2. japan
• A small island of strategic value
• Japanese resistance as time was getting
stronger
• was well reflected this in the battles in Iwo
jima and Okinawa in 1944.
• Japan was far to atacked his centers of
political and economic power , many
kilometres
• the sea islands
3. Kuribayashi fortifies iwo jima
• the government tried to prevent the occupation of Japan.
• Wants to make it dificult to americans
• more than 22,000
• many soldiers experienced and were armed as no other army
• address the forces who land on the island
• dig many shelters with tunnels for the troops can pass .
• 1,500 digs built and 28km of tunnels.
• in 1945, the amphibious assault with 72,000 men, the operation
was called detachment. The battle lasted six weeks and all
japoneces died after conquering Japan increased shelling.
• Okinawa
• new territory
• house air and naval bases which make the final assault
• for this operation the allies gathered 155,000 mens, would last
for 82 days and battle with 500,000 troops
4. The battle of iwo yima
• February 19 begins the landing
• the naval bombardment
• car and forces to the beach and moved up to the
volcanic earth that hid the positions from which
defenders attacked
• in the early stages Americans regrouped
• the resistance was some mortars and light weapons.
• the terraces of volcanic dust into the earth.
• 20 minutes after they came ashore began the reaction
of japoneces.
• The americans took control of the airfield 1
5. The B-29
• the Japanese army had failed in the attempt to stop it.
• No army, some naval atackes
• .in 1943 already existed weapon to carry out the offensive, the B-29.
• 3,000 million Dolars
• Some serious problems in their engines.
• China, misiions failed
• The sea islands
• in February 1945, 350 B-29s on the islands,
• The navi was relief, the navy during the war had 2,200 bombers.
• March 9 the biggest atacked, 325 bombers
• 100,000 dead
• LeMay would gets screwed all Japanese cities, within 5 days the B-29N
had caused more than 120,000 deaths.
• more than 300,000 dead ended August 14
6. The surrender
• to end the attack
• the new weapons ought launching from an urban area.
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• the ad hoc committee
• truman met with stalin Prime Minister of Great Britain
• The ultimatum
• August 1 truman, the okey
• The group 509, the Colonel Tibbets,
• 2:45 of August 6, 1945 the Enola Gay Tibbets piloted them
the 2500 m high
• . at 9:16 the floodgates opened.
• 43 seconds later the little boy detonated,
• had a power of 15 kilotons and the temperature reached at the point of
impact 50 million degrees,
• the second pump, the fat man
• Nagasaki
• the detonation had a power of 22 kilotons.
7. • The japonese did not have another opcion
that to surrender, they let the allies now that
they accept de surrender
