Dear Andrew, Anabel, Caleb, Rebecca, and Nikki:
We missed you today! Personally I am glad there were 5 less water balloons headed my direction but am sorry you missed the wrap up to WWII and our review.
Here is what you missed:
FDR's death shaking the nation in April 1945
Eisenhower choosing to let Stalin take Berlin
Germany's surrender May 8th
The bloody battle to take Okinawa in which 92,000 Japanese soldiers and 100,000 Jap civilians died fighting to the death. The US lost 16,000 men. This convinced the US that the Japanese would defend their home islands to the death. They had an army of 6.5 million plus they armed their civilians to resist an Allied invasion. US planners estimated that 500,000 Americans and 6 million Japanese would die if the US invaded Japan.
As a result President Truman chose to drop two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing 500,000 Japanese over a 5 year period due to the radiation. Emperor Hirohito finally agreed to surrender after the 2nd bomb thinking we may have more (which we didn't) and the treaty was signed on Sept 2nd, 1945.
Once we finished the war we finished Alicia. The summary of the last 6 chapters will be my next post.
The Unit Test Part A on Tuesday will be on the Bible, Logic, Ethics, and Alicia. Part B on Wednesday will cover WWII. Mr. B
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Mr. Buresh, I am so confused on what is on the test tomorrow! Zoe and Isaac told me that you took a lot of the vocab off so I didn't study that, I was told that all we had to know for tomorrow was alicia vocab and we had to answer questions about the bible. If not, what else do we have to know? The notes that were sent home for me unfortunatley didn't make sense, and all I got was study guide notes, chronological order sheets, a map and a bunch of random facts and dates. Please help!
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