Slide 2 THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE
EMPIRE OF JAPAN, 1941 - 1945 World War II in the Pacific Theatre
Part II Slide 3 Kamikaze Pilots In Japanese, the term kamikaze
translates roughly to divine wind. During the end of World War II,
desperate Japanese leaders recruited men to serve as suicide pilots
promising them eternal life in heaven in exchange for their lives.
The men target ships with their heavily armed airplanes, then
crashed into the ship. Slide 4 Kamikazes Slide 5 Kamikaze Attack of
the USS St. Louis Slide 6 Iwo Jima, February 1945 Okinawa, April
1945 Major United States Victories of 1945 Slide 7 The Manhattan
Project A top-secret program set up by the United States government
in order to develop and test an atomic bomb. Suggested by none
other than Albert Einstein, who feared that the Germans would
create the weapon first, the program was led by J. Robert
Oppenheimer and completed at Oak Ridge, TN and Los Alamos, NM.
Slide 8 Einstein writes to FDR Slide 9 Slide 10 Test at Los Alamos,
NM Slide 11 J. Robert Oppenheimer I am become death, the destroyer
of worlds. Slide 12 Harry S Truman Slide 13 Hiroshima, Japan The
bombing of Hiroshima, Japan was the dawn of the atomic age. The
city of approximately 120,000 people was reduced to rubble
instantaneously. The plane Enola Gay dropped the bomb on Hiroshima,
after having taken off from Okinawa, Japan. Slide 14 Hiroshima,
August 6, 1945 Slide 15 Nagasaki, Japan The decision to use a
nuclear weapon against civilian populations in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki is still a controversial one some maintain that it was
simply murder. Harry Truman, however, explained that an invasion of
Japans main islands would easily have cost one million American
lives and perhaps even more Japanese lives military and civilian.
Slide 16 Surrender on board the USS Missouri September 2, 1945 The
Japanese formally surrendered to the United States on board the USS
Missouri, on September 2, 1945. General Douglas MacArthur accepted
the Japanese surrender and served as governor of the islands during
its Reconstruction after World War II, planting the seeds of
democracy and individual rights in Japan which flourish there
today. Slide 17 Surrender on the USS Missouri, Sept 2, 1945 Slide
18 Japanese Internment Camps, WW II During World War II in the
United States, Japanese Americans were robbed of their individual
rights and civil liberties and forced to relocate into internment
camps for the duration of the war. Slide 19 Japanese Relocation
Camps Japanese Americans were forced to live in crowded conditions
with little or no privacy, and many were robbed of personal
property or forced to sell their possessions at low prices. While
the indignities and insults were great, there should not be any
parallels drawn between the way Japanese-Americans were treated in
internment camps and the way Jewish people were treated in
concentration camps and death camps.
