On August 6 1945, a US plane named the Enola Gay flew over Hiroshima, a civilian city that had minimal military value and dropped the worlds first atomic bomb nicknamed little boy over Hiroshima, the initial blast instantly killed 80,000 people leaving Hiroshima a wasteland for months. This was a significant event of WW2 as it enlightened the world on why nuclear weapons shouldn’t be used in warfare. The use of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 has long remained one of the most controversial…
them. The lives the women had at the concentration camps and before. Juana Bormann joined in 1939 to “earn money”. She was very abusive, she had a German Shepard that she would release onto the prisoners. The last she was posted was in March 1945. Herta Bothe served at the Stutthof camp near Danzig. She was a tall athletic woman. When the British troops had ordered her and other SS…
Benito Mussolini was an Italian dictator who was born on April 28, 1945. He is most known as the creator of the Fascist party in Italy. He was also known for making himself a dictator and holding power in Italy. Mussolini played a big part during World War II. When he was young, he tried to follow his father's political footsteps. He was a socialist until he was kicked out of the party for supporting world war I. On March 1919, he formed the Fascist party. The party was done to show…
In World War II, Germans killed millions of Jews, gypsies, Slavs, and others who were either mentally or physically disabled (Rice 11). This is how Hitler wanted to get rid of the people who are not pure blood (Rice 11). The German participated in many aspects of the Holocaust (The German). The Holocaust took place in most of Europe where the Nazis took over (Grant 28). In 1941, the Nazis invade the Soviet Union and killed 100,000 Jews, roma(gypsies), and Communist (Blhom 4). The German…
Hitler might o majority view that Adolf Hitler committed suicide In his Fuhrerbunker on April 30, 1945 most of these theories hold that Hitler and his wife survived and escaped the city of Berlin. this conspiracy theory was questioned, but according to the New york times dated 26th April 1945, “hitler imitator reported ready to die in his place. Rumors said that Hitler escaped to Argentina with news of sightedness of German U boats off the Argentine coast. adolf Hitler committed…
therapy starting in 1945. This therapy was to help de-Nazi the young Germans.to be healthy and physically strong. Hitler Youth taught the men become faithful to the Nazi party. In 1938, the group grew to 8.7 million members. By 1939, Hitler Youth Program had 765,000 young males serving in leadership roles.When a member of the Hitler Youth became 18 years old, they were required to join the German army immediately. The Hitler Youth were the major part of the German Army in 1945, during the…
thousands of soldiers. On May 8, 1945, The Allies accepted the surrender of Nazi Germany. Hitler had committed suicide a week earlier. Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a massive stroke on April 12, 1945, leaving Harry S. Truman as president. He made the decision to drop two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The smaller one, nicknamed the “Little Boy” was dropped on August 6, 1945 on Hiroshima. The bigger one, the “Fat Man”, was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. More than 200,000…
Additionally, when Vargas came to power in 1930, recently appointed Minister of Education and Public Health “Campos declared the recent revolution to be an unprecedented opportunity to change fundamentally Brazilian society through the elevation of national health and educational standards,” which led to the implementation of more drastic eugenic techniques in Brazil (Williams 53). Furthermore, when Capanema was replaced Campos as minister “the [first Vargas] regime fully integrated cultural…
investigation will answer the question “To what extent did the role of German women living under control of the Third Reich change from 1933-1945?” This analysis is significant as it assesses an overlooked aspect of The Third Reich that is integral in gaining a holistic understanding of the empire. The scope of the investigation will evaluate German women from 1933 to 1945. To find a wide range of sources for the investigation I consulted online data bases and the library. After gathering…
involved, many people died. Thus, making World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. Germany had just been invaded by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. War in Europe had just concluded and Nazi Germany signed its surrender on May 8, 1945. Japan, facing the same fate as…