tuesday may 4 2010

Bruns continues his information packed power point which is almost too much information for a high schooler to take in and learn something but thats beside the point...here's my blog!!

Battle of leyte gulf was pretty much the last straw to japans navy.. We pretty much wiped them out or destroyed them i guess..As bruns would say it crippled japan's navy..

MacArthur returns to the Phillippines...

Iwo Jima-japanese were dug in in the mountains and the land, lots of amphibious attacks and it was hard for the US..

Bunch of Pictures like usual...he likes to have tons of pictures!!!

6,821 US deaths at Iwo Jima..

Okinawa was the biggest invasion for US on the pacific front against Japan..

General leslie groves was the general put in charge of the manhatten project..

J Robert oppenhiemer was head of building the bombs..

Almagordo new mexico is where they where they detonated first bomb named trinity..We told the public that we were detonating old bomb shells. Both bombs detonated before hitting the ground..

Enola Gay-The pilots of war didn’t like the guys that dropped the bomb because they were considred royalty and didn’t actually do much. Paul tibbits was the pilot of the plane that dropped the bomb...

The Hiroshima bomb was called Little Boy

The Atomic Shadow-because of the intense heat from the bomb it would burn shadows into the ground...THESE BOMBS WERE HOTTER THAN THE SUN

The Nagasaki bomb was called Fat Man-This bomb was a platonium bomb and was more powerful than Hiroshima..

The Bockscar was the plane used to drop Nagasaki..

Yalta Conference

1)Germany would be broken into four occupation zones(US,GB,France,USSR)..

2)Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe..

3)Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over..

4)Have a conference at San Francisco to set up United Nations..

GI Bill of Rights-Help members of armed forces to get used to regular every day life..

Interment Camps-relocation camps for japanese people and they were given education and they could do recreational stuff too.. They were given wages and stuff like jobs so it wasn't like Nazi concentration camps at all!!!

Finally we are done...Oh my Gosh!!!!!

Work Day tomorrow and presentations start thursday so i gotta get going on the project!!!

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