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Executive Order 9066
The goal of the Executive Order was to remove people with Japanese heritage living in the Western United States. They were mostly in California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. Two thirds of the 100,000 Japanese-Americans were citizens, but all were sent to internment camps. -
The Bataan March
Sick, starving solldiers marched for five days and five nights to Camp O'Donnell. Many died before they even arrived at the camp. If people fell because of tiredness, they were left to die. Some who dropped out of the lines were beaten and shot, but not nearly like the marching in the Holocaust. -
D-Day
Operation Overlord was also called D-Day. What the Allies wanted to do was launch a large invasion of the mainland of Europe. So, they invaded the beaches of Normandy. Omar Bradley had led the American troops. In this case, speed and planning are very important. -
Auschwitz Liberation
Soviet forces were the ones to help the victims at Auschwitz and were the first ones to arrive there. Germans tried to hide the evidence of the mass genocide, so they demolished as much as they could. -
Raising the Flag on Mount Suribachi
Six of the American troops raised an American flag on the top of Mount Suribachi. Only three of the soldiers survived the war and the others were killed. One was a Native American and he didn't really feel like a hero after this major event. -
The Bombing of Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber was dropped over the city of Hiroshima, Japan. 90% of the city was destroyed and 80,000 people died instantly. Later, tens of thousands of people died from radiation. Only a few days later, another bombing took place at Nagasaki when 40,000 people died from this one. So Japan's emperor surrendered because the scecond B-29 dropped another A-Bomb.
