D-Day, The Beginning Of The End

D-day, known to most as the day that Allied soldiers landed on Normandy, France. It was June 6, 1944, and it would also mean that it was the first step into ending World War II as Paris would be liberated from Germany sometime in August. This would eventually lead to the complete end of the war, finally defeating Nazi Germany, forcing Hitler into hiding, where he and his fiancée Eva Braun would commit suicide.

Hiroshima And Nagasaki Atomic Bombings

The United States and Japan had been at odds since the 1920’s, but as the years went by, their conflict would only get worse. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the continuous war that was raging on around the world, America would detonate two separate nuclear bombs over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and then Nagasaki on August 9, which was just 3 days after. The bombs proved fatal as they killed over 129,000 civilians, causing Emperor Hirohito’s surrender in WWII.