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What Is The Cause Of Ww2

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WWII was a mess of violence, driven by raging hatred. It was started by a man with no respect for many races (Slavs, Gypsies, and Jews), which were “inferior” to the Aryan Race. He decided that he wanted to deal with it by exterminating all the races he saw as “life unworthy of life”. These horrible ideas led to a war, which was very hard for very many people.
World War II lasted 6 years, from September first 1939 to September second 1945. It started when Germany attempted to attack Poland, and France and the UK declared war on Nazi Germany. The “Axis Powers” were Germany, Japan, and Italy. By 1945, almost every country in the entire world had declared war on them. The main “Allied Powers” were France and the UK, but Russia was also a huge …show more content…

The main Allies leaders were Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union), Franklin D. Roosevelt (United States), Winston Churchill (United Kingdom), Charles de Gaulle (France), and Chiang Kai-Shek (China).
The Holocaust was the scariest part of World War II. It involved the murder of many people (over 11 million people). Nazi Germany had constructed about 42,500 concentration facilities throughout Europe. Many families were torn apart, and only lived in closed off areas, which were called ghettos. It involved very scary things that hurt many people. There was little food in ghettos. People often had to smuggle food so they could have enough to get by. No outside information was allowed inside. Many people were taken to concentration camps and death camps. Some people refused to go, which was called ghetto uplifting.
Suddenly, the Axis halted when Japan lost the Battle of Midway and German defeat on the Battle of Stalingrad. Allies invaded Italy, which ended with Italian surrender. Soviet Union invaded Germany and its allies. Japan was suffering in south central China and Burma. The Allies destroyed Japan’s navy and captured Western Pacific islands. The war in Europe ended with an invasion of Germany by the Western Allies and the Soviet Union. There was also the capture of Berlin by the Soviet Troops. There was a German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. After the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945, …show more content…

British, American, and Canadian forces landed along a 50 mile stretch of water near the coast of France. D-Day was one of the biggest amphibious assaults in time. The Allies created a deception campaign used to confuse Germany about where they would attack. These deceptions lead to Germany thinking that the Allies were going to attack between Britain and France, or possibly Norway.

Operation Olympic was a planned operation in Operation Downfall, in the pacific war against southern Japan (city of Kyushu) after Germany had surrendered. There were planned to be 42 aircraft carriers, 24 battleships, and 400 destroyers and destroyer escorts. None of these were completed due to Japan’s geography, which made it obvious to the Japanese military, and they switched their defense plans to defend the areas that were going to be attacked.
There are very unusual and unique things about the leaders in World War II. For instance, Franklin Roosevelt served three terms as president (twelve years). Adolf Hitler was Jewish and promoted many countries to take in Jewish refugees. Joseph Stalin changed his last name to Stalin, which means “Man of Steel”. In order to make the Soviet Union military stronger, Stalin experimented with half-human, half-chimpanzee hybrids, which were thought to be much stronger than humans, less complaining than a human would give with pain, and no thought of free time

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