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The goal of Executive Order 9066 was to remove people o fthe Japanese heritage from the western US. They were taking japanese people out of states like California, Washington, Oregon, and Arizona. They rounded 110,000 japanese and put them into internment camps. Two-thirds of those were americans. America was afraid that the Japanese Americans were spys for Japanese.
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The Bataan March is when the Japanese led the Filipino and American troops about 63 miles. In this march there were 72,00 prisioners. The individuals who couldnt keep up or fell behind we shot and left.
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Allied invaded the beaches of Normandy. Hitler thought this was just a trick getting him distracted for a bigger attack. The Americans suffered about 6,600 casualties.
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The Soviet army liberated more than 7,000 people from Auschwitz, most were either ill or dying. There was thought to be about (at minimum) 1.3 million people deported to Aucschwitz. Days before the liberation thousands had been murdered or forced to march west of the camp.
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This was the time during Iwo Jima that our troops raised the flag on Mount Suribachi, the highest point on the island. The people in this photo were looked at as heros by our country. We ended up winning the battle.
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The United States sent a warning to Japan that if they didn't back off then mass destruction is coming. They didn't so on August 6, 1945 the U.S sent the atomic bomb to Hiroshima. It caused a lot of destruction in the city and killed almost 66,000 people and thousands more form radiation.
