Today, we continued our blog #5 discussion.
-Battle of the Philippines
- Japan invaded the island for base operations against America
- General McArthur
- ordered to leave to go to Australia
- got to Australia and gave a speech and said that he shall return and he did
-War Production Board
- more production
- make as much stuff as you possibly can
- encourage people to not waste time
- National War Labor Board= everyone work together and have no fights
- put aside differences until after the war
- no longer made normal things
- changed and started making stuff for the war
-Manhattan Project
- Oppenheimer and Groves
- Groves was put in charge of scientists
- Groves picked Oppenheimer to be his lead scientist
- Alamogordo, New Mexico is where they tested the first atomic bomb
- Code name is Trinity test
- nothing left after the bomb
-Hiroshima bombing
- Bombs U235
- No plane could carry the bomb
- Plane built specifically B29 or Enola Gay
- Paul Tibbits flew the plane
- Hiroshima bomb was called Little Boy
- Bomb was the largest in History
- Today it wouldn’t take out all of Omaha
- August 1945
- People died of radiation (cancer), and bad burns
-Nagasaki bombing
- Japan didn’t surrender from Hiroshima so we dropped another
- Named Fat Man
- If Japan didn’t surrender they didn’t have another bomb ready
- Would have to wait a while
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering
- Bombings led to Japan’s surrender
- Ended WW2
- August 14, and 15 1945
-Yalta Conference
- One of the conferences that ended the war
- February, 1945
- 8 day conference to try to get Hitler to surrender
- Created zones
- Germany would be broken into 4 occupations zones (US, GB, France, USSR)
- Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe and didn’t happen
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over, but declared war on Japan the day after the bombings
- Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the United Nations
- Make the league of nations better and change the name
- Churchill knew the war was going to be over after the first bombing in Japan
-Potsdam Conference
- Stalin, Churchill, Truman and Clemente attended
- New prime minister in GB Attlee
- Focused on punishing Germany and making sure that they didn’t do this again
- Germany would have to be more democratic
- Transition to a monopoly economy
- Only export certain items
- Indochina temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel line
- Japan would surrender to GB in the south an china in the north
- Demilitarization, denazification, democratization
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