Essential Question:

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• Essential Question
• What role did the United States play in fighting
  in Asia during World War II?
• Warm-Up Question
• What was the significance of
• The Battle of the Atlantic?
• Stalingrad?
• Operation Overlord (D-Day)?
• The Battle of the Bulge?

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Quick World War 2 in Europe Review
Europe First Battle of the Atlantic
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Quick World War 2 in Europe Review
Victory in North Africa
Turning Point Stalingrad
Operation Torch liberation of Italy
Fighting in Europe, 1942-1943
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Europe 1944-1945
D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France
Soviet army seizes Berlin Germany surrenders
May 7, 1945
Battle of the Bulge
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While American forces fought in North Africa in
1942, the U.S. Navy began fighting Japan
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Whether to Drop the Atomic Bomb Critical
Thinking Decision A
FDRs Decision B
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The Manhattan Project

• Based on scientific research, FDR created the
  Manhattan Project, the code name for developing
  an atomic bomb
• Robert Oppenheimer was put in charge of
  developing the bomb
• From 1942-1945, a number of secret labs across
  the country developed built the bomb

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In July 1945, the bomb was successfully tested at
Los Alamos, New Mexico during Project Trinity
The bomb was constructed in a secret city in Oak
Ridge, TN
Physicist Enrico Fermi at the University of
Chicago developed the nuclear reaction
Nuclear plant in Hanford, WA developed the
plutonium
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Whether to Drop the Atomic Bomb Critical
Thinking Decision B
Trumans Decision C
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The Japanese refused to surrender even in the
face of defeat
By 1944, Americans gained supremacy of the air
ran daily fire bombings on Japanese cities
In addition, Japanese soldiers resorted to
horrific acts of barbarity on the battlefield
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb

• Truman issued the Potsdam Declaration to Japan
  surrender or face prompt utter destruction
• When Japan refused to surrender Truman ordered
  the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
• After 3 days, the Japanese govt did not respond
  to the bombing
• The U.S. dropped a 2nd atomic bomb in the city of
  Nagasaki

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Whether to Drop the Atomic Bomb Critical
Thinking Decision C
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Hiroshima
Nagasaki
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Dropping the Atomic Bomb

• Effect of the atomic bomb
• Saved hundreds of thousands of lives because it
  prevented a U.S. land invasion of Japan
• Revenge for Pearl Harbor
• Showed the USSR that the USA had the ultimate
  weapon (began the Cold War nuclear arms race)

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WW2 Timeline (Allies, Axis, USSR)