End of War in the Pacific Mid 1945 – U.S. island hopping campaign pushed Japanese back towards Japan Japan not willing to submit to U.S. demand of unconditional.

End of War in the Pacific• Mid 1945 – U.S. island

hopping campaign pushed Japanese back towards Japan

• Japan not willing to submit to U.S. demand of unconditional surrender

• Invasion of Japan could cost millions more lives

• U.S. began to think of different options to quickly end the war…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jS4muIxFkw

Hiroshima• August 6, 1945, U.S.

dropped atomic bomb on Japanese city of Hiroshima

• Estimated 70,000 civilians died immediately

• Japan would still not accept terms of surrender

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4LQaWJRDg

Hiroshima before and after the bomb

Effects of the bomb• Heat of blast so intense people

at center of explosion vaporized

• Bomb’s white light acted like giant flashbulb and burned dark fabrics of clothing into skin and shadows of bodies onto walls

• People experienced blinding flash, followed by intense heat, and a deafening explosion

Nagasaki• August 9, 1945, U.S.

dropped second atomic bomb on Japanese city of Nagasaki

• Estimated 40,000 civilians died immediately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncq_Wye43TM

End of World War II

• August 14, 1945 Japanese Emperor Hirohito accepted U.S. terms of surrender

• September 2, 1945 Japan signed an official declaration of surrender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf8YqaFZjak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5MMVd5XOK8