20 significant events of WWII

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    bombs on london

    Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941 there were major raids with more than 100 tonnes of high explosives were dropped on 16 British cities. London, was attacked 71 times and bombed by the Luftwaffe for 57 consecutive nights.
  • Internment Camps

    120,000 Japanese American in internment camp. Japanese American who lived along the coast were put in the camps.
  • D-day

    160,00 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy.
  • President Roosevelt died

    President Roosevelt died after WWII.
  • Mussolini died

    he was summarily executed by Italian Communists in the small village of Giulino di Mezzegra in northern Italy.
  • Hitler's death

    Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by taking cyanide.
  • Death March

    After the April 9, 1942, U.S. surrender of the Bataan Peninsula on the main Philippine island of Luzon to the Japanese during World War II, the approximately 75,000 Filipino and American troops on Bataan were forced to make an arduous 65-mile march to prison camps.