In today’s video, we learned about the concentration camps where the Nazis had kept Jews, prisoner of war, and other people Hitler thought were inferior. The Allies were able liberate(free) the people trapped in the camps when the war was nearing the end. The Soviet Army at the time were attacking the town of Berlin [...]
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Today’s video was about The Battle of the Bulge. Hitler had secretly planned a surprise attack on the Allied Forces. Hitler also ordered that German men from ages 16 to 60 were drafted and put in the war. On December 16, the Germans started the attack at 5:30 a.m. they were able to fight their [...]
Today we watched a video on the D-Day invasion. The actual invasion was well planned out. The airplanes would drop troops and later bombs while the warships would land at five different landing points. There were many causalities, but eventually we were able to get past the first wave and continued moving forward.
Today, we watched more of the battle in North Africa. The Allies and the Axis kept shooting back and forth with cannons and air strikes. There were many casualties on our side, but we didn’t give up. We kept pushing more and more forward toward Italy. Also, after many long weeks, the Allied forces won [...]
Today, we watched the video of the part of the war in North Africa. The U.S. and our allies fought to move forward and make their way through to Rome. The main objective of their plan was to secure and take over the oil reserves the enemy had. We eventually kept winning and moving forward [...]
Today, we saw a video of the battle of Guadalcanal. The U.S. Marines made a plan to capture a landing strip in construction for the Japanese. They called it “Operation Shoestring.” At Guadalcanal, they had quickly taken over the airstrip and completed it. They renamed it Henderson Field after a captain that died in battle [...]
Today, we saw the next part of the movie. It talked about how the Americans and Japanese fought against each other in the Philippines. Although they fought bravely, the U.S. surrendered in that battle. They were then captured and sent to a camp and the walk to the camp was known as the Bataan Death [...]
Today’s part of the video talked about Pearl Harbor. By bombing Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Japan ended up killing over 2,000 Americans. Millions of people heard on the radio and saw in theaters what happen. On December 8th, President Roosevelt declared war on Japan. Meanwhile, Japan had allies with Germany and Italy. German leader Adolf [...]
Yesterday, we watched part of a movie about World War II. It was kind of interesting. The part that we watched was about four different town and during the movie, they show some veterans and they also talked about what happened. I was surprised.
