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This act is also known as the Burke-Wadsworth Act, it required men from ages twenty-one to thirty-five to register for the draft and eighteen to forty-five for military service so all men eighteen to sixty-five registered.
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This order gave the military power to place Japanese Americans in military prisons; it also applied to smaller numbers of the residents of the U.S.
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After the defenders of the Philipines surrendered, 78,000 American prisoners were forced to march. Sick, exhausted, and starving they marched 65 miles to a prison camp. Almost 10,000 troops died while on this march, giving it the name "The Bataan Death March".
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This was the first air raid by the US to strike Japanese Homelands during World War II. This boosted the opportunity and motivation for Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
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American soldiers left a clever trap for four Japanese carriers to be destructed, the trap broke the back of the empire's naval and air power.
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Allies fought against the Germans to breakthrough the Winter Line and seize Rome. This took place in Italy and lasted until May of the same year.
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General Eisenhower was in charge of keeping the British and American commanding allies together.
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To start off the invasion, 1,100 American planes landed troops throughout Normandy with orders to seize key rail and road junctions and to ambush German units.
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German troops launched a counter-offensive along the border of Belgium and Luxembourg. This was the biggest and bloodiest battle American soldiers fought.
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Wanting to defend their honor, the Japanese military used every weapon they had, when they couldn't handle the weight of the war any longer, they resulted to suicide; known as kamikaze.
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The surpise attack, known as the Last Stand, was launched by the Germans on the the U.S., which gave them a small upper-hand in the war. Hitler's target was to divide the Britsh and American alliance.
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The Germans temporarily broke through the allied lines only holding off the war for six weeks.
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Both Britain and America celebrated when German troops finally laid down their arms and surrended to avoid imprisonment.
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Along with Europe, Japan surrendered to the allies, finally ending WWII.
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These were the first and only events that contained nuclear weapons in war to date. The first bomb, which happened in Hiroshima, was called Little Boy; this bomb killed 66,000 people. and the second bomb, which took place in Nagasaki, was called Fat Man killed 80,000 people. A few days after the bombing, Japan surrendered to the allies; this day was known as V-J Day.
