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executive Order 9066
Is when it gave the military the power to ban any citizen in a 50 to 60 mile strech. From extending to California, Washington, and to southern Arizona. It put Japanese-Americans into camps cause we felt threatend by them -
The Bataan March
75,000 soldiers became prisoners of war. What followed was one of the worst atrocities in wartime history. They were lead by General McArthur who abanded them. -
D-Day
D-Day is when 160,000 troops landed on 50-mile strech of beaches. 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft helped the operation. We got Normandy but at a heavy cost of 9,000 killed or wounded -
Auschwitz liberation
Is when Soviet forces entered the Auschwitz complex. They evacuated the camp and made all of them march west. They found 7,000 prisioners nearly dead or very ill. -
Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi
This is when some Marines bravely put the american flag on Mount Suribachi then put the second one on. They did this while the battle was still going on. About 550 marines died and 1,800 were wounded. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Killed 80,000 people instantly. People would later die from radiation from the bomb. The atom bomb wiped out 90 percent of the city.
