1945

The "Shoah" Ethnic cleansing is the mass killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. From 1941-1945, the world witnessed one of the most atrocious acts of ethnic cleansing; this cleansing cultivated the infamous name of “The Holocaust”. Adolf Hitler led Germany into the organized extermination of Jews for these four years. In the United States, today, classrooms across the nation spread awareness of this despicable time period in human history. Though, shockingly,…

Once they produced these materials they were sent to Los Alamos, New Mexico. Under guidance of J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team they worked to turn these rare materials into a workable atomic bomb. On July 16, 1945 the Manhattan Project conducted the first test of an atomic device at their Trinity site in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The light from the bomb was seen all over the state of New Mexico and parts of Texas, Arizona, and Mexico, and created a blast brighter…

happened on April 30, 1945. With only but a few witnesses to be at the place of the event, and even fewer evidence about it to accommodate it, many theories about…

Is Hitler dead or alive? The world has been told for the last 70 years that on April 30 1945 committed suicide. But Hitler and his wife both faked their death to escape persecution. They was said to escape to Argentina via submarine in 1945 because Hitler knew he would lose the war. On the day Hitler escaped, two Nazi submarines were said to have landed on the Argentinian coast with Hitler on the first submarine, U-530. His wife was said to be on the second submarine. There was no report…

In Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg’s collection of letters to her children, On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940-46, she describes firsthand the atrocities of World War II and the effects it had on not only her city of Hamburg, but on Germany as a whole. She describes the events of the war from her perspective in letters to her children. These letters frequently entail a thorough description of Monckeberg’s opinions of the state of international politics at this time. Even…

Rome-Arno Campaign from January 25, 1944 to September 1944, Northern Apennines Campaign from April 1-4, 1945, and Po Valley Campaign from April 5, 1945 to May 5, 1945. In the European Theater of Operations some of their campaigns include the following: Rhineland Campaign-Vosges from October 10, 1944 to November 1944, and the Rhineland Campaign- Maritime Alps from November 21, 1944 to March 17, 1945. This team won numerous decorations. “These men were shy, self-effacing, extremely polite, and…

Devastation in Japan On August 6, 1945, a historical event occurred that will prosper in many Americans lives. Two years and a half of constructing the world 's most magnificent devastation human race has ever seen. A justified weapon used by President Truman’s decision on Japan to surrender and end WWII. Alternately, in the long run, the the bomb saved more lives that would have been lost in the war. The Americans made a smart decision when dropping the bomb, because it led to future…

The Manhattan Project was in the early 1939. The German have found out how to make the first Uranium atom bomb. The Uranium atom bomb can do a lot of damage to a place if it happen to go off. Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi felt the need that the president needed to know of the great danger that may be ahead of them. Fermi traveled all the way to Washington to tell the government officials his concern, not a lot of them shared the same uneasiness that he did. Einstein then had to send a letter…

– Two decades after the first world war, politically unstable Germany allowed the rise to power of a man that will forever be infamous. Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi Party) took control of Germany. They rearmed the nation and signed treaties with Italy and Japan, He was going along with his desire of world authority. Hitler and Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September of 1939 which force Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany. This was the start of WWII. Over 45…

dissuade the U.S.S.R from further expanding its territories rather than an action necessary to bring about the end of the war. In 1945 the Japanese government had already entered into negotiations with the U.S.A to agree to the terms of surrender. Japan was already out of resources and it was only a matter of time before they had to surrender or be taken over by invasion. In 1945 Japan was already defeated and it was desperation and honour that stood between Japan and unconditional surrender.…