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Japan’s Conquests in 1942

Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary

Doolittle’s Raid

Battle of Coral Sea

Chester Nimitz

Battle of Midway

Guadalcanal

Battle of Leyte Gulf

MacArthur’s Return to the Philippines

Iwo Jima

6,821 US Deaths at Iwo Jima

Raising Flag on Mt. Suribachi

General Leslie Groves

J Robert Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer and Groves

Alamogordo, New Mexico

Trinity

Enola Gay

Paul Tibbits

Hiroshima Bombing

• “Little Boy”

Before

After

The Atomic Shadow

Radiation Sickness

Nagasaki Bombing

• “Fat Man”

• Bockscar

Before

After

VJ Day

• August 14, 1945 • Japan surrendered thus

ending WWII

Yalta ConferenceCompromise

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

• Stalin promised free elections in Eastern Europe

• Stalin promised to join the war against Japan after war with Germany was over

• Have a conference at San Francisco to set up the United Nations

Nuremberg Trials

                                                         

          

                                                         

          

GI Bill of Rights

GI Bill of RightsTo help the members of the Armed Forces adjust to civilian life after

separation from service

To give those who cannot afford a higher education the chance to get one

To restore lost educational opportunities and vocational readjustment

to service members who lost these opportunities as the result of their active military duty

To aid in the retention of personnel in the Armed Forces

To enhance our Nation's competitiveness through the development of a more highly educated and productive work force

Japanese Internment Camps

                                                                                                             

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