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Executive Order 9066
This is the date that President Roosevelt ordered all Japanese Americans on the west coast to move to internment camps. This gave them very little time to prepare, and they often didn't have time to sell their homes. They lived in simple houses with moderate conditions. -
Bataan Death March
This death march occurred when 10,000 American and 60,000 Filipino soldiers surendered to the Japanese at the Bataan Peninsula in the Philipines. General MacArthur recently abandoned his troops there, promising that he would return. -
Operation Overlord
This was the major invasion of Europe by the Allied Forces in 1944. Known as "D-Day", it was a major turn of the tide of the war. It was the single largest military nvasion in the history of the world. -
Auschwitz Liberation
The Red Army of the Soviet Union liberated the German concentration camp at Auschitz on this date. The place was motly deserted and most of the cematoria and gas chambers have been destroyed, and the prisoners marched to other camps. The few people remaining were prisoners that were abandoned by the Germans who cared not for their safety and health. -
Raising of the Flag on Mount Suribachi
This marks the time the U.S. Marines raised the American Flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. The fighting on the island was not over after the flag raising, though. The Japanese refused to surrender and fought to the last man on the island. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
This is that day that the Americans dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb was dropped by the B-29 bomber named the 'Enola Gay'. This attack served to try to end the war without an invasion of Japan.
