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Battle of the Phillipeans
- Japan invaded the island because they wanted a base against the United States
- Douglas McArthur was over there and he was ordered to leave to go Australia
- When he got to Australia he vowed to return to the Phillipeans
- Surrender of Germany = May 18, 1945 in France
- HItler committed suicide during the battle of Berlin; so Kernel Donuzts authorized the surrender
Atomic Bomb
- Oppenheimer and Groves (didn't want to be there in the beginning because he wanted to be fightint in the front lines) = put in charge of the Manhatten Project
- The first bomb to go off in history = at Almaogordo, New Mexico is where they tested it
- Trinity = first atomic bomb to go off in history
- Manhatten Project = development of atomic bomb
Hiroshima Bombing
- Uranium-2 35 bomb was used
- There was no airplane strong enough to carry this 10-20 thousand pound bomb. So, they built the enola Gay in order to carry the bomb
- Hiroshima Bomb ("Little Boy") = August 1945; killed about 80,000 instantly and then about 50,000 more in the years due to radiation sickness/burns etc.
- Japan still didn't surrender
Nagasaki Bombing
- Dropped within a couple days of Hiroshima
- Plutonium based bomb called "Fat Man"
- It was much stronger than Hiroshima bomb but there were hills in the location where it was dropped that blocked some of the explosion caused by it.
- This eventually led to VJ-Day
- They dropped bombs on these two locations because of weather conditions, airplane issues (gas), etc. They weren't necessarily on the top of the list
- Only two cities to be hit by atomic bombs in wartime
VJ-Day
- When Japan surrenderd; ended WW2
- August 14/15, 1945
Compromises that ended the War
- Democracy vs. Communism
- Start of the Cold War
Yalta Conference
- February 1945
- 8-day conference they were trying to figure out how to make Hitler surrender
- FDR, Churchill, Stalin, and France were the main leaders
- Germany would be broken into four occupation zones; each country would control a specific zone
- Stalin promised free election in eastern Germany; this was a lie and he ended up taking them over
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over; this was because he wanted more land when it was all over
Potsdam Conference
- July 1945; Climatnetly, Truman, and Stalin were at this conference
- Things that happend: Focused on punishing Germany and preventing them from being able to do this again
- Germany had to be more democratic, Nazi's were disbanned, demilitarization, limited exports(no war goods), give back all the land and countries they took over
- Indochina = temporarily divided Vietnam; this was kind of the start of vietnam issue
** Wednesday Test** = homefront- VE-Day
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