World History since Wayne E. Sirmon HI 104 World History

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1 World History since 1500 Wayne E. Sirmon HI 104 World History

2 History 104 World History since 1500 April 23 Article Review Four Due April 24 Online Quiz Chapters April 30 Exam Four (Chapters 25-27)

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4 World War II or A World full of Wars WWII consisted of 4 related major wars: 1. Second German War (Western Front & Africa) Invasion of Poland 1 SEP Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front USSR) OPNS Barbarossa 22 JUN Great Pacific War (Japan vs USA) Attack on Pearl Harbor 7 DEC War for East Asia (China-Burma-India, Indonesia) Manchurian Incident 18 SEP 1931

5 World s Greatest Murderer

6 World s Greatest Murderer Joseph Stalin 43,000,000 deaths while leading the USSR

7 Drop a bomb in a Pickle Barrel at 20,000 feet Circular Error Probable 50% of the bombs will hit with the circle Norden Bomb Sight Combat: 1,200 20,000 ft If you want a 90% probability of at least 1 bomb hitting a target 1/3 the size of a football field, you must drop 9,000 bombs.

8 Comparison of War Production, ,000 Warships 121,536 92,898 87,563 48,600 88,466 20, ,813 84,027 64,800 2, , , , , , ,000 Aircraft 0 20,000 40,000 60,000 80, ,000 Tank & SP Artillery

9 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting AUG 1941 Atlantic Charter US and UK Plan for Post-war World

10 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting AUG 1941 Atlantic Charter US and UK Plan for Post-war World

11 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting JAN 1943 Casablanca Conference Italian Campaign Unconditional Surrender

12 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting JAN 1943 Casablanca Conference Italian Campaign Unconditional Surrender

13 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting NOV 1943 Tehran Conference Final Strategy Operation Overlord

14 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting NOV 1943 Tehran Conference Final Strategy Operation Overlord

15 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting FEB 1945 Yalta Conference Defeat Germany Set UN Conference USSR vs. Japan

16 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting FEB 1945 Yalta Conference Defeat Germany Set UN Conference USSR vs. Japan

17 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting JUL 1945 Potsdam Conference Occupation Zones War Crime Trial Post-war borders

18 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting JUL 1945 Potsdam Conference Occupation Zones War Crime Trial Post-war borders

19 The Global War, Let s take a Meeting JUL 1945 Potsdam Conference Churchill out Clement Attlee in Roosevelt dies Truman in

20 US Division of Command and Eventual Offensive Plan Nimitz MacArthur

21 Key Battles in the Pacific Coral Sea 4 8 May 1942 Midway 4 7 June 1942 Guadalcanal 7 August February 1943 Leyte Gulf October 1944 Iwo Jima 19 February 26 March 1945 Okinawa April 1 June 22, 1945

22 Key Battles in the Pacific Coral Sea 4 8 May st time the Japanese had been stopped. 1 st battle where no ship was in sight of enemy. Midway 4 7 June 1942 US read Japanese Naval Code. IJN- 4 Aircraft Carriers sunk vs USN 1 Japan never recovers from loss of pilots

23 Key Battles in the Pacific Guadalcanal 7 August February 1943 first major offensive by US Leyte Gulf October 1944 largest naval battle in history

24 Key Battles in the Pacific Iwo Jima 19 February 26 March ,821 KIA, 19,217 wounded vs. 18,000 KIA and 216 POW Okinawa April 1 June 22, ,009 KIA, 38,000 wounded vs. 110,000 KIA, 7,000 POW

25 Submarine Warfare Sink warships, merchant ships Surveillance, rescue pilots More dangerous than bombers, infantry

26 The Divine Wind Approximately 2,800 Kamikaze attackers sank 34 Navy ships, damaged 368 others, killed 4,900 sailors, and wounded over 4, percent of Kamikazes survived to score a hit on a ship. Lacked of quality pilots

27 The Global War, Aug 6, 1945 Aug 9, 1945

28 The Atomic Bomb Hiroshima, 6 Aug 1945 U-235 Thin Man 13 KT HOB = 1, ,000 deaths blast, initial radiation 118,661 total deaths (12 months) Nagasaki, 9 Aug 1945 P-239 Fat Boy 22 KT HOB = 1,640 ft 40,000 deaths blast, initial radiation 73,884 total deaths (12 months)

29 Morality of Using the Atomic Bomb 27 July 1943 Hamburg Raid: 50,000 dead February 1944 Dresden Raid: 80,000 dead 9 Mar 1945 Tokyo Raid: 84,000 dead Hiroshima Atomic Bomb: 66,000 dead Nagasaki Atomic Bomb: 39,000 dead Total Japanese bombing casualties (Nov 44-Aug 45): 330,000 dead

30 The Atomic Bomb A question of morality? Operation Downfall Operation Coronet Oct 1945 Operation Olympic Spring 1946 Estimated US KIA 109,000 to 800,000 Est. Japanese KIA - 500,000 to 10,000,000

31 Truman s View, Late 1945 It occurred to me that a quarter of a million of the flower of our young manhood was worth a couple of Japanese cities, and I still think they were, and are.

32 History 104 World History since 1500 East & West in the NEXT Grip of the Cold War Chapter 26 The Collapse of the Grand Alliance The Korean War Conflict in Indochina / The 2 nd Indochina War