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Executive Order 9066
This gave the American military to move all of the Japanese people that are in western america, into camps. The government was scared that the Japanse citizens might try to do something. The Japanese people were forced out of there homes into camps. The goverment later said that they acted poorly and they shouldn't have done what they did. -
The Bataan Death March
60,000 American and Filipino soldiers surrendered at the Battle of Bataan. The Japanese saw surrender as a very dishonorable act, and treated the American and Filipino soldiers and terribly as possible. The Prisioners of War were marched 80 miles to a camp where they would stay. The entire time, they were beaten and treated poorly. -
D-Day
American forces attacked the beaches of Normandy in a mass invasion of the German occupied France. The beaches were lined with a shear cliff, so it's was easily defendible and difficult to invade. German troops shot mowed down Ally forces as they walked onto the beach. The Allies eventually won all six of the beaches that they invaded. -
Auschwitz Liberation
Auschwitz was the largest extermination camp bult by the Germans. When the war was nearing it's end, we discoverd these death camps. The people inside were givin food and water. The American soliers that liberated these camps could not believe that and person was capable of doing such a thing to another human being. -
Raising the Flag on Mount Suribachi.
The photo was of four soldiers that had raised the American flag on the highest point of the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. At the time this photo was taken, the battle was still not over. The battle went on for another week, and the men in this picture died fighting four our country. This picture became very popular, being printing in news papers and magazins all over. This gave Americans something to cheer for. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
The Japanese refused to surrender to the Ally forces. They were to surrender, or face promp and utter destruction. They had refused, so we sent in highly trained pilots to drop the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Nearly half of the people in the city died with the single blow, of a single bomb.
