World War II: Pacific Theater
I. America and the Allies March Toward Japan
A. Island Hopping Campaign of 1942-1945
B. America's Losses in the Pacific
C. Battle of Okinawa, April-June 1945
D. "Kamikaze"
E. Curtis LeMay & Strategic Bombing in the Pacific
F. Potsdam Declaration, Summer 1945
II. America's Secret Weapon
A. The Manhattan Project
B. Trinity Test, July 1945
C. Operation Olympic
D. President Truman's Options
III. Japan's Final Defeat
A. Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
B. Nagasaki, 9 August 1945
C. Japanese Surrender and WWII Ends, 1 September 1945
Terms:
Ryukyu Island Chain
Code of Bushido
Robert Oppenheimer