 Bloodiest battle in the Pacific Theater
 Helped convince President Truman
to use the atomic bomb
 Atomic bomb
 Manhattan Project
 The U.S. project to build the first
atomic bomb
Oppenheimer
Einstein and Szilard
 Manhattan Project
 The U.S. project to build the first atomic bomb
 First test in the New Mexico desert in July 1945
Trinity Test
 The U.S. project to build the first atomic bomb
 First test in the New Mexico desert in July 1945
 1st bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
on August 6, 1945
Enola Gay
“Little Boy”
 The U.S. project to build the first atomic bomb
 First test in the New Mexico desert in July 1945
 1st bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
on August 6, 1945
 First test in the New Mexico desert in July 1945
 1st bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima
on August 6, 1945
 2nd bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki
on August 9, 1945
Bockscar
“Fat Man”
 2nd bomb dropped on the Japanese
city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945
 V-J Day (August 14/15, 1945)
 Victory over Japan Day
 The day Japan announced its
unconditional surrender
Paris
Manhattan Project
workers in Tennessee
New York
 Victory over Japan Day
 The day Japan announced its unconditional surrender
Formal surrender, Sep 2, USS Missouri
 Victory over Japan Day
 The day Japan announced its unconditional surrender
 Discuss
 Iwo Jima
 Okinawa
 Atomic Bomb
 V-J Day
 Write a sentence explaining
why the Battle of Okinawa
helped convince Truman to
use the atomic bomb.
 Victory over Japan Day
 The day Japan announced its unconditional surrender
 Aftermath
 Death toll
 Military: 22-25 million
 Civilian: 40-55 million
 Death toll
 Military: 22-25 million
 Civilian: 40-55 million
 Military: 22-25 million
 Civilian: 40-55 million
 War crimes trials
 Nuremberg Trials
 Prosecuted Nazi leaders
Hermann Goering
 War crimes trials
 Nuremberg Trials
 Prosecuted Nazi leaders
 Several sentenced to death
 Prosecuted Nazi leaders
 Several sentenced to death
 Japan
 Prosecuted Japanese leaders
 Many sentenced to death
 Prosecuted Japanese leaders
 Many sentenced to death
 Emperor Hirohito and his family
were not prosecuted
 He continued as emperor until
his death in 1989
 Emperor Hirohito and his family were not
prosecuted
 He continued as emperor until his death in 1989
 United Nations
 International peacekeeping organization
 Established at the end of World War II
 International peacekeeping organization
 Established at the end of World War II
 Replaced the failed League of Nations
 Established at the end of World War II
 Replaced the failed League of Nations
 Discuss
 Death toll
 War crimes trials
 United Nations
 Write a sentence
explaining whether you
think the U.S. should
have prosecuted
Emperor Hirohito.