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authorHolden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev>2020-10-26 22:48:16 -0400
committerHolden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev>2020-10-26 22:49:01 -0400
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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