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WWII Events
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Auschwitz Liberation
The Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 sick, illness prisoners. Freeing survivors at conceration camp. Before the Soviet came, the Germans did a mass killing spree and the only surviors were the 7,000. -
Executive Order 9066
FDR gave the military broad powers to ban any citizen from a fifty- to sixty-mile-wide coastal area stretching from Washington state to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. The order also authorized transporting these citizens to assembly centers hastily set up and governed by the military in California, Arizona, Washington state, and Oregon.The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas. -
The Bataan March
In 1942, General Douglas MacArthur was forced to leave the troopes due to illness. A month later 10,000 American and 60,000 Fillipino troops surrender. They were sick adn starving soldiers who still marched. They marched for five days and nights. Those who dropped out of line were beaten or shot and those who fell down were left for dead. -
D-Day
D-Day was an Operation Overlord. The Allies wanted to launch large invasion of mainland Europe. They hit at the Beaches of Norwandy. Omar Bradley lead the American Troops. Planning and speed were very vital. -
Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi
U.S. Marines raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, the highest point on the island of Iwo Jima.Later, Marine commanders decide to raise a second, larger flag, an event which an Associated Press photographer captured on film. The resulting photograph became a defining image of the war. This picture gave American hope. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people.
