March 30th Blog too.
20. Navajo Code Talkers
- People who knew a different language and sent war messages
- 29 men sent messages across the world and the Germans could not figure it out because the language was never written down
- The recieved no recognition until the declassification of the operation in 1968
- silver medals given to the 4 survivors; gold given to the families of the others
- August 14-Navajo Code Talkers Day
- gave victory to US
21. Doolittle's Raid
- led by Doolittle
- April 18,1942
- US first air attack on Japan
- we had to launch from aircraft carriers
- had to crash land in china cause they couldn't land on the aircraft carriers
- all aircraft was lost; 11 men were either dead or a POW
22. Manhattan Project
- project to build an atomic bomb
- they heard that hitler was going to build one but all of his scientists were jewsish so he killed them or they left
- Nobody knew what they were doing cause it was top secret
- J Robert Oppenheimer was very important sceintist in charge
- people had to keep a very good eye on him b/c they thought that he would turn on them
- Trinity- code name of the test bomb "Fat Boy"
23. Hiroshima bombing
- August 6, 1945
- "Little Boy"-Uraniun 235 Bomb
- Pul Tbbits
- Dr. only helped the people that they thought would make it and left the serverly wounded
- US wanted to make sure that they didn't have any casualties trying to make japan surrender
- They had to make an airplane strong enough to carry the atomic bomb
- T shaped bridge was the main target, but it survived the bomb
- Radiation sickness was the main caus for deaths
24. Nagasaki bombing
- August 9.1945
- "Fat Man"-Platonium bomb
- had one of the largest sea ports in japan
- was more power ful but it missed its target
- Bockscar plane
- The plane had to crash land because they were runnign out of gas
- Nagasaki was not going to be the main target it was Kokura
25. VJ Day
- Victory over japan day
- ended WWII-August 15th (in Japan) or 14th (in US)
- Document signed on the USS Missouri
26. Yalta Conference
- held in the libeaughta palace
- war time meeting of the heads of gov
- Germany would be broken into four organizations zones (GB, US, France, USSR)
- Stalin promised free elections in Earstern Europe
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japna after war with Germany was over
- Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the UN
- Stalin, Chruchill, FDR held the confrence
27. Nuremburg Trials
28. Japanese Internment Camps in US
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