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Movies and Entertainment
During the 1940s, there were more movie theaters than banks. When American troops began fighting, many people went to the movie theaters to learn what was going on as well as to distract them from the horrors of the war. -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
America offered many offers to Japan for them to withdraw from the war, but they didn't listen to it. Instead, they bombed Pearl Harbor as part of their campaign. They took minimal losses while America lost 4 battleships, many cruisers, and 2,100 servicemen. -
The Holocaust
Adolf Hitler created concentration camps and forced mainly Jews to go to them. Hitler's goals were to completely destroy the Jews by starvation, poisoning, working them to death, and diseases. -
D-Day
D-Day was a combination of American, Canadian, and British forces that assaulted the beaches of Normandy. Their goal was to clear the way for over1 million troops to invade Germany. -
Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
President Truman wanted to have as little American losses as possible during World War 2, so two atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This caused Japan to surrender.