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TIMELINE ACTIVITY
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Print out these slides and shuffle them before
having your students create a timeline with them.
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• President Roosevelt signs the Declaration of War
  against Germany.

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That evening, around 7 o'clock, Truman was sworn
in as President. He later remarked to reporters,
"Boys, if you ever pray, pray for me now. I don't
know if you fellows ever had a load of hay fall
on you, but when they told me yesterday what had
happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all
the planets had fallen on me."
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Harry Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on two
cities in Japan. Part of the rationale for this
decision was that they wanted to avoid the loss
of life that would accompany an invasion of the
Japanese mainland. Hiroshima was the first target
on August 6th and then Nagasaki was hit on August
9th. The two bombs killed approximately 100,000
Japanese instantly.
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Wartime restrictions were imposed on civil
liberties. A real black mark on the American home
front was the Executive Order No. 9066 signed by
Roosevelt. This ordered those of
Japanese-American descent to be removed to
"Relocation Camps." This law eventually forced
close to 120,000 Japanese-Americans in the
western part of the United States to leave their
homes and move to one of ten 'relocation' centers
or to other facilities across the nation. Most of
those relocated were American citizens by birth.
They were forced to sell their homes, most for
next to nothing, and take only what they could
carry.
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The Japanese unconditionally surrendered. This
was known as V-J Day (Victory over Japan day)