WW2 Timeline

By Zoie Benedict

  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066
    The Executive Order 9066 authorized the Secretary of war to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventuallly cleared the deportation of the Japanese Americans to internment camps. The executive order was spurred by a combination of war hysteria and reactions to the Niihau Incident.

  • D-Day

    D-Day
    160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily fortifed French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, and France. More than 5,000 ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the invasion. More than 9,000 allied soldiers were killed or wounded. More than 100,000 soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.

  • Auschwitz Liberation

    Auschwitz Liberation
    Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. A complex of camps, Auschwitz included a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp.Nearly 60,000 prisoners were forced to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. More than 15,000 died during the death marches from Auschwitz.

  • Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi

    Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi
    A historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a United States Navy corpsman raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi[1] during the Battle of Iwo Jima.The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications.

  • The Bataan March

    The Bataan March
    The forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000-80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. Approximately 2,500–10,000 Filipino and 100-650 American prisoners of war died before they could reach their destination at Camp O'Donnel. The march went from Mariveles, Bataan, to San Fernando, Pampanga.

  • Bombing of Hiroshima

    Bombing of Hiroshima
    The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II. A Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, followed by a Fat Man bomb on the city of Nagasaki on 9 August.On 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies.