1945

walk miles and miles,if the Jews slowed down or couldn’t keep up then they would get shot. The largest Death March took place in the winter of 1944-1945. Once the Jews got to the trains they were sent off to concentration camps.The Nazis killed lots of Jews before and after the Death Marches. 7,000 Jews, 6,000 of them were women. On January 18, 1945, the SS guard began evacuating Auschwitz and its satellite camps. The prisoners were forced to walk to Wodzislaw. Who ever fell behind or couldn’t…

Japan of 1945 In 1945 a tragic event occurred, a bombing had taken place in Japan of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The event started on August 6th, 1945 during world war two. Another A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki killing an estimation of 40,000 people, three days later. It was very hard living with these conditions, never knowing if in the middle of the night if there was going to be another bombing coming in and destroy everything that had made the other two bombs or just take everything they had…

sustaining casualties. Japanese were able to defend themselves until 1945 on the Chinese mainland. In 1944 American forces liberated the Philippines and began to fire bomb Japanese cities. Britain was able to recapture Burma. In 1945 American suffered major losses in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa an island of strategic importance. Despite casualties and Kamikaze attacks America took over Okinawa in the mid of June in 1945. August 6th 1945 United states air force dropped the first Atomic…

built from 1780 to 1790. The camp was liberated in March 8 1945. It was named by Emperor Joseph II, after his mother. During World War II it served as a concentration camp. Terezín was a Gestapo prison from 1941 to 1945. Terezín concentration camp is more than 65 years old. Today terezín is located in Czech Republic. Before World War II the population was 5,000 Jews .At the height of the war Terezín held 55,000 Jews. In 1945 15,891 people died in Terezín, almost half of the camp's…

In 1945, Allied triumph was inevitable. Hitler momentarily pushed the Allies back into France with a surprise counterattack that made a giant bulge in the Allied lines. The Battle of the Bulge was the single largest battle ever fought by the U.S. Army and inflicted 70,000 American casualties. However, the German assault failed. By March, American troops had made its way into Germany. Hitler committed suicide, then Soviet troops took Berlin and on May 8 the war against Germany came to its…

In the diary of Anne Frank , the characters in the book Anne Frank is about a young girl named Anne Frank . Born June 12, 1929, Frankfurt, Germany Died , 1945, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp Germany . Born to Otto Frank and Edith Frank , her sister name was Margot Frank . Her family was Jewish and had to go into hiding under Adolf Hitler rule in January , 30 1933. The Franks hid with the Van Daan’s In the secret Annex , in Mr. Frank's warehouse in Amsterdam . It would taken so much courage ,…

Animal Farm by George Orwell, is a satirical novella analysing the Russian political climate of 1945. With England’s increasing contact with the Soviet Union, during the rise of Joseph Stalin and brewing of the Cold War, Orwell sought to vent his frustrations through his art. Orwell, being a prescient writer (Kennedy 2017), was able to contextualise the events of, and immortalise, the Russian Revolution, whilst alluding to the result of the Communist agenda that took power during his lifetime.…

there were many great leaders and famous people like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, President Truman, who participated in many events and meetings. These significant events led up to the day that the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945 (Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, n.d.). Einstein was the person that informed President Roosevelt in 1939 that he felt that the Germans were really close to producing an atomic bomb. A few years later in 1942 “the Manhattan Project” began…

to the allies. Everyone knows World War 2, and about how tragic it was. They also remember who fought alongside Germany. Germany surrendered on May 7th, 1945, which was when Hitler committed suicide. That left other Nazis to deal with the surrender. When they saw that they were surrounded, the germans surrendered to the allies. On May 7th, 1945, According to “Germany Surrenders unconditionally….” the Soviets approached the German capital of Berlin from the east side. The western allies,…

Project Proposal: Political Cartoons The topic that I chose for my final project is political cartoons created during the time period of 1939 through 1945, and mostly focusing on the major event that occur during this time frame which is World War II. The main focus of my project will be on how the political cartoons created during 1939 through 1945 have contributed to our nation building as well as how educators use these political cartoons to help teach students about the events of World War…