Sept. 2, 1945

Japanese representatives signed official document to surrender

This happened during a ceremony on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri off the coast of Tokyo

This ended WW2

April 20, 1952

The state war officially ended

A written peace treaty with Japan

treaty of San Francisco came into force

Aug. 6, 1945

a U.S. Boeing B-29 aircraft dropped an atomic bomb known as "Little Boy" on Hiroshima

Another bomb dropped three days later

This was dropped on Nagasaki

June 6, 1944

They delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France

The invasion force included 7,000 ships

Almost 133,000 troops from the United States, the British Commonwealth, and their allies landed on D-Day

September 30, 1928-July 2,2016

Holocaust survivor, author, Nobel Peace Prize winner

Elie was 15 when he was captured by the Nazis and sent away to concentration camp in Poland

He is most famous for his book, Night, which describes his experiences in the holocaust

Born in Frankfurt am Main in 1929

On her 13th birthday she was gifted a diary

She wrote stories about the time, and her feelings inside the diary

Anne was inspired to rewrite her individual diaries into one running story, titled Het Achterhuis

In 1942

Naomi Parker was working in a machine shop at the Naval Air Station in Alameda, California

Thought to be the inspiration for the World War II-era poster girl “Rosie the Riveter”

On January 20, 2018

Naomi Parker Fraley died at the age of 96

September 3, 1939 to May 8, 1945

World War II's longest continuous campaign

World War II's longest continuous campaign

Over five years, thousands of ships engage in 100-plus battles in the Atlantic Ocean

Roughly 100,000 lives lost

In 1940

The German Army swept through the country

By late May, Allied troops found themselves surrounded in Dunkirk

despite attacks from the Luftwaffe, German infantry never closed in for a final attack.

In early 1942

Dr. Lytle S. Adams

Adams’s proposal was to attach incendiary devices to bats and drop the winged weapons from airplanes

This was accepted and was handed over to the Army Chemical Warfare Service

1933–1945

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party

It ended in May 1945

Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II

The Holocaust is also sometimes referred to as “the Shoah,” the Hebrew word for “catastrophe"

December 7, 1941

The FBI rounded-up 1,291 Japanese American community and religious leaders

They arrested them without evidence

The arrestees were transferred to prison camps in Montana

In a panic, some politicians called for their mass incarceration

one percent of the Japanese population in Hawaii were sent to prison camps on the U.S. mainland

Or 1,500 people

During WW2

Living conditions were miserable

Germans established at least 1,143 ghettos in the occupied eastern territories

Three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos, and destruction ghettos

In Warsaw, more than 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles

The summer of 1936

Hitler had completed a four-year plan to boost the German military and the domestic economy to be ready for war by 1940

He put Hermann Göring in charge

“German Fat Plan”

The idea was to find substitutes for these oil- and fat-based products in case imported sources were cut off

whale oil was one of the main ingredients for margarine, and Germans ate a lot of margarine

May 1944

The pilots received advanced training

A simulation of aerial combat and bombing exercises over Lake Huron

Army transferred all remaining Tuskegee fighter pilots from Michigan to South Carolina

The vacated bases at Selfridge and Oscoda were populated with Free French fighter pilots training in America while their homeland was occupied by Nazi Germany.

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1936

Hitler had completed a four-year plan to boost the German military and the domestic economy

He put Hermann Göring in charge

“German Fat Plan”

The idea was to find substitutes for these oil- and fat-based products in case imported sources were cut off