HST 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Iwo Jima, United States Marine Corps, Operation Downfall
Document Summary
War in the pacific, part iii: pushing the japanese back toward japan. - the battle for iwo jima (february 1945) - the battle for okinawa (april 1945: film clip: horror in the east (bbc) - kamikazes and allied atrocities: the strategic bombing of japan. Le may and the war crimes question: the final days of the second world war. - operation downfall and the perils of invasion. - president truman and the atomic bomb. - hiroshima, nagasaki and the japanese surrender. Japanese fought ferociously and were determined to accept death first ;esp on the. Japanese unable to hold the island and not able to fight off the large economic and supply resources that us had. Crimes against peace; planning, preparation, initiationand waging aggressive war ; waging war on aggression and not defensive: 2. War crimes; pre-existing charges based on geneva charges; murder, ill trewatment and deportation and destruction of citiies: 3.
