The document summarizes key events of World War II in the Pacific theater between the United States and Japan. It discusses Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which killed over 3,000 Americans and drew the U.S. into the war. It also covers the U.S. development and dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, leading to Japan's surrender and the end of the war.
The document summarizes key events of World War II in the Pacific theater between the United States and Japan. It discusses Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which killed over 3,000 Americans and drew the U.S. into the war. It also covers the U.S. development and dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, leading to Japan's surrender and the end of the war.
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The document summarizes key events of World War II in the Pacific theater between the United States and Japan. It discusses Japan's surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, which killed over 3,000 Americans and drew the U.S. into the war. It also covers the U.S. development and dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, leading to Japan's surrender and the end of the war.
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• USA against Japan • Reactions about this war • S-W-A-T: pearl harbor -Japan kamikaze pilot - nuclear bombes. • results of this war. Maps and positions
• Pearl Harbor, roadstead in the island of
Oahu, in the archipelago of Hawaii, to about 10 km to the west of the city of Honolulu, and that is one of the main naval bases of the United States in the Pacific. The Strike begin
• The Japanese aggression against the American
naval basis of Pearl Harbor. in morning of the Sunday 7 December 1941, of submarines and bombardiers of the air-sea Japanese attacked by surprise the American fleet of the Pacific to Pearl Harbor • Close to 3 000 soldiers and marine were killed and injured , while two hundred planes and many ships were destroyed to the either flowed soil. The reaction of USA
• 7, 1941, provoked the entrance in war of
the United States. • December 8, 1941, the Convention of the United States declared the war in Japan. • December 11, Germany and Italy declared the war in the United States. Kamikaze
• kamikazes (in Japanese, «divine wind»),
pilots of the Japanese air-forces that, during the last months of World War II, crushed their planes filled of explosives on ships, bombardiers and the American aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean voluntarily Creation of the bomb • J. Robert Oppenheimer In 1943, as director of the center of Los Alamos, the physicist American J. Robert Oppenheimer was put in charge of to elaborate the first atomic bomb
• The first atomic bomb (bomb A), a contraption to the
plutonium of a 22 kt strength, has been tested July 16, 1945 in the United States, close to Alamogordo (New- Mexico). The New Mexico bomb. Zero hour – finishing of the war • August 6, 1945, the bombardier Enola Gay drops the bomb on Hiroshima this bomb called “little boy” , . The heat and the breath of the explosion destroy buildings and kill 70 000 people, of soldieries and especially of civilians.
• August 9, a second bomb touches Nagasaki.
Called “fat Man” • The Japanese emperor asks for the capitulation the following day. September 2, 1945, the conflict stops officially. Effect of the atomic bomb
• . The very high temperatures reaches at the time of a
nuclear explosion result in the formation of an incandescent gas mass, the ball of fire. For an explosion of 10 Kt in the atmosphere, the ball of fire reaches a diameter of about 300 m. For a bomb of 10 Mt, the ball of fire can reach 4 km of diameter
• The thermal radiance provokes serious burns. An
explosion of 10 kt in the atmosphere could provoke, until 2,5 km of the point zero, of serious burns to the second degree. A bomb of 10 Mt could provoke burns until a distance of 30 km of the point zero. Generated By