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Executive Order 9066
On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 was established to put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, because of the fear of some being enemy spies. Italian Americans and German Americans were also targeted by the order. After the war, the survivors from the camps were given apologiy letters and payments. -
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The Bataan March
April 9, 1942 was the start of the Bataan Death March. The Bataan Death March was when the Japanese military forced over 60,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war to march from the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell, covering a distance of 63 miles. The prisoners were given little food and no water, leaving them weak and malnourished. Anybody who stopped marching was most likely killed. By the end of the march, 7,000 to 10,000 lives were lost. -
D-Day
D-Day, also known as Operation Overlord, was an Allied attack against Germnay. It was carried out on June 6, 1944 and consisted of Allied troops storming the beaches of Normandy. Normandy was split into four sections: Utah, Gold, Juno, Sword, and Omaha (Omaha being where the main fighting took place.) The fighting was carried out through airbourne assaults and amphibious landings. The end of D-Day resulted in 10,000 Allied casualties and losses, 6,000 of which were Americans. -
Auschwitz Liberation
On January 27, 1945, Soviet military liberated a concentration camp in Nazi Germany by the of Auschwitz. Auschwitz was one of the many concentration camps used for the brutal genocide of thousands of Jewish decendants and other minorities. The liberation of Auscwitz meant the freeing of over 7,000 prisoners. The liberation of the camp received little press because of propaganda purposes. -
Raising the Flag on Mount Suribachi
On February 23, 1945, the famous photograph was taken of American Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima. There were six American marines who took part in the raising of the flag, three of which died afterward in battle. The living three became popularized as American war heroes on their return to the U.S. The raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi became a major symbol of American strength. -
Bombing Hiroshima
On August 6, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan by American military forces. It was the result of Japan not agreeing to the offer of unconditional surrender. The bomb erased roughly 90% of the city, killing an estimated 80,000 people, later killing 10,000 from exposure to radiation. Three days later, another atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, later leading to Japan's unconditional surrender.
