HST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Executive Order 9066, Elbe, Greater Germanic Reich
19 Mar 2017
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1980s comission: reveals that the decision to incarcerate had been based on race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership : in 1988: congress publicly apologized for the evacuation and paid reparations of. ,000 to each of the 60,000 remaining evacuees. In 1941: germany violates the nazi-soviet non-aggression pact and invades the soviet. In 1942: americans join the british fighting italian and german forces in north africa; Operation torch: 1943: allied forces invade italy, september 1943: italy surrenders. August 1944: paris is liberated: allies sweep across europe, aided by civilian uprisings against the nazis, allies bomb german military sites and cities, bombing of dresden, germany (1945) Soviet forces are sweeping westward toward gemany: april 25, 1945: american and soviet army troops met on the elbe river and the. Nazi empire finally collapsed: may 8th 1945: v-e day; german forces surrendered unconditionally and the war is over in europe.
