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Exectutive Order 9066
The goal of Executive Order 9066 was to remove people o fthe Japanese heritage from the western US. They were taking japanese people out of states like California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. They rounded 110,000 japanese and put them into internment camps. Two-thirds of those were americans. America was afraid that the Japanese Americans were spys for Japanese. -
The Bataan Death March
The Americans and Phillipines surrendered to Japan. For five days and night the americans and phillipines marched. Those who dropped out were beaten or shot. If you fell down you were left to die. The soldiers were sick and starving, it kind of resembled a death march like in the holocaust. -
D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wou -
Auschwitz liberation
The majority of the troops at Auschwitz were sent on a death march. The rest were liberated on January 27th. The soviet solders encountered 648 corpses and more than 7,000 starving camp surviviors. In anticipation of the soviet arrival, the Germans began a nurder spree in the camps to try and cover up the evidence. They also had houses full of men and women's clothing that they were going to burn to cover up the evidence. -
Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi
The marine soldiers raised the flag on February 23rd, 1945. Six Marine soldiers were in the picture of the flag raising. Three of those soldiers died in action after they raised the flag. Those three soldiers were: Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and Michael Strank. The image was later used to make a sculpture called the Marine Corps War Memorial. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6th, 1945, an american B-29 bomber dropped the worlds first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. They explosion wiped out 90% of the city. 80,000 of those were killed immediately. Tens of thousands more would die later because of radiation exposure. Three days later a second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, another Japanese city.
