March 27th- March 31st

M- NO SCHOOL 

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  • China Incident- July 1937 
    • Japan was doing well at the being of the war 
  • Rape of Nanking - Late 1937 - Early 1938 
    • A mass of killing, raping, looting and arson 
    • Japan has denied that the military killed innocent civilians 
  • Quarantine Speech 
    • Given so we stay out of the war 
  • Panay Incident - December 
    • American gunboat attacked on river in China by Japan 
    • 3 US troops were killed 45 wounded 
    • Japan compensated for it and apologized 
  • Soviet Janpanese Neutrality Pact 
    • The USSR and Japan signed an agreement to not fight one another in April, 1941 
    • Japan considered breaking this once 
    • Declared war day after the Atom Bomb dropping 
  • Japan 
    • Island Hopping to to get closer to Japan 
    • Battle of Midway 
      • The island we need to defeat Japan 
      • We Beat them 
    • MacArthur wanted to stay but was ordered to leave by Roosevelt 
  • Iwo Jima 
    • Raising of the Flag
      • 2 flag raising 
    •  Atomic Bombing 
    • We lost 6,821 US Deaths from Iwo Jima 
  • Okinawa 
    • First Japanese Island 
    • We invade and Take Okinawa 
  • Invading Japan 
    • Operation Downfall 
    • Planned for October 1945 
    • Estimated 1 million casualties 
    • Estimated to have 267,000 deaths 
    • Never took place because of the atomic bomb droppings 
  • Atomic Bombs 
    • The Manhattan Project 
      • Hiroshima
        • Einstein
        • Trinity Test - July 16th, 1945  
          • Testing of the first Atomic Bomb 
        • Enola Gay - Plane that Dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima 
          • Uranium 237 - Little Boy 
          • Named after Mother of Paul Divvets 
      • Nagasaki Bombing 
        • Fat Man 
        • Bockscar 
        • Missed Target 
  • Potsdam Conference - July 1945 
    • On July 26, the US, GB, and China issued the Potsdam Declaration 
    • Announced the terms for Japan's surrender 
      • Dismantle the current government to stay in power (Excluding Hirohito) 
      • The Allies (US) will occupy Japan 
      • Japan will lose the all the territory gained during war and leading up to it 
      • Japanese Military forces will be disarmed and allow to go home 
      • There will be war crimes trials for the atrocities committed by Japan 
      • Democracy was then and is now Democratic 
      • Japan will be allowed to have industry so they can trade and make money to pay us back 
      • We take over their military for about 7 years so Soviets don't 

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