The Japanese began to use Kamikaze tactics when they realized that they were slowly starting to lose the war. It was their last ditch ffort to kill as many Americans as thy could to keep from being driven back from the islands that they had captured.
MacArthur was a US general who was driven away from the Philipenes. He vowed that he would return to th Philipenes and take them back. He was full of himslf and wanted to appear to be a glorious leader lading his troops to victory over the Philipenes as a major turning point in the war.
Ewa Jima was a very small island in the Philipenes that was controlled by the Japanese. American forcs wre ordrd to capture the island in the name of the US. This was one of the most famous battles of the war. The Japanese were well dug into th landscape and fought literally to the death. The Japanese were told by their superiors that the Americans would torture their prisoners to death so many Japanese troops killed themselves rather than be captured.
The famous raising of the flag at Ewa Jima is about the most famous photographically documented point in WW2, or any US war history. The battle of Okinowa was the largest Amphibious attack in the Pacific war. General Leslie Groves was the general in charge of the Manhattan project. J Robert Oppenheimer was the lead scientist in charge of the manhattan projct. He was a little dude but obviously brilliant.
Trinity site was the first site where the first nuclear bomb was dropped and tested in New Mexico. Very special planes were designd that could carry the extrmely heavy bomb. The atomic bomb drops on Japan were undescribingly destrucive and devastating.
The Yalta Conference Compromise was the compromise that broke Germany into four parts each controlled by a world powr. Stalin lied by saying h would allow fr elections. Stalin promisd to join the war against Japan aftr the war wth Germany. The Nuremberg Trials were trials held against the Nazis for war crimes and the Holocaust.
GI Bill of Rights was passed to hlep soldirs return to everyday life after the hardships of war. THe Japanese internment camps was when Japanese Americans were forcd to sell all of thir possessions and to go and live in these camps where they could be carefully watched over. These camps were one of the uglier moments in our nation's war history. The conditions were not ideal, but the people could basically do anything that they wanted to do in the camps like go to school, play ball, work, whatevr. It just was not very ideal placs to live.
World War 2 was the war of all wars. I cannot imgaine the pointless deaths of so many millions of innocent lives by the hands of a few men who called themselves leaders.
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