Hitlers Secret Weapons Too Little Too Late V1

Hitler’s “Secret Weapons”: Too Little, Too Late! V-1 Rocket: “Buzz Bomb” V-2 Rocket Werner von Braun

Hitler Commits Suicide April 30, 1945 Cyanide & Pistols The Führer’s Bunker Mr. & Mrs. Hitler

V-E Day (May 8, 1945) General Keitel

V-E Day (May 8, 1945)

The Code Breakers of WW II The Japanese “Purple” [naval] Code Machine Bletchley Park The German “Enigma” Machine

Homework • In the American Spirit, Volume 2 read the following readings regarding the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb: – P. 384 -385 Japan’s Horrified Reaction – P. 386 -387 The Christian Century Deplores the Bombing – P. 387 -388 Harry Truman Justifies the Bombing – Using APPARTS, break down the documents

Pearl Harbor

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot

Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!

President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War

USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor Memorial 2, 887 Americans Dead!

Pacific Theater of Operations

“Tokyo Rose”

Paying for the War

Paying for the War

Paying for the War

Betty Grable: Allied Pinup Girl She Reminded Men What They Were Fighting For

Singapore Surrenders [February, 1942] Major British military base in Asia About 80, 000 British, Indian and Australian troops become POWs

U. S. Surrenders at Corregidor, the Philippines [March, 1942]

Bataan Death March: April, 1942 76, 000 prisoners [12, 000 Americans] Marched 60 miles in the blazing heat to POW camps in the Philippines.

Bataan: British Soldiers A Liberated British POW

The Burma Campaign General Stilwell Leaving Burma, 1942 The “Burma Road”

Allied Counter-Offensive: “Island-Hopping”

Midway June 4, 1942 Japanese bombers roar over Midway Island (occupied by the US Navy) 6 months after Pearl Harbor Japan wanted Midway to use as a base to attack Hawaii again…America counterattacks and sinks a Japanese cruiser and 4 aircraft carriers. (US loses a destroyer and carrier Yorktown) American victory: repel the Japanese and a turning point in what had been a series of victories for the Japanese

Battle of Midway Island: June 4 -6, 1942

Battle of Midway Island: June 4 -6, 1942

“Island-Hopping”: US Troops on Kwajalien Island

Farthest Extent of Japanese Conquests

Lt. Col. Jimmy Doolittle: th , First U. S. Raids on Tokyo, April 18 1942

Battle of the Coral Sea: May 7 -8, 1942 First battle in which Aircraft carriers use planes as mode of attack exclusively (neither see or fire on one another. Also, neither side won a clear victory, but it does check the Japanese advance towards Australia.

Japanese Kamikaze Planes: The Scourge of the South Pacific Kamikaze Pilots Suicide Bombers Begin in 1944, nearly 4000 pilots were sacrificed… (14% success rate) Kamikaze means “God” or “Divine Wind”

Gen. Mac. Arthur “Returns” to the Philippines! [1944] Mac. Arthur, in command of American forces in the Far East was forced to retreat in 1942. He vows to return and after leading major campaigns in SW pacific he recaptures the Philippines. Brilliant Planning leads to great success in the war.

US Marines on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima [Feb. 19 -March 16, 1945] Island hopping strategyneeded islands in which to launch attacks on Japanese mainland. After weeks of bombing the Marines land at Iwo Jima and are met by Japanese soldiers that had been hiding in underground shelters and caves. Fierce hand to hand US Marines- 6821 dead fighting, refusal of 18, 070 wounded Japanese to surrender

Potsdam Conference: July, 1945 FDR dead, Churchill out of office as Prime Minister during conference. Stalin only original. The United States has the A-bomb. Allies agree Germany is to be divided into occupation zones Poland moved around to suit the Soviets. P. M. Clement Attlee President Truman Joseph Stalin