Yesterday we didn't have school! Today we are going over the thing that will be on our test tomorrow, and what is gonna be on the test Thursday! The test is a group test!
Battle of the Philippians
- Japan invaded the island because they wanted a base against the United States
- Douglas MacArthur was over there and he was ordered to leave to go Australia
- When he got to Australia he vowed to return to the Philippians
- Surrender of Germany = May 18, 1945 in France
- Hitler committed suicide during the battle of Berlin; so Kernel Donuts authorized the surrender
Atomic Bomb
- Oppenheimer and Groves (didn't want to be there in the beginning because he wanted to be fighting in the front lines) = put in charge of the Manhattan Project
- The first bomb to go off in history = at Alamogordo, New Mexico is where they tested it
- Trinity = first atomic bomb to go off in history
- Manhattan Project = development of atomic bomb
Hiroshima Bombing
- Uranium-2 35 bomb was used
- There was no airplane strong enough to carry this 10-20 thousand pound bomb. So, they built the Nola Gay in order to carry the bomb
- Hiroshima Bomb ("Little Boy") = August 1945; killed about 80,000 instantly and then about 50,000 more in the years due to radiation sickness/burns etc.
- Japan still didn't surrender
Nagasaki Bombing
- Dropped within a couple days of Hiroshima
- Plutonium based bomb called "Fat Man"
- It was much stronger than Hiroshima bomb but there were hills in the location where it was dropped that blocked some of the explosion caused by it.
- This eventually led to VJ-Day
- They dropped bombs on these two locations because of weather conditions, airplane issues (gas), etc. They weren't necessarily on the top of the list
- Only two cities to be hit by atomic bombs in wartime
VJ-Day
- When Japan surrendered; ended WW2
- August 14/15, 1945
Compromises that ended the War
- Democracy vs. Communism
- Start of the Cold War
Yalta Conference
- February 1945
- 8-day conference they were trying to figure out how to make Hitler surrender
- FDR, Churchill, Stalin, and France were the main leaders
- Germany would be broken into four occupation zones; each country would control a specific zone
- Stalin promised free election in eastern Germany; this was a lie and he ended up taking them over
- Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over; this was because he wanted more land when it was all over
Potsdam Conference
- July 1945; Climatically, Truman, and Stalin were at this conference
- Things that happened: Focused on punishing Germany and preventing them from being able to do this again
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