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World War 2
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked the United States without warning. This attacked lasted for 110 minutes and started at 7 in the morning; -
Murder in Death Camps
Nazi leaders made the decison to move toward Hitler's "Final Solution". Rehinhard Heydrich outlined a plan to exterminare about 11,000,000 Jews. Although the minutes of the meeting do not use the word "kill" everyone there understood that killing was their goal. -
Turning the Tide in the Pacific
Japanese forces continued to advance with unstoppable forward motion. They attacked American, Birtish, and Dutch colonies, winning control of the Phillippines,Malaya,Dutch East Indies,Hong Kong, Guam, and Burma. -
Battle of Midway
This battle was a turning point of the war in the Pacific, ending the "known" unstoppable Japense advance. Chester Nimitz already knew Japan plan, so he sent his only available aircraft carriers to Midway.Japan was now on the defensive side of the war. -
Migration Triggers Conflict
In Detroit, Michigan conflict erupted over the construction of housing for black workers drawn north to defense plants.100,000 blacks and whites broke into fights in the city park. Next day riots started killing 34 people. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
This battle was fought between Japanese and Allied navies from May 4 to May 8 1942. Japan and Allied both sent airplanes to attack each other,but their attacks occurred at the same time at 200 miles apart, which killed a lot of people. -
Western Allies Invading France
Western Allies invaded France while the Soviet Union invaded Germany and their Allies, Soviet troops captured Berlin in the war in Europe. -
Defeat!
The United States deafeated the Japanese Navy. And the invasion of the Japanese home lands started -
Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu argued that he was denied equal protection under the law simply because he was a Japanese American. . The court held that the military order was justified for security reasons. Three judges dissented, -
The A-Bomb
In the brren area outside of Alamogordo, New Mexico, the first atomic bomb was tested. The flash of light was clearly visible 180 miles away, and sound was heard at a distance of 100 mile. Watching the blast, Ooppenheimer recalled the followng from a poem: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." -
Holocaust
(The Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under their control). The mass mrders of Jewa were a direct result of a racist Nazi ideology that considered Aryans superior to other people. -
Yalta Conference
The big three agreed that Poland,Bulgaria, and Romania would hold free elections. However, Stalin later reneged on this promise. Roosevelt and Churchill were not in a good position to press Stalin too hard., -
Germany Instrument of Surrender
An legal instrument that established Germany wanted to end World War 2 in Europe (by their representives), Stalin wanted space between Germany and Russia so there want be another war! -
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
U.S pilots dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. It exploded at 8:15 a.m. Within two minutes, more than 60,000 og Hiroshima's 340,00 residents were dead of missing. Over the next three days, Japanese leaders debated whether to surrender.
