World War II - Pacific (I-O)
World War II - Pacific (I-O)
- Incendiary (fire) Bombs over Tokyo: Eyewitness accounts
of death and devastation
- Incendiary (fire) Bombs over Tokyo: Photos from
national archives
- Intercepted Japanese Messages: Pointed to likely
war
- Internment Camps: Japanese-Americans forced to relocate
- Closing Businesses: Photos from national
archives
- Congressman's Idea: Presidential approval - (see fourth
paragraph)
- Conviction Overturned: Using guise of national
security, government violated Japanese-American's rights
- Evacuees: Facts and photographs
- Executive Order 9066: American citizens "excluded" from
homes/businesses
- Internment Camps: Photographs from national
archives
- Korematsu, Fred: Guilty of ignoring exclusion
order
- Leaving Home: Photographs from the national
archives
- Legalized Racism: Justice Frank Murphy,
dissent
- Manzanar: California internment camp
- Minidoka: Idaho internment camp
- No Threat to West Coast Security: U.S. government
suppressed its own findings
- Poston: Arizona internment camp
- Topaz: Utah internment camp
- Tule Lake: A "segregation center"
- Closing Businesses: Photos from national
archives
- Iwo Jima, Battle of: Pivotal victory in the
Pacific
- Amphibious Landing: Difficult to get everything, and
everyone, ashore
- Armada Arrives: 880 American vessels
- Battle Scenes: Official photos from national archives
and U.S. Marines
- Bombardment: Japanese reaction to pre-invasion
shelling
- Code-talkers (Navajo): "Operating around the
clock"
- "Courageous battle vow" - Japanese vow to fight
- D-Day on Iwo Jima: 19 February 1945
- Defenses: Japanese-created defenses, Iwo Jima
Island
- Flag Raisers: Identities
- Flag raisers: Deaths of
- Flag-raising Photograph: Original flag-raising by U.S.
Marines
- Flag-raising Photograph: Famous picture was of a
replacement flag
- Letters from Iwo Jima: Letters, left behind on Iwo
Jima, from Japanese soldiers to their loved ones
- Medal of Honor Recipients: Includes pictures and
narratives
- Pacific Island: Owned by Japan, so fiercely
defended
- Strategic Value: Why defending/capturing Iwo Jima was
important
- Suribachi: Dormant volcano
- Amphibious Landing: Difficult to get everything, and
everyone, ashore
- "Kill-All Policy" - Exhibit 2015 (Tokyo War Crimes
Trial)
- Nagasaki: Second Use of Atomic Bomb
- B-29, Bockscar: Dropped bomb on
Nagasaki
- B-29, Pilot: Major Charles Sweeney
- Casualties: Deaths, injuries and radiation
sickness
- Damage: Property
- Effects: Of ground explosion on plane
- Plutonium Bomb: Called "Fat Man" - (see last
paragraph)
- Press Release: President Truman to American
people
- Reason to Use: President Truman's
reasons
- B-29, Bockscar: Dropped bomb on
Nagasaki
- Nanking Massacre
- All Captives Slain: Eyewitness
account
- Casualties: Cables Discussing - (see paragraphs three
and four)
- Photos: Graphic evidence - (see bullet
points)
- All Captives Slain: Eyewitness
account
- Navajo Code: The code, created by Navajo Marines, which
helped to defeat the Japanese
- Navajo Code Talkers: The men who created the unbroken
code
- Occupation of Japan: Post-war, McArthur in charge
Biographies
History
- American Colonies
- American Revolution - Highlights
- Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Assassination of John F. Kennedy
- Auschwitz: Place of Horrors
- Book Burning and Censorship
Disasters
- America Attacked: 9/11
- Black Death
- Challenger Disaster
- Columbia Space Shuttle Explosion
- Deepwater Horizon: Disaster in the Gulf
- Fatal Voyage: The Titanic


















