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Executive Order 9066
It was a presedential executive order signed and issued during WWII by Franklin D. Roosevelt. It's when president FDR authorizes the removal of all or any people from military areas as deemed necessary or desirable. By June, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans were relocated to remote internment camps built by the U.S. millitary in scattered locations around the country. -
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WWII MAJOR EVENTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
A time line featuring key events that took place in WWII. -
The Bataan March
The Bataan Death March was when the Japanese forced American and Filipino prisoners of war to march. The soldiers that were forced to march were sick and starving to death. Those who dropped out of the march were either shot at or beaten, and those who fell got easily trampled and killed. It lasted five days and nights. The destination was at camp O'Donnell. The whole line was guarded by many Japanese soldiers, there was no escape because those who tried were easily shot at. -
D-Day
D-Day, also known as the operation overload, was the invasion of Normandy, France. Omar Radley was the leader of the American troops. There were 10,000 casualties that day. -
Raising the flag on Mount Suribachi
The photograph was taken by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy corpesmen raising an American flag ontop of mount Suribachi which is in the island of Iwo Jima. Three of themwere killed when raising the flag. The ones that survived later became celebrities after their identification in the photograph. -
Auschwitz Liberation
American forces arrive at Buchenwald and liberate many people, mostly Jews. The Nazis abondened the place shortly after the Americans arrived. Buchenwald was the largest killling center and concentration camp. Out of the 250,000 prisoners in that camp, only 21,000 were found. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
An American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. About 66,000 out of the 225,000 people died. The U.S. warned Japan about this but they didn't surrender, Japan later regreted it. The plane that dropped the atomic bomb was called the Enola Gay.
