April 28, 2010

We talked about our Cold War Projects. We will start sometime around next Thursday.

Afghanistan

Today Kody picked up where he left off on his D Day presentation.

D Day

-They wanted air plane support to take out obstacles that the Germans set up

-Omaha was the most heavily fortified

Why the Allies won WII and the effects

-advantages; the Navajo codes, and broke the Japanese code (magic), natural resources, atomic bombs

Key Battles:

- Battle of Iwo Jima first attack on Japanese home land, 35 day battle

- Battle of Okinawa; 250,000 died half that were wounded

-Battle of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Atomic bombs, surrender, radiation sickness

-Tojo put to death and we helped rebuild Japan

-US had so many resources that would support our troops and were able to support our allies. Where our enemies were running out

-Technology; atomic bombs

-We had many more people

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