PPT-The Bombing of Hiroshima

Sonya Caldera and Sarah Drotar 8 th Acc Overview August 6 1945 Enola Gay Pilot Paul Tibbets Jr CoPilot Robert A Lewis Rendezvous point at Iwo Jima First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan. Locations and Dates. Hiroshima, Japan (Little Boy) August 6, 1945. Nagasaki, Japan (Fat Man) August 9, 1945. “Little Boy”. “Fat Man” . Beginning of Development. The beginning of the project was Albert Einstein’s 1939 letter to FDR in which he suggested that an atomic bomb could be built.. Laura Watt. Pearl Harbor was a . United States Navy deep-water naval . base.. Japan bombed . Pearl . Harbor, Hawaii. , in . December . 7, . 1941.. The main goal of the attack was to destroy American. Was the last major event of WWII. General Groves & Admiral Purnell Were the two American military figures who had made the decision to drop both bombs within days of each other, believing that it would force the Japanese to surrender. Postdam. Declaration. July 26, 1945 – . “We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconstitutional surrender of all Japanese armed forces…the alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.”. Elizabeth Breedveld. August 23, 2015. EDU 225. Brian Clark. August 6, 1945. August 9, 1945. The day that America proved its nuclear strength to the world by bombing Hiroshima, Japan. America bombs Nagasaki, Japan. by John Hersey. What do you know?. Take a few minutes now to make a list of things you know about World War II or Hiroshima. Share with classmates. Historical . Context. Nonfiction. World War II:1939-1945. Yarn Bombing is…. A type of street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fiber rather than paint or chalk. . Although still considered a type of graffiti, yarn bombing is widely accepted in the regular and art communities since it . Alex Elevathingal, Jack Humble, Ernie Yang, and Michael McClelland . Dresden. Thesis. The Allied bombing of Dresden during WWII was an extremely controversial piece of World War II, as the loss of life and tremendous damage caused an excessive amount of unnecessary destruction. The reason for targeting Dresden was mainly to attack any form of Nazi Germany, and to stop the production of weapons from the city. Considering that Dresden was a Nazi city, attacking it made sense. Overall, the bombing of Dresden was an excessive revenge attack on an already breaking down Germany, showing that the Allies were finally taking revenge on Germany for the atrocities during WWII. The result was total destruction of Dresden, and the beginning of the end for the Nazi German empire. . Laura Watt. Pearl Harbor was a . United States Navy deep-water naval . base.. Japan bombed . Pearl . Harbor, Hawaii. , in . December . 7, . 1941.. The main goal of the attack was to destroy American. HIROSHIMA . AND NAGASAKI. WHAT IS AN ATOMIC BOMB?. Weapon with devastating explosive power. Release of energy. Uranium and Plutonium. MANHATTEN PROJECT. Nuclear weapon research. Fear pre-WWII. U.S. government began funding in 1940. (written 40 years later). Father Wilhelm . Kleinsorge. 1948 . named priest at large church . Becomes . Japanese citizen and changes his name to Father . Makota. . Takakura. . Never . gets over radiation sickness . Learning: . Listen to . Gerda’s. story of the Holocaust.. Objectives. Content: Choose and defend your position on whether the United States should have dropped the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan.. Learning: Listen to Gerda’s story of the Holocaust.. Objectives. Content: . Name the . effects of World War II. . Learning: . Choose . and defend your position on whether the United States should have dropped the atomic bomb to end the war with Japan.. Background:. Bataan Death March. Japan invaded the Philippines on Dec 8, 1941. American & Filipino troops surrendered . April 9, 1942. F. orced . to march . 65( /-) miles, took 6 days. 10,000 troops .