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Executive Order 9066
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authoized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. In the nxt 6 months, over 100,000 men, women and children of Japanese encestry were moved to assembly centers. They were then evacuated to and confined in isolated, fenced and guarded relocatin centers, known as internment camps. -
The Bataan March
The Bataan ( Death) March was the force march of American and Filipino prisoners of war by the Japanese during Worls War II. The 63- mile march began with 72,000 prisnoers from the southern end from the Bataan Peninsula in the Phillipines on April 9, 1942. The horrible conditions and harsh treatment of the prisoners during the Bataan Death March resulted 7,000 to 10,000 deaths. -
D-Day
The Allies wanted to launch a large invasion of the mainland Europe. The maingoal were the beaches of the Normandy. Omar Bradley leaded the American troops. Speed and planning were here vital. On June 6,1944 3.5 million soldiers parachuted behind the German lines. The Allied aircraft provided power. 10,000 allied and 6,000 americans died. Hitler thought the attack on the Normandy was just a trick and a liitle hint for the actually attack. But he was wrong. -
Auschiwtz liberation
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans.A complex of camps, Auschwity included a concentration, extermination and forced-labor camp. It was located 37 miles west of Krakow( Cracow), near the prewar German-Polish border. On January 27,1945 the Soviet army enterd Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. -
Raising th flag on Mount Suribachi
On February 23, 1945, during the battle of iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi. It was taken down and a second flag was raised. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured this second flag-raising. Now part of U.S. Navy records, it is one of the most famous war photographs in U.S. history. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6,1945, during World War II ( 1939-45) American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explotion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immdeiatly killed 80,000 people, tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later second B-29 bomber dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killed about 40,000 people.
