Lecture/PowerPoint discussing the Nazi's "Final Solution" as well as the events taking place in the Pacific Theater.

1. THE “FINAL
SOLUTION” AND
THE WAR IN
THE PACIFIC

2. HOW DID
AMERICA
RESPOND TO THE
JAPANESE
ATTACK ON
PEARL HARBOR?

3. 2THE OSRD AND THE BOMB
FDR CREATED OFFICE OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
AND DEVELOPMENT (OSRD)...
BROUGHT SCIENTISTS,
LIKE ALBERT EINSTEIN,
INTO THE WAR EFFORT
TOP-SECRET PROJECT WAS
SETUP TO SHORTEN THE
5-YEAR TIME SPAN TO
BUILD AN “ATOM WEAPON”
1941
CHANNELED HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
INTO UNIVERSITY-BASED
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CODENAMED THE
MANHATTAN
PROJECT

4. 3NAZI HIERARCHY AND THE HOLOCAUST
IN EUROPE, HITLER WAS NOT SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR
HORRORS COMMITTED AGAINST THE JEWS OF EUROPE...
HEINRICH
HIMMLER
OVERSEER OF
EXTERMINATION
CAMPS AND
HEAD OF THE SS
DR. JOSEF
MENGELE
REINHARD
HEYDRICH
EXPERIMENTED
ON JEWS AND
OTHER
DETAINEES
HITLER’S
SUCCESSOR AND
CHAIRED THE
WANNSEE
CONFERENCE

5. 4THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE
HIMMLER AND HEYDRICH WERE IMPATIENT WITH
PROGRESS OF THE “FINAL SOLUTION”…1941
JAN. 20, 1942
WANNSEE CONFERENCE
WAS HELD AT A VILLA IN
THE SUBURBS OF BERLIN
HERE, NAZI LEADERS
FINALIZED A PLAN OF
EXTERMINATION FOR THE
6.5 MILLION JEWS THEY
WERE TOLD WERE LIVING
IN EUROPE

6. 6:08CONSPIRACY (2001): EXCERPT ON THE
WANNSEE CONFERENCE

7. 6THE EXTERMINATION CAMP
IN ADDITION TO AUSCHWITZ, 5 OTHER CAMPS
WERE DESIGNATED AS EXTERMINATION CAMPS...
1942
EXTERMINATION CAMPS ARE
FREQUENTLY CONFUSED WITH
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
EXTERMINATION CAMPS
WERE RUN BY SS
OFFICERS AND WERE
CAMPS WHICH KILLED ON
AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE

8. 7THE GAS CHAMBERS
EXTERMINATION CAMPS WITH GAS CHAMBERS HAD
ALL PRISONERS ARRIVE BY TRAIN...
JEWS HAD THEIR CLOTHES
AND POSSESSIONS SEIZED,
AND THEY WERE HERDED
NAKED INTO THE
CHAMBERS
ONCE THE CHAMBER WAS
FULL, THE DOORS WERE
SHUT, CYANIDE WAS
RELEASED, AND ALL
INSIDE DIED WITHIN 20
MINUTES

9. 4:50SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL: EXCAVATING A
SECRET GAS CHAMBER

10. MEANWHILE, THE WAR AGAINST JAPAN
WAS RAGING IN THE PACIFIC...

11. 10BATAAN AND THE DEATH MARCH
~20,000 AMERICAN TROOPS HELD OFF VIOLENT
JAPANESE ATTACKS AT BATAAN…
MACARTHUR WAS
ORDERED TO SECRETLY
DEPART FOR AUSTRALIA
APR. 9,
1942
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
HAD 80,000 AMERICAN
AND FILIPINO TROOPS BUT
WAS STILL OUTNUMBERED
MACARTHUR’S CAPTURED
FORCES WERE SUBJECTED
TO THE 60-MILE FORCED
DEATH MARCH

12. 11DOOLITTLE’S RAIDS
ALLIES LAUNCHED A DARING AIR RAID ON
TOKYO AND OTHER JAPANESE CITIES...APR. 18,
1942
LIEUTENANT COLONEL
JAMES DOOLITTLE LED 16
BOMBERS IN AN ATTACK
ON TOKYO

13. 5:08THE STORY OF THE DOOLITTLE RAID

14. 13BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA
JAPAN PUSHED RELENTLESSLY SOUTHWARD INVADING
NEW GUINEA, THE SOLOMON ISLANDS, AND
THREATENING AUSTRALIA ITSELF...
FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
FIGHTING WAS DONE BY
ONLY CARRIER-BASED
AIRCRAFT
JAPANESE ONRUSH WAS
CHECKED AT A BATTLE IN
THE CORAL SEA
MAY 1942

15. 14BATTLE OF MIDWAY
JAPAN NEXT ATTEMPTED TO SEIZE THE MIDWAY
ISLANDS, ~1000 MILES NORTHWEST OF HAWAII...
EPIC NAVAL BATTLE WAS
FOUGHT NEAR MIDWAY, AS
THE AMERICANS
DELIVERED A CRUSHING
DEFEAT TO JAPAN
JUNE 3-6, 1942
AFTER MIDWAY, ALLIES
BEGAN “ISLAND HOPPING”
CLOSER-AND-CLOSER TO
THE JAPANESE HOMELAND

16. 4:00THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY: ANATOMY OF A
DECISIVE WORLD WAR II VICTORY

17. 16GUADALCANAL, NEW GUINEA, AND “BLOODY TARAWA”
19,000 TROOPS GAINED A FOOTHOLD AT
GUADALCANAL IN THE SOLOMON ISLANDS...
ISLANDS FELL AFTER
SUICIDAL RESISTANCE BY
THE JAPANESE
AUG.
1942
AMERICANS NOW BEGAN
“LEAP-FROGGING” THE
HEAVILY FORTIFIED
JAPANESE ISLANDS
BATTLES WERE FOUGHT
AT TARAWA AND MAKIN
NOV. 1943

18. 6:53WALT DISNEY: COMMANDO DUCK: DONALD
DUCK VS. THE JAPANESE (1944)

19. WRAPPING-UP
EXPLAIN WHAT
FIGHTING WAS LIKE
IN THE PACIFIC.
WHAT STRATEGIES
WERE THE ALLIES
USING?