WWII

=WWII by= =Thomas Weaver=

In this wiki you will learn about **WW2** and 5 highlights of WW2 which are **Pearl Harbor**, **D-Day**, **The Holocaust**, **Stalingrad** and **Atomic Bombs.**

=Pearl Harbor= The attack on Pearl Harbor which happened on December 7, 1941 was what caused the U.S. to enter World War II. This attack from the Japanese killed many men and women from the U.S. navy; totaling to 2,402 people. Even more people were wounded; totaling to 1,282 people. That was not all that was lost though. One hundred and eighty-eight planes were shot down, and the Japanese sunk eleven ships. Some of those ships were the same type and some of them weren’t. As for the Japanese they only lost sixty-five men, but Some of those men were just wounded. They also only lost five small ships and twenty-nine planes. The attack was almost a total success for the Japanese. They main goals in the attack were to destroy the U.S. navy ,which they practically did. They also wanted to increase there navy, and the attack was buying them time. Then the last goal was to try and persuade the U.S. to not do any more fighting. They completed all of there objective except stopping the U.S. from fighting. Actually they encouraged us to start fighting more. [] []

=**D-Day**= D-day or Normadys Landing as some people call it happened on June 6, 1944. The reason D-Day happened was to free the French captives. D-Day was a really big invasion that happened on Normandy’s beach. There were 175,000 troops along with 195,700 navy members. About 5100 Americans died.They had to land by either land or air. Then when the troops landed on shore they had to move up the beach with out being killed. The invasion could only be done on a full moon and there had to be a spring tide. This was so that we could see and so that the ships would not hit any trap like objects that the Germans had put out. This made it very hard to plan a good night to do the invasion, but an invasion date was set and the invasion was completed.

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=The Holocaust= The holocaust was a mass extermination of Jews. During the holocaust about 6 million Jews were killed. Most people think the Nazis only killed Jews, but they killed a lot more people than just Jews. In total the Nazis killed somewhere between 11 and 17 million people in all. Most people were killed in concentration camps. In these concentration camps. In the camps they would be killed by gas. The main or most well known concentration camp was Auschwitz. Another way that Jews would be killed was called Einsatzgruppen; which mean mobile killing unit. Einsatzgruppen was when Nazis traveled around and found a lot of Jews. When they got a lot of Jews then they would usually make them dig a huge whole which would be there grave. Then they would have them stand at the edge of the whole; then they would shoot them so they would fall into the whole. Using this method Nazis killed 300,000 people. [] [|holocaulst video]

=Stalingrad= The battle over Stalingrad was the largest and had more deaths than any other war. There were about 2 million death in all. This battle lasted over 100 days. It was fought between July 17, 1942 and February 2, 1943. The city Stalingrad was important because it was close to the very important trading river known as the Volga River. Hitler wanted this city so he would be able to get supplies. This city also had oil. Hitler wanted to cut off Stalin’s usage of the oil. At the end of the battle 91,000 prisoners were captured. In the end the Russians came out on top. [] This medal was give to 759.560 Russian soilders who helped defend Stailingrad. []

=**Atomic Bombs**=

The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were what ended WWII. On August 6 1945 a nuclear bomb known as “Little Bfalseoy” was dropped on the town of Hiroshima. This bomb killed 140,000 people. Then a few days later on August 9 1945 the bomb known as “Fat Man” was dropped on the town of Nagasaki. This bomb killed 80,000 people. “Fat Man” was a larger bomb but “Little Boy” killed more people. Out of all the people that died most of them did not die from the explosion; they died from being exposed to radioactive chemicals. If you were approximately less than a mile away from the bombs landing point then you would have been completely vaporized. These bombs made huge mushroom clouds that could have been seen far great distances away. “Little Boy” was dropped on Hiroshima by a plane called the Enola Gay. These two bombs that were dropped on these city may look big to you., but compared to the nuclear weapons we have today they are nothing.The bombs that we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the only time nuclear weapons have been used in a war. [] Fat Man Little Boy []

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=**Works Cited**=

“Atomic Bomb Chart” December 10, 2009 __Google__ []

"Atomic Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki" December 10, 2009 __Wikipediea: The Free Encyclopedia__ []

"Attack On Pearl Harbor" December 10, 2009 __Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia__ []

"Battle Of Stalingrad" December 10, 2009 __Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia__ []

"D-Day" December 10, 2009 __Google__ []

"Holocaust Slideshow" December 10, 2009 __Youtube__ []

"Normady Landing" December 10, 2009 __Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia__ []

"The Holocaust" December 10, 2009 __Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia__ []