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rly in 1939 it was discovered that German Scientists had found out how to split uranium. Splitting a uranium atom can be very dangerous, the reaction that occurs is tremendous. There was a fear throughout the entire world that they would be able to create a bomb that can cause mass destruction. Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermie both lived in Germany but fled, they decided to inform the president of the power they have. In 1941 the president agreed to build an atomic bomb, it got its code name…

many females and became the camp with the most females. The first commander was SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer Arthur Rod. The last commander was SS – Sturmbannfuhrer Johannes Hassebroek. In May 1941 it became a concentration camp and closed down February 1945. Gross Rosen Concentration Camp was a camp with mostly women prisoners. Out of 76,728 prisoners, nearly 26,000 of them were woman. Most of the woman were Jewish. Small groups of Jews arrived from the Tarnow prison, in the Radom…

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators (“Introduction to Holocaust”). Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps (“The Holocaust”). To facilitate the "Final Solution" (the genocide or mass destruction of the Jews), the Nazis established killing centers in Poland, the country with the largest Jewish population (“Holocaust…

afterward, a sign stood in Orotona in Italy that read, “A West Canadian Town.” The sign was left by proud Canadian soldiers. 2. By June of 1944, the Allies had succeeded in capturing Rome. Canadian forces continued to fight in Italy until February of 1945. C. D-Day and the Normandy Invasion 1. More than thirty thousand Canadian troops were involved in D-Day, the day scheduled for the Allied invasion of Europe. 2. American forces were to attack at the western end of Normandy Beach, and British…

As the second World War was drawing to a close in the Pacific theater, the United States ultimately decided to use its new weapon that they have been developing in the top-secret Manhattan Project, the atomic bomb, on Japan on August 6th, 1945. The United States, including Truman and top military officials such as Secretary of War Stimson, opted to use the weapon for a variety of reasons including drawing the war to a quick end. While the U.S. ultimately used nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and…

which was originally in Manhattan, New York. By the summer of 1945, they were ready test the first bomb. On July 16, 1945, scientists of the Manhattan Project readied themselves to watch the detonation of the world's first atomic bomb. President Harry S. Truman was warned by his advisers that any attempt to invade Japan would result in many deaths so he ordered that the atomic bomb be used to bring the war to an end. On August 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped the bomb over the…

to house invasion of the Japanese mainland would produce thousands more American and Allied casualties” In 1945, late July, it was declared that the Japanese must surrender. President Truman, United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and the Chairman of the Chinese National Government Chiang Kai-shek issued a declaration for peace, the Potsdam Declaration, on the 26th of July 1945 (“Hiroshima”), The United States faced the realization that Japan would not come to a peace agreement.…

giving it a higher power to its name and country saving its reputation. During the study of the exhibit, I found many illustrations documents. For example, (1996) by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was one of the most powerful and infamous dictators of the 20th century. As well as German politician of the Nazi…

man” who thought Mr. Fitweiler was a famous football coach. Mrs. Barrows had lead Mr. Fitweiler to the sofa working on him with her “monstrous magic” and Mr. Fitweiler simply concluded that Mrs. Barrows would be a remarkable addition to F&S (Thurber,1945, para. 5). Mr Fitweiler hired Mrs Barrows a week later as his special advisor. Mrs. Barrows immediately begin to work on tearing up the office or “pea patch” Setting Thurber’s story is born in the office of F&S, a company that Mr.…

points on the Pacific front was when America dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 killing over 140,000 people. The second atomic bomb dropped on August 9th, 1945 on Nagasaki killed over 80,000 people. Fighting in the Pacific would continue until September 2, 1945 when the Empire of Japan surrendered to the United States ending Japans involvement in World War II (History…