The Battle for Okinawa

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The Battle for Okinawa

• April 1945

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The last island between the allies and Japan!
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U.S. Marines invade Okinawa

• The battle would be a sample of what an attack
  of mainland Japan would be like.

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Kamikaze

• The Japanese unleash over 1,900 Kamikaze attacks!
• Sink 30 ships.
• Damaging 300.
• 5,000 sailors killed.

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Fighting was even fiercer that Iwo Jima!
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The fighting ended on June 21st, 1945.
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The cost was horrific

• 7,600 Americans killed.
• 110,000 Japanese killed.
• 2 Japanese generals committed ritual suicide.

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The next stop was Japan.

• Predictions
• 1 million American lives.
• ½ million British.

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There was an alternative to this loss of life
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The Atomic Bomb.
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The Manhattan Project

• Robert J Oppenheimer.
• Secret.
• Most ambitious scientific project in history.
• 600,000 Americans involved.

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President Truman.

• He did not even know until he became president.

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Testing in Mexico.

• July 16th, 1945.
• Visible for 180 miles.
• Mushroom cloud.

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Should President Truman use it?
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Truman decided to use it.

• He picked 2 targets.
• We also warned Japan. Complete and utter
  destruction.
• Japan refused to surrender.

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The two targets.

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Enola Gay August 6th, 1945.

• Little Boy the code name for the atomic bomb.
• Hiroshima.
• An important Japanese military city.

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The bomb was dropped.

• In 43 seconds the city of Hiroshima was gone.
• The Japanese refused to surrender.

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Nagasaki

• Fat Man code name.
• 200,000 killed in a year.
• Radiation.

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Emperor Hirohito surrendered.
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Surrender ceremonies.

• U.S. Battleship Missouri.
• Surrender papers signed.
• The war is over.

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