test tomorrow:
All of the home front, US in Africa, US in Italy, D-Day, Bombing of Germany, VE day and the story of German surrender
-Hiroshima bombing:
- Bomb name Little boy
- killed between 90-100 thousand people
- most people died between the 1st and 2nd day
- most people died from radiation, disintegration, & fire
- bombing daily
- Missed target by 800ft
- Enola Gay-plane that dropped the bomb
- Pilot Paul Tibbits
- took off from Tina island in the south pacific
- Target T-shaped bomb
- designed to blow well above the ground
- radiation sickness- cancer
-Nagasaki bombing:
- camera plane got lost
- Bomb Fat Man
- Dropped by Bockscar
- didn't want to bomb a major cultural or religious city
- 87,000 people died
- weighed 10,000 pounds
- one of Bockscar's fuel tanks wasn't working
- more powerful then the Hiroshima bomb but less damage
- told to only drop bomb when target was seen
-VJ Day and the story of Japan surrendering:
- Victory over Japan day August 14, 1945
- surrender because of atomic bombs being dropped
- surrender now or face destruction
- American prisoners that where in japan where killed
- war is over
-Yalta Conference:
- February, 1945
- Germany would be broken into four occupation zones(controlled by US, GB, France, USSR)
- Stalin promised free election in Eastern Europe
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over
- Have a conference at San Fransisco to set up the United Nation
- eastern Europe was communist
- stage election
- had to vote communist
- Soviet union played the we had more loses card
-Potsdam Conference:
- July 1945
- Indochina-
- Temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel
- Japan would surrender to Great Britain in the south and China in the north
- Temporarily divide Vietnam at the 17th parallel
- Germany-
- Goals of occupation of Germany:
- demilitarization
- denazification
- democratization
- Division of Germany and Berlin and Austria into four occupationzons
- prosecution of Nazi war criminals
- Reverse all German annexation in Europe, including Sudetenland, Alsace-Lorraine, Austria, and the western parts of poland
- Reduce in size 25% reduced
- Removal of the German population remaining behind the German borders
- Agreement on war reparations to the Soviet Union
- Destruction/take control of German industries that made war materials
- Poland was recognized as being a communist controlled Government
- The Potsdam declaration the ultimatum stated that if Japan didn't surrender it would face "prompt and utter destruction"
- Goals of occupation of Germany:
-Manhattan project:
- making nuclear bombs
- General Grooves put in charge
- Oppenheimer the scientist put in charge of building bomb
- Los Alomos New Mexico
- Alamogordo New Mexico first testing ground
- Code name Trinity- name for the testing of the bomb
- top secret
- Soviets had a spy there
- not dropped from plane
- dropped from tower
- few moment brighter and hotter than the sun
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