Bataan Death March

Examples of Bataan Death March in the following topics:

• Hispanics in WWII

  • On March 18, 1945, the regiment was sent to the District of Mannheim and assigned to military occupation duties after the end of the war.
  • General Douglas MacArthur moved his forces, which included the 200th and 515th, to the Bataan Peninsula, where they fought alongside Filipinos in a three-month stand against the invading forces.
  • These Hispanic and non-Hispanic soldiers endured the 12-day, 85-mile (137 km) Bataan Death March from Bataan to the Japanese prison camps, where they were force-marched in scorching heat through the Philippine jungle.

• Roosevelt's Fourth Term

  • When Roosevelt returned to the United States, he addressed Congress on March 1 about the Yalta Conference, and many were shocked to see how old, thin and frail he looked.
  • In March 1945, he sent strongly worded messages to Stalin accusing him of breaking his Yalta commitments over Poland, Germany, prisoners of war and other issues.
  • Roosevelt's death was met with shock and grief across the United States and and around the world.
  • Less than a month after his death, on May 8, the war in Europe ended.
  • Examine the final months of Roosevelt's fourth term before his death in 1945.

• The Role of Religion in the Civil Rights Movement

  • Although the march originated in earlier ideas and efforts of secular black leaders A.
  • It is estimated that between 200,000 and 300,000 participated in the march.
  • In response, on March 7 close to 600 protesters attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery to present their grievances to Governor Wallace.
  • It began on March 21 and arrived in Montgomery on the 24th.
  • Shortly after Martin Luther King's death, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference used this poster—issued in an edition of one hundred—for a fundraising drive.

• Policy in the Middle East

  • CIA head Leon Panetta reported this intelligence to President Obama in March 2011.
  • Al-Qaeda confirmed the death on May 6 with posts made on militant websites, vowing to avenge the killing.
  • Also controversial was the decision not to release any photographic or DNA evidence of bin Laden's death to the public.
  • Osama bin Laden being interviewed by Hamid Mir, circa March 1997 – May 1998.
  • Analyze Obama's decisions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the significance of Osama bin Laden's death

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • King led the SCLC until his death.
  • Black Americans in Birmingham, organizing with the SCLC, occupied public spaces with marches and sit-ins, openly violating unjust laws.  
  • In the following years leading up to his death, he expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War—alienating many of his liberal allies, particularly with a 1967 speech entitled "Beyond Vietnam."
  • On March 29, 1968, King went to Memphis, Tennessee in support of the black sanitary public works employees, which had been on strike for 17 days in an effort to attain higher wages and ensure fairer treatment.
  • Martin Luther King giving his "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.

• The Holocaust

  • The first medical experimentation on humans and ethnic cleansing by Germans took place in the death camps of German South-West Africa during the Herero and Namaqua Genocide (1904-07).
  • Local commanders continued to kill Jews, and to shuttle them from camp to camp by forced "death marches" until the last weeks of the war.
  • Already sick after months or years of violence and starvation, prisoners were forced to march for tens of miles in the snow to train stations; then transported for days at a time without food or shelter in freight trains with open carriages; and forced to march again at the other end to the new camp.
  • Around 250,000 Jews died during these marches.
  • Some extermination and concentration camps were liberated by Allied powers in their final march through Europe on the way to defeat Nazi Germany.

• The Haymarket Affair

  • Eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy and seven were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the Haymarket Affair.
  • The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians, and the wounding of scores of others.
  • At about 10:30 pm, just as Fielden was finishing his speech, police arrived en masse, marching in formation towards the speakers' wagon, and ordered the rally to disperse.
  • Seven were sentenced to death and one to a term of 15 years in prison.
  • The death sentences of two of the defendants were commuted by Illinois governor Richard J.

• The Spanish Flu

  • It struck without any warning signs and then dissipated, with victims recovering within days and only a few deaths being reported.
  • On March 4, 1918, cook Albert Gitchell reported feeling sick at Fort Riley, Kansas.
  • By noon on March 11, 1918, over 100 soldiers were hospitalized and within days, 522 men at the camp had reported sick.
  • By March 11, 1918 the virus had spread to Queens, New York.

• Early Efforts in Urban Reform

  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of New York City and resulted in the fourth-highest loss of life from an industrial accident in U.S. history.
  • The fire caused the deaths of 146 garment workers, who died from the fire, smoke inhalation, or falling or jumping to their deaths.
  • The jury acquitted the two men of first- and second-degree manslaughter, but they were found liable of wrongful death during a subsequent 1913 civil suit in which plaintiffs were awarded compensation in the amount of $75 per deceased victim.

• The Obama Administration

  • On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the bill into law.
  • Immediately following the bill's passage, the House voted in favor of a reconciliation measure to make significant changes and corrections to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which was passed by both houses with two minor alterations on March 25, 2010, and signed into law on March 30, 2010.
  • On May 1, 2011, the U.S. initiated Operation Neptune's Spear, resulting in the death of bin Laden and the seizure of papers, computer drives, and disks from the compound.