WWII People's Choice

Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

Ally's Plan

• The allies were gathering an invasion force for Japan
• after the expected casualty rate for invading Japan caused them to use the atomic bomb

The Date of the Bombings

• America dropped bombs on the 6th and 9th of August after the refusal by Japan to surrender

Casualties for Japan

• Hiroshima - 90,000-166,000 dead
• Nagasaki - 39,000-80,000 dead

Surrender

• Japan surrendered August 15, 1945

The Sinking of Bismark

Dates

• Commissioned - August 24, 1940
• Sunk - May 26, 1941

Casualties

• 2,200 German sailors died
• 110 prisoners

Ship

• largest German ship
• initiated a 2 day chase of the allies to destroy it

Why Was America

Reasons

• WWI
• The Great Depression
• isolationists

Before Pearl Harbor

• The U.S. was letting British take weapons and supplies from the U.S. to Britain
• FDR was wanting to get in the war
• congress saw the Nazis as a threat

Pearl Harbor

• caused the U.S. to enter WWII
• Germans later declared war on the U.S.

Pacific War

• the U.S. was using an idea called island jumping against Japan
• slow process, but was working

Atomic Bomb

• weapon never before seen in human warfare
• still debated today if it was necessary
• ended the Pacific War between the U.S. and Japan