1944

The greatest Canadian achievement during the Second World War were the numerous military contributions and liberation of many territories. One of the great military contributions was the significant role that Canada played in D-Day on June 6, 1944. 14,000 Canadian soldiers were part of this attack on Juno beach which was the beach assigned to the Canadian military. Two hours the assault started, the beach had been taken from the German army. Canada’s military had gained the most territory on…

Personal Response-I Survived The Nazi Invasion, 1944 I enjoyed the story because I like reading about the Holocaust. Learning more about all that happened is cool. Horrible things took place and I think it’s cool how the Nazis were killed after it was all done. Plot- The plot of the book was about a young boy named Max who was growing up with his sister, Zena, in Esties. The Nazis had arrested their Father and forced them to live in a Ghetto. The Nazis were taking over the town and putting…

killed by German authorities. Tuvia commanded the group while Asael became the deputy and Zus oversaw the reconnaissance. Their younger brother, Aharon was also a part of this group. The Bielski Partisans operated in Western Belorussia between 1942 and 1944. The brothers were very familiar with the German territory and customs which helped them avoid the German and Belorussian authorities. They encouraged Jews to escape ghettos and camps and to join them in the forest. Also, they would regularly…

The French Resistance played a key part in aiding the Allies to success in Western Europe, especially leading up to D-day in June 1944. The French Resistance went from 1940-1944. General Charles De Gualle was the leader of the French Resistance and he was intent to unite these different resistance groups under his leadership ("French Resistance"). Jean Moulin was a high-profile member of the Resistance in France during World War II. He is remembered today as an emblem of the Resistance, owing…

General Hideki Tojo was born in Tokyo, in the Kōjimachi district on December 30, 1884. He was the eldest son of a samurai descent. In 1899, Tojo entered a military school to follow his father’s footsteps of a Japanese military man. In 1909, he married a woman, Katsuko Ito. Together they had three sons and four daughters. Tojo graduated in 1915 with honors, then he went to Europe and studied there for three years. In 1922, when Tojo had returned, he became an instructor at a war college for…

Jane Haining was a matron at the Girl's Home of the Scottish Mission in Budapest who always put her kid's lives before hers. She was born in Dunscore, Dunfriesshire in Scotland. She spend twelve years of her life teaching and had grown to be loved and respected by her students and colleagues. Her mother died when she was only five so she grew up taking care of her sisters and learning to put her life behind others. In 1939, Nazis invaded Poland and Britain and declared war on Germany. Hungary…

Award in baseball. His courage and moral objection to segregation were precursors to the impact Robinson would have in major league baseball. During Jackie's time, baseball was segregated, so the African-Americans and whites played separate leagues. In 1944, Jackie began playing baseball professionally. Robinson began playing in the Negro Leagues, but he was soon chosen by Branch Rickey, president of Brooklyn Dodgers, to help integrate major league baseball. Robinson started off playing with…

Outline President Ronald Reagan's Speech about D-Day is a very powerful speech. The speech was about the US Army Rangers that landed on the beaches in normandy France on June 6th, 1944. The speech was given in front of the memorial of the 2nd and 5th Ranger battalions who gave their lives on that cliff. This speech that uses a rhetoric style of writing. As a rhetoric style of writing it uses the devices of Logos, Ethos, Pathos, Telos, and Kairos to give a great speech. The use of Logos is shown…

shows us that the US Supreme Court has made several big mistakes in the ways they handled several federal court rulings. In the year 1944, just briefly after the battles and war between the United States and Japan, the Supreme Court ruled a law that would be considered immoral, and racial profiling in the present time. The Korematsu v. United States court case of 1944 was a heavily criticized court ruling. The United States Supreme Court ruled that on several regions in several states across…

rather than a wider curriculum. For the first time the 1944 act made LEA’s make provision for special educational needs at primary and secondary level. Previously the education of special needs was treated separately to the education of able pupils. The less handicapped would be able to receive an education in ordinary school and those with more serious needs would still continue to receive an education in special schools. The 1944 Act went a long way to create a fair education for all…