HIST 2710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Potsdam Declaration, Firebombing, 1973 Oil Crisis
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Lecture 22: the war and aftermath in japan [textbook = chapter 26] The us intelligence break japanese navy code; the japanese were unable to seize midway ended japanese supremacy at sea. Allied forces can be diverted to the far east. The americans leapfrog across the central and southwest pacific bypassing well-defined islands. Japanese neutralize or destroy us and british battle fleets. The allies were unsupported by their colonial subjects. March 1945: one night, bombing in tokyo killed 100,000 people. *potsdam declaration (july 26, 1945): started during the second half of 1944. Firebombing raids in 1845 occurred in every major city, except kyoto. 40% of osaka and nagoya were destroyed, 50% of tokyo, kobe, and yokohama. By early august 1945: some 66 japanese cities had been largely destroyed. Over 600,000 japanese people were killed, 1,000,000 injured, and 8 million evacuated. The us, england, and china call for unconditional surrender on the part of the japanese.
