Monday, March 11
• Agenda
– WWII Group Timeline Activity
• Complete & Turn in
– Review of Key Events
• Video segments & discussion
Essential Question: With the events below, put them in
chronological order and give a brief description of each: (T)
_____ D-day assault
_____ Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
_____ Yalta Conference
_____ V-E Day
Theatres of War
D-Day Assault: June 6, 1944
Saving Private Ryan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3
wUjZpPNsxI
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's
D Day pre-invasion speech on June
6, 1944
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q
Hcnp9YhuFc
Yalta Conference – Feb 4-11, 1945
Yalta Newsreel
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybnzMnFE
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Yalta discussions
Held in Russian resort town of Crimea
• Allied leaders discussed:
– How to proceed with the war
– How to handle post war period
Pacific Theatre
• Russia’s help was needed to win in the Pacific
• In exchange Russia would get a sphere of
influence in Manchuria after Japan’s surrender
European Theatre
• To include France in governing of Germany
• US & British agreed that future governments
of the Eastern European nations bordering the
Soviet Union should be "friendly" to the Soviet
govt.
• Soviets pledged to allow free elections in all
territories liberated from Nazi Germany.
FDR dies April 12, 1945
Postdam Conference – July 17, 1945
VE Day (Victory in Europe)
May 8, 1945
VE Day (Victory in Europe)
May 8, 1945
• Would Yalta Agreements be followed?
• Would the Allied powers remain allies?
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsOTI_fdo
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Pacific Theatre –
Japan’s Aggression on the Rise
Pearl Harbor: December 7, 1941
US Drops the Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4LQaWJRDg
The atomic bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy", which was
dropped on the Hiroshima City, exploded at an altitude
of 580 meters above a hospital
The atomic bomb, nicknamed "Fat Man", which was dropped on
the Nagasaki City, exploded at an approximate altitude of 500
meters above a tennis court at Matsuyama-cho of Nagasaki City at
11:02 am on 9 August 1945.
ESTIMATES OF EARLY DEATHS DUE TO A-BOMB
IN HIROSHIMA
It is estimated that the number of those who were directly
exposed to the atomic bomb in Hiroshima was between
340,000 and 350,000. Among them,140,000 people were
estimated to have died by the end of December 1945. Out of
140,000 deaths,about 20,000 were considered to be those of
the military service men.
In addition to the above casualties,many Koreans were also
exposed to the A-bomb directly. At that time,a large number
of Koreans were taken to Japan by force and forced to work to
construct the bomb shelters and others.
Effects on
Victims of the
Atomic Bomb
Hair Loss
Keloid
Keloid: heat burns due to atomic bomb reached deep layers of skin and caused keloids
among many survivors. (From Report on the Scientific Materials and Data of Atomic
Bomb Disasters)
Concerning the excess deaths due to atomic bomb radiation, those by leukemia were first
noticed. Then, from about 10 years after the A-bombing up to now, the excess deaths due to
other types of cancer have increased.
The studies of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation on unborn babies exposed
A-bomb survivors show that severe mental retardation was seen mostly among the
children who were exposed to radiation at 8-15 weeks of age in their mother’s
womb.