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emperor in japan
"son of heaven"
last in line of male family |
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real power in japan
head of army
strongest of worldlords
believed japanese were the master race |
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the way of the warrior
all japanese believe in "death before dishonor" |
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japanese soldiers sent into china to clear out for japanese to live
the japanese tested the rest of the world to see what they would do |
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head of u.s. navy for the rest of ww2
in charge of central pacific(island hopping) |
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rounded up japanese in coast and hawaii put in these in midwest
designed to keep them in one place at a time |
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u.s's strategy in the war
stay out of harms way until we can rebuild (pacific fleet) |
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supreme ally commander of u.s.
takes the marines island hopping
"i shall return"- to the philippines |
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march in extreme heat for 120 miles
american pows by japanese |
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american pilot, ww1 pilot ace
given 16 B-25 bombers
"Doolittle Raid" |
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| in charge of the hornet (carrier) |
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first major battle of ww2
japanese destroyed Lexington (plane carrier)
u.s. forced japanese to withdrawal before they got to australia |
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turning point of ww2
battle changes our strategy
in one battle we even up the odds |
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| knows what u.s. is capable of (japan leader) |
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U.S.'s version of ultra
"enigma" |
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switch from active defense
start from outskirts island by island to japan
takes 3 and a half years |
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one of the most famous battles of marine corp history
marines are trained to attack
aremy defends
6 week long hand to hang battle |
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largest air and naval battle of all time
knockout 75% of jap ships (navy)
kamikazes |
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| japanese volunteers, who fly their tnt loaded plane into an american carrier |
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20,000 marines killed in two days
costliest battle |
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whatever japanese had left was in this battle
22,000 americans die b/c of kamikazes |
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smuggled out of germany and recruited to be part of the Manhattan Project
found a way to isolate a single aton |
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| FDR's secret plan, no one knows about it |
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| place where people are sworn into secrecy for the Manhatten Project |
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university of CA physics teacher
smartest scientist they had so far
"father of the atomic bomb"
placed in charge of manhatten project |
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| general to oversee all the scientists |
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| splitting of the nucleus of one single atom |
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italian scientist
successfully splits an atom in two for the bomb |
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| to smuggle german scientist working on the atomic bomb into america |
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| Leo Szilard & Edward Teller |
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| two scientists from Hungary |
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| held in a navy base in the desert ALMORGORDO, NEW MEXICO (WHITE SANDS) |
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vp, becomes president after FDR dies
doesnt know when to use the atomic bombs |
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truman, stalin, & churchill meet and warn japan about secret weapon
japan doesnt surrender |
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"superfortress"
can go 350 mph |
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| takes bomb component parts to TINIAN ISLAND- where they assemble bomb |
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given task of dropping first atomic bomb
flies the ENOLA GAY- dropped bomb on HIROSHIMA |
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| name of plane that carried plutonium bomb to drop on NAGASAKI |
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| day that japanese surrender and realize they cant win |
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peace treaty was signed on this ship in tokyo's bay
by GEN. McArthur |
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| differenced between ww1 & ww2 |
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-battle line in ww1 was stationary, ww2 was all over
-destruction was more widespread in ww2 |
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| differences between war in europe and in pacific |
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| pacific theatre was airial and navail mainly, europe was mostly land war |
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1)new threat to world peace is communism
2)we are now in a nuclear age |
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on enola gay
put bomb together and dropped it on hiroshima
"bombadier" |
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| battle cry of the kamikazes |
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