Battle in Pacific

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Battle in Pacific

• Chapter 15 Section 3

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US Strategy

• Island Hopping
• Seize selected Japanese-held islands in the
  Pacific while bypassing others

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Japanese Soldiers

• Fight to the death
• Kamikaze Pilots
• Deliberately crashed plans into American ships

4
Iwo Jima

• 5 mile long island, 650 miles southeast of Tokyo
• 36 days of fighting, 23,000 marines killed

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Okinawa

• 340 miles from Japan
• Okinawa contained a vital air base of Japan
• Half a million troops used
• 1,213 Warships
• 50,000 casualties
• Allowed for US to bomb Japan

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New Technology

• Radar
• Calculating machines
• Jet engines
• Penicillin

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Manhattan Project

• Albert Einstein sent letter to Roosevelt, telling
  him about Germans atomic bomb
• The making of the atomic bomb was a high priority
• J. Robert Oppenheimer led the project

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Drop the Bomb

• Harry Truman decided to drop Atomic bombs on
  Japan
• August 6, 1945 bomb dropped on Hiroshima
• In 2 minutes, 60,000 people killed
• Japan did not surrender
• August 9, 1945 bomb dropped again on Nagasaki,
  killing 35,000
• August 15, 1945 V-J Day

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Atomic Bomb