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Executive Order 9066
The Excutive Order 9066 was an order signed and issued by FDR that autorized the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. It also allowed the power to remove people to leave zones. The obvious goal was to remove people of Jampanese heritage from the western states. Japanese Americans were sent to interment camps were life was hard and cramped with few furnishings. -
The Bataan March
After 70000 Filipino and American troops surrendered to the Japanese they became prisoners of war. While the Japanese attacked Corregidor, they led their prisoners on a forced march our of Bataan. No food, no water, 5days and nights and 60 miles to walk . Somewhere between 5000 and 1000 didnt make it. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
As the Soviet Union Army, the Red Army, approached towards Poland the Auschwitz prisoners were marched west by the Nazis, into Germany. The few thousand remaining were too ill to travel and were left to be shot by the SS. There was some confusion and the SS left them alive. The Soviet Untion Army found them and the prisoners were grateful. -
D-day
Also known as Operation Overlord, D-day was a incasion of Normandy. The attack started with parachuters dropping behind German lines to secure key sites. Allied aircrafts filled the air to cover the troops that were also coming by sea. In the end, the operation was a success with all 5 of the beaches secured. -
Raising the Flag at Mount Suribachi
When U.S. Marines stormed the beaches of Iwo Jima they made easy targets for the Japanese that were hiding in hidden concrete bunkers. Also another threat were the Japanese on Mount Suribachi. Americans knew that the extinct volcano on the southern tip of the island needed to be captured. On the morning of the 23rd a group of Marines finally made it to the top of Mount Suribachi and raised the American flag. The battles at Iwo Jima were some of the bloodiest, loosing 25000 -
Bombing of Hiroshima
After Roosevelt died in April of 1945, Harry S. Truman became president. He had known nothing abbout the atomic bomb prior to presidentcey and formed a group to advise him about using the bomb. the group decided to use it. On August 6th 1945, an American B-29 named the Enola Gay flew over the city of Hiroshima and dropped the atomic bomb. Some 80000 died and 35000 were injured.
