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Executive Order 9066
Executive Order 9066 was the order made by President Roosevelt for Japanese to be placed into internment camps. The goal was to move people of Japanese heritage from the western U.S. 2/3 of the 110,000 affected were American citizens, the others were aliens. After the war the suriviors of the camps received letters of apology and payment from the government. -
Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death march was when the Japanese forced American and Filipino prisoners to march. They marched for 63 miles from one end of the Bataan Peninsula to the other. The conditions were horrible and the treatment was harsh. There was about 7,000 to 10,000 deaths. -
D-Day
D-Day was the day when Allied powers landed on 5 beaches on France's Normandy region. There was more than 160,000 Allied troops that landed along a 50-mile stretch of the French coastline. It was one of the largest amphibious military attacks in history. It is known as the beginning of the end of the war. -
Auschwitz Liberation
In mid-January of 1945, the Soviet Union reached Auschwitz. They encountered around 650 corpses and more than 7,000 starving camp survivors. They also found hundreds of thousands of women's dresses, men's suits, and shoes that the Germans didn't have time to get rid of to destroy evidence. -
Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi - Iwo Jima
During the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raised a flag atop Mount Suribachi. A photographer captured the moment, and it became a defining image for the war. This photograph gave Americans hope that we would win the war. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. It was the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT. The explosion wiped of about 90% of the city. It killed 80,000 people immediatley, and tens of thousands more died later from radiation exposure.
