Japan

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Explain the role of the United States in the rebuilding of Japan after WWII.

WW2 Videos

? - kid history

Pearl Harbor

? On December 7, 1941 Japanese

forces attacked the US Naval base, Pearl Harbor, located in Honolulu, Hawaii.

? Hundreds of Japanese fighter

planes descended on the base

? Destroyed or damaged American naval

vessels and over 300 airplanes

? More than 2,400 Americans died in the

attack, including civilians, and another 1,000 people were wounded.

? The day after the assault, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.



Allies

? Great Britain ? USA ? China ? Soviet Union

(USSR)

Axis

? Germany ? Italy ? Japan

Background WWII

? The Pacific battles between the Axis and Allied Powers were very bloody.

? The Allied Powers used an Island Hopping technique to take over islands and get closer to Japan.

? Kamikaze Pilots-Japanese pilots in World War II who deliberately crashed their airplanes onto enemy ships

? Hitler surrenders (May 7, 1945) but Hirohito doesn't

?

Decision to drop the bomb....

United States believed

? Americans were suffering many

casualties , Japanese were showing no signs of possible negotiation.

? If the United States dropped the

atomic bomb, surrender and peace would probably occur.

? Americans viewed Hirohito as a

symbol of military aggression

Japan believed...

? Japan is willing to fight to the

bitter end as an underdog.

? Emperor Hirohito was totally

against unconditional surrender.

? Unconditional surrender was

destruction of "divine" monarchy.

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