D-Day In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, Americans received word that three years of concerted war efforts had finally culminated in D-day-military jargon for the undisclosed time of a planned British, American, and Canadian action. During the night, over 5,300 ships and 11,000 planes crossed the English Channel and landed on the beaches of Normandy. The goal of every soldier and civilian involved in that effort was to drive the German military back to Berlin by opening a Western front in Europe. Now this event really intrigues me because D-Day was a big event of WWII, when American soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy to push Germany back to Berlin. Pearl Harbor On December 7, 1941, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl HarborExternal, Hawaii Territory, killing more than 2,300 Americans. The U.S.S. Arizona was completely destroyed and the U.S.S. Oklahoma capsized. A total of twelve ships sank or were beached in the attack and nine additional vessels were damaged. More than 160 aircraft were destroyed and more than 150 others were damaged. This event to me was a really interesting one because, This attack on Pearl Harbor was the reason the U.S. even joined WWII in the first place. Which ended up causing the U.S. to declare war on Japan, shortly after, Japan's allies (Germany, and Italy) declared war on the U.S. The Bombing on Hiroshima and Nagasaki On the 6th and 9th of August, 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict. Japan surrendered to the Allies on 15 August, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet Union's declaration of war against Japan and invasion of Japanese-occupied Manchuria. The Japanese government signed the instrument of surrender on 2 September, effectively ending the war. I do believe that this event was a way over-the-top way to make Japan surrender and exit of WWII. It was very violent, too violent, but it was revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor.
