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+The End of WWII and the Origins of the Cold War
+- How did the US end the war in the Pacific?
+- How did the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union begin?
+
+Japan had successfully captured many colonies in the Pacific.
+In Phillippines, soldiers forced to march hundreds of miles in 6 days.
+    10K die
+US not doing good in battle.
+Victory Disease pushes Japan into Australia.
+- US wins Battle of the Coral Sea
+    - The Battle of Midway was battleship attack by Japan
+        - Military code cracked, so US headed to the fleet; crippled
+          Japanese fleet
+            - first major Japanese navy defeat in >300yrs
+        - developed island hopping strategy to reduce Japanese power in
+          the Pacific
+            - Cut Japanese off from natural resources
+            - Kamikazes began to develop
+            - Japanese were hurt worse than American forces
+- US secures Okinawa and Iwo Jima in bloody battles
+    - Okinawa was an amphibious operation w/ 300K troops over 3mo
+    - Begin invading mainland Japan
+    - Allied Commanders set up bombing raids over Japan in Summer of
+      1944
+    - Napalm dropped on Tokyo, incinerating 16 sq mi, killing thousands,
+      dehoming a million.
+        - No qualms about harming civilians
+        - Burning of Manilla, brutal treatment of Chinese civilians,
+          PoWs had eroded military sympathy for the Japanese.
+    - Firebombing; no public outcry
+    - Japanese refused to surrender.
+        - Began considering The Ultimate Weapon (atomic bomb)
+            - Manhattan Project established in response to Germans
+              developing a bomb of their own.
+            - Damage from the bomb underestimated
+        - GB recognized puppet gov'ts in Eastern Europe. US said it
+          would veto participation in UN until democracy established.
+    - Potsdam Declaration - Japan must surrender by Aug 3.
+        - The deadline passed, and bomber heads for Hiroshima.
+        - The Hiroshima bomb killed 78K instantly. 70K instantly at
+          Nagasaki
+            - "like a glimpse into hell"
+        - August 14, 1945: V-J Day as Japanese emperor accepts surrender
+
+- Stalin increasingly became to believe US threatened Soviets
+    - Hugely increasing military power of the US
+    - For every American killed in WW2, 59 Soviets died
+    - Reshaped and transformed int'l relations and societies
+    - Fall of China to Communism
+    - American Hegemony
+    - Developed internationalism over isolationism
+    - Expansion of Fed. Gov. increased after 1945
+        - Pres authority also continued to increase greatly
+    - Cold War was fundamentally "communism vs capitalism,"
+      "totalitarianism vs democracy"
+        - A war of words
+        - Collapsed after the German threat went away
+
+ENDED AT PART TWO