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Executive Order 9066
President Roosevelt gave out the Executive Order 9066 which had a goal of removing people of Japan heritage from the Western United States. This removal was mostly from California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. FDR iniated this order because with 110,000 Japanese in America there could be a possible threat of spying. Out of the 110,000 Japanese Americans sent to internment camps, two thirds of them were American citizens and the other third were aliens of the U.S. -
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The Bataan March
While on the Philippines General Douglas MacArthur and his troops were pushed back and corned in the Bataan Peninsula. MacArthur was forced to leave because of illness and a month later the troops, 60,000 Americans and 10,000 Filipinos surrendered. These soldiers were forced to march five days and five nights for sixty three miles in rough terrain and horrible conditions. In result 7,000 to 10,000 soldiers died in the march because of conditions, and rough treatment by Japanese soldiers. -
D-Day
D-Day can be desribed as when three and a half million allied soldiers stormed Normandy Beach in Normandy, France. This event is also referred to as H-Hour. It consisted of a plan called Operation Overlord in which the goal was to launch a large invasion of the Axis powers on the mainland of Europe. Besides forces storming the beach there was also troops who parachuted behind enemy lines at night and allied aircraft provided cover for the beach head invasion. -
Auschwitz Liberation
Auschwitz was the biggest camp that the Germans had when it came to concentration camps. This camp was located thirty seven miles from Krakow near the pre-war German-Polish border. Auschwitz was compiled of a concentration camp, extermination camp, and forced-labor camp which was the ultimate camp in the eyes of the German. Soviet Army liberators rescued about 7,000 prisoners but most were ill and dieing when the liberators reached Auschwitz. -
Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi
After short fighting Americans reached the highest point of Iwo Jima, Mount Suribachi, and raised the American flag but there was still much fighting before the battle ended. The picture of the five U.S. Marines and one U.S. Navy Corpsman raising the flag became a wide known picture back in the United States. This picture sparked great emotion back home and eventually won the Publitzer Prize for Photography the same year that it was published. Three of the marines were actually kiled afterwards. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
A U.S. B-29 dropped the world's first Atomic Bomb over Hiroshima, Japan in the August of 1945. The U.S. did this because of Japan's refusal of unconditional surrender. After dropped, the bomb wipped out ninety percent of the city and 80,000 people were instantly killed. Later on, tens of thousands of Japan citizens died because of radiation exposure from the bomb. Nine days later Japanese emperor declared Japan's unconditional surrender to the United States of America in a radio broadcast.
