more learning will happen today.
monday we will watch a movie for 3 days.
testing will be after thats done
today we'll finish up the powerpoint.
i seriously need to review that, cuz half the time i was doing english.
other than class, today there is a tennis meet, both boys and girls, both against denison. but the boys are home and girls are away. wish us luck.
yesterday the powerpoint was all about battles, mostly in the pacific.
Magic won the war because we knew when and where the enemy was coming. battle of midway, we devastated japan's navi. iwo jima, raising of the flag. okinawa, similar to d-day.
The Manhattan Project - code name for the developement of the atomic bomb.
General Leslie Groves. wanted to be on the front lines like other generals, but was put in charge of scientists. but he eventually understood the significance.
J Robert Oppenheimer was the scientist in charge of the atomic bomb. he was american, but he was a communist. Los Alamos was where the developement took place, and Alamogordo, New Mexico was where the first atomic bomb was tested. Code Named the Trinity Test.
Horror movie tangent.
Its brighter than a star. Its brighter than 2 stars. EGO
they had to design a new plane to carry the atomic bomb because it was uber heavy.
Paul Tibbits. The pilot who flew the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima.
Hiroshima bombing....Little Boy was the bomb's nickname. The mountains of Nagisaki kinda contained the blast a bit. the main area they were targeting was a T-shaped bridge in the middle. the brigde actually survived the bombing, but it was greatly damaged. as was the rest of the city.
after seeing the damage, we questioned if we had done the right thing. but, the other option would have been to invade, and then we'd lose a ton of lives, and they would lose and the losers lose more than the winners. so, yeah.
The Atomic Shadow.
The people who were close enuogh to the bomb....as they disintigrated, their shadows were burned into the ground behind them. the atomic bomb was hotter than the sun.
Survivors had horrible burns and stuff. nuclear radiation ouches affected people for years.
Japan did not surrender. So we bombed them a second time.
Nagasaki bombing, bomb was nicknamed Fat Man, plane was Bockscar.
they got better pictures of this one.
again, did less damage than it could have because of the surrounding mountains.
This time Japan surrenders. Emporer Hirohito personally says so and stuff.
VJ Day, August 14th, 1945.
famous picture of a couple in new york kissing in celebration at the news of VJ.
Churchill, FDR, and Stalin photo. Yalta Conference. delt with post-war europe. feb 1945. before anybody had surrendered. The Compromise:
Germany would be broken into 4 occupied zones (US, GB, France, USSR)
Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe (a lie, he stayed communist)
Stalin promised to joing the war against Japan after war with Germany was over (true, done so right after we dropped the bomb. he knew all about the bomb, cuz he had spies)
Have a conference at San Fransisco to set up the United States.
Nuremburg Trials
the war crimes trials held for all the nazis and higher-up people.
Hermann Goering. quote about how it doesnt matter if the people want war or not, its up to the government, and they can get the people to do what they want by lying to them.
Tangent. the government is shutting down for 6 months because the republicans and the democrats cant decide on a budget for that amount of time. so military people etc. wont get paid. national parks and museums will shut down. so, it will cost more money to to this than it would to not. cuz they gotta pay the people who didnt get paid for those 6 months.
GI Bill of Rights.
for people who needed help readjusting to normal life after the war.
Japanese Internment Camps.
we did not trust the Japanese Americans. so we put them all in army barracks, desolate places. not a good thing in our history, but entirely different from a death camp. they were provided for, they were not hurt, they were not forced, they had jobs and were paid, they played games and had fun, etc.
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