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· 01/25/1940 o Germans choose the town of Auschwitz as the site of a concentration camp. · 2/12/1940 o The deportation of German Jews to concentration camps. · 11/15/1940 o The Warsaw Ghetto which contains over 400,000 Jews is sealed off. · 3/1/1941 o Himmler makes his first visit to Auschwitz. He orders a massive expansion which includes a new compound that will be able to hold 100,000 prisoners. · 5/14/1941 o 3,600 Jews arrested in Paris. · 9/3/1941 o Gas chambers in Auschwitz are used for the first time. · 1/20/1942 o The formal adoption of the Final Solution is official. This meant that all Jews that were in Europe were to be transported to the east. The people that were able to work would work until they died, while the people that were not able were killed. · 7/2/1942 o The New York Times reports that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed by the Nazis. · 7/17/1942 o Himmler visits Auschwitz for two days and he inspects all of the expansion construction and then observes the extermination process from start to finish. After this visit he promotes Kommandant H öss. · 1/18/1943 o First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. · 4/20/1943 o The Jewish uprising in Warsaw triggers a massive German response and initiates a month long massacre of the 60,000 Jews in the ghetto. · 11/3/1943 o Nazis carry out Operation Harvest Festival in occupied Poland, killing 42,000 Jews. · 1/24/1944 o In response to political pressure to help Jews under Nazi control, Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board. · 6/12/1944 o The kidnapping of 40,000 Polish children from the ages of ten to fourteen for slave labor in Germany. This act was called “Hay Action” and was ordered by Rosenberg. · 11/25/1944 o Himmler orders the destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz. · 1/27/1945 o Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz but by this time an estimated 2,000,000 people including 1,500,000 Jews have been murdered there. · 11/20/1945 o The Nuremburg Trials begin. · 12/14/1945 o SS personnel are hanged after being convicted of the killings in the concentration camps.

Pearl Harbor: This was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor. This attack was carried out on the morning of December 7, 1941. It resulted in the United States entry into World War II. The reason for the attack was to prevent the Americans ability to react to the war that the Japanese were planning in Southeast Asia against Britain, the Netherlands and the Americans in the Philippines. The Japanese attack consisted of two aerial attacks consisting of 353 aircraft. The attack sank four American Navy battleships. But the Americans were lucky as two of their aircraft carriers were out at sea so they avoided damage all together.

The end result of the attack on Pearl Harbor was the Americans entering the war. This had a huge outcome on the war as the Americans were very influential and drastically changed the outcome of the war. If the Americans hadn’t gotten involved in the war the German’s could have ruled for a much longer time in Europe and could have possibly taken out the entire Jewish race in Europe. Also the attack on Pearl Harbor really brought America together as the country had to come together to support each other through the tough time. In the end Pearl Harbor had a major impact on the outcome of the war.



[] This primary document shows the perspective of someone that experienced the attacks on Pearl Harbor first hand. This document really gives you the first hand perspective of how things happened and what actually went on.

D-Day: D-Day was the Allied invasion of Normandy, France. The landings started on Tuesday, June 6th 1944 at 6:30 AM. The assault consisted of two phases, an air assault landing of 24,000 American, British, Canadian and French troops and a large attack on the coast of France. The operation was the largest amphibious invasion of all time, with over 175,000 troops and Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships. The reason for the attack was for the Allied forces to fight the Germans. D-Day was a major turning point in the war because once they gained the beach it gave them a huge advantage and a boost in moral. This landing really marked the decline of the German power as they had major casualties and were pushed back off the coast. Also this event causes the Allies to realize the end of the war is near and gives them extra motivation to fight.

[] This primary document really shows you how the landing actually took place. It gives you a sense of what it was really like to be there and also gives you a really good idea about what they were trying to accomplish. This document changed my outlook on how the landing actually took place.

Hiroshima: Hiroshima is the largest city in the Chugoku region of western Honshu and is the largest island of Japan. It was the first city to get destroyed by a nuclear bomb when the Americans dropped it on them at 8:15am on August 6, 1945. The Americans chose Hiroshima because the Second Army and Chugoku Regional Army were headquartered there. The city also had large amounts of military supplies, and was a key center for shipping, thus making it an ideal place to drop the Atomic bomb. The bomb “Little Boy” was dropped by an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay. This killed an estimated 90,000 to 140,000 by the end of year. This event was a major turning point in the war because it completely destroyed the city making it impossible for them to fight back. The bombing of this city marked the end of the war as the city of Hiroshima was for the most part lifeless. Because the Japanese army had so many men stationed there and so many war supplies the bombing of it caused their army to have nothing to go back to. [] This Primary document is from the perspective of President Harry S. Truman. This primary document really shows how the President felt at that time about dropping the atomic bomb. This document showed me something that I never knew before and that is that Harry S. Truman informed the people of Japan to evacuate their cities. I found this primary document very useful in the sense that it opened my eyes up to something I didn’t know.

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