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Executive Order 9066
The order led to the internment of the Japanese Americans, some 120,000 ethnic Japanese people were held in internment camps for the duration of the war. Of the Japanese interned, 62% were American-born who were natural born American citizens. The rest were children of nisei, also American citizens and Japanese immigrants. -
The Bataan March
60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. All told, approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100-650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnell.The reported death tolls vary, especially amongst Filipino because historians cannot determine how many prisoners blended in with the civilian population and escaped. -
D-Day
Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies went on a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Aushwitz Liberation
The Red Army liberated the Nazis' biggest concentration camp at Auschwitz in south-western Poland. Hundreds of thousands of Polish people, as well as Jews from a number of other European countries, have been held prisoner there in appalling conditions and many have been killed in the gas chambers. -
Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi
During the battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines raise the American flag on top of Mt. Suribachi, the highest point on the island of Iwo Jim Later, Marine commanders decide to raise a second, larger flag, an event which a photographer captured on film. The resulting photograph became a defining image of the war. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
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 tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure.
