1942
Coral Sea
Midway
Midway virtually destroyed Japanese Navy.
1943
Continued “island hopping” strategy

3. Change in Japanese Strategy
Japanese leaders were rattled by the raids—bombs might have killed the emperor!!
The American fleet, they decided, had to be destroyed!
They wanted to cut off their supply lines to Australia.
Japan decided to attack Midway Island—the last American base west of Pearl Harbor.
Bombs falling on Tokyo.

4. Fighting at the Battle of Midway Badly damaged Yorktown
At the Battle of Coral Sea, the Yorktown and the Lexington fended off a Japanese attack on New Guinea and preserved Australia.
American code-breakers heard the plan
Admiral Nimitz used this as an opportunity to ambush the Japanese fleet.
Japanese plans were hit with antiaircraft fire, shooting down 38 planes.
Japan lost 100 pilots which hurt their Air War.
American planes caught carriers by surprise— their fuel, bombs, and aircraft were exposed.
Four Japanese carriers were sunk, destroying the heart of the navy.
This hit the Japanese hard—it halted Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
Fighting at the Battle of Midway
Badly damaged Yorktown

5. The Pacific
Island Hopping- capturing some Japanese controlled islands and ignoring others in a steady path to Japan.
This was a slow and steady process to get to Japan and end their conquering power.

6. Japanese Kamikaze Planes: The Scourge of the South Pacific
Kamikaze Pilots
The last 2 years of the war, the Japanese resorted to “suicidal bombers” or Kamikaze bombers to destroy the American Navy.
Approximately 2,800 Kamikaze attackers sunk 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4,900 sailors, and wounded over 4,800.

7. Moving Toward Japan
Iwo Jima- March days of fighting= 23, 000 casualties. Americans won.
Okinawa- April 1945= Most costly operation in the Pacific. Held a vital air base. 50, 000 casualties. ½ million troops and 1,213 warships.
Using these places American troops could bomb Japanese Islands.
March One night= B 52 bombers destroyed 16 square miles of Tokyo. Killed 83, 0000 Japanese and injured more than 100,000 more. (more than the atomic bombs)

8. US Marines on Mt. Surbachi, Iwo Jima
Feb. 19, 1945

9. MANHATTEN PROJECT
A joint Allied Project consisting of Canadian, British and U.S. scientists to build an atomic bomb.
Started in 1940…..
By July 1945, 3 bombs had been built.
1 bomb = 20,000 tons of TNT
One would be set off in New Mexico successfully.

10. Col. Paul Tibbets & the A-Bomb

11. Hiroshima- August 6, 1945 70,000 killed immediately
48,000 buildings. destroyed.
100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

12. Nagasaki- August 9, 1945 40,000 killed immediately 60,000 injured.
100,000s died of radiation poisoning & cancer later.

15. President Harry Truman
My fellow Americans, the British, Chinese and United States governments have given the Japanese people adequate warning of what is in store for them.
The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and unfortunately thousands of civilian lives will be lost.
I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately and save themselves.
President Harry Truman

16. Japanese A-Bomb Survivors

17. The Beginning of the Atomic Age

19. TOTALITARIAN DICTATORS
After the Nagasaki bombing, Emperor Horhito surrendered to the Allies to end WWII in Japan.
“The time has come to bear the unbearable”.
Japan surrenders on Aug 14, 1945.
Official surrender ceremonies were held on Sept. 2, 1945 aboard the USS Missouri near Tokyo Bay.
Emperor Horhito
dictators

20. JAPANESE SURRENDER
Jap surrender
Japan surrenders on Aug. 14, 1945……Official surrender ceremonies were held on Sept. 2, 1945

23. V-J Day response by Americans in New York City