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Executive Order 9066
The goal was to remove people of Japaness heritage from the westeren United States. Two thirds of the 110,000 affected were americans. The order led to the internment of the Japanese Americans, (often known as AJAs, Americans of Japanese Ancestry); some 120,000 ethnic Japanese people were held in internment camps for the duration of the war. -
The Bataan March
Suck, Starving soldiers Marched for 5 days and 5 night. The soldiers who dropped out of line were shot and beaten never left breaathing. The ones who did fall they were left for dead but the Japaneses made sure they were shot first before left. -
D-Day
Allies wanted to launch a large invasion of Mainland and Europe. It happened on the Beaches of Normandy. During D-Day Hitler thought Normandy was a trick. -
Aschwitz Liberation
Nearly 60,000 prisoners were forced to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. Tens of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to march to the city of Wodzislaw in the western part of Upper Silesia -
Raising of the Flag on Mount Suribachi
On February 23, 1945, during the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi. It was taken down, and a second flag was raised. Now part of U.S. Navy records, it is one of the most famous war flag raisings in U.S. history. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, the United States used a massive, atomic weapon against Hiroshima, Japan. This atomic bomb, the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, flattened the city, killing tens of thousands of civilians. While Japan was still trying to comprehend this devastation three days later, the United States struck again, this time, on Nagasaki.
