World War II
World War II was a world wide war that involved a vast majority of countries around the world, it was fought on every ocean and the mediterranean sea, Europe, southeast Asia, China, Middle East, and Northern Africa, this war lasted from September 1, 1935 to September 2, 1945, and with a total of 50 million to 85 million fatalities in battle and 11 million fatalities in the holocaust making World War II the deadliest war in all of history. The war started on September 1, 1939 when the Nazi army invaded Poland which caused a declaration of war from France and the United Kingdom; these two countries came together to form the Allies which would later include The United States and Russia. After forming what they called the Axis alliance
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The Japanese continued to push the Chinese forces back capturing Nanking in December 1937, after the capture of Nanking hundreds of thousands of innocent people were brutally murdered by the Japanese. The battle of the bulge which lasted from December 16, 1944 to January 25, 1945, is the largest and deadliest battle for U.S troops to date, with more than 80,000 American casualties all together there 19,246 killed, 62,489 wounded, and 26,612 that were either captured by opposing forces or went missing. It was a surprise attack that completely blind sighted the allied forces, it resulted in the destruction of many properties, but also resulted in a victory for the Allies this was a major turning point in the war. …show more content…
More than 3,600 tanks were involved in this battle. German u-boats sunk 2,000 allied ships at cost of 781 U-boats destroyed. 1,4
On January 31, 1945 private Eddie Slovik was shot for desertion, he was the first American executed for the crime since the civil war. Between 1939 and 1945, the allies dropped 3.4 million tons of bombs, dropping them throughout parts of Europe and Japan. From 1940-1945, the U.S defense budget increased from and $1.9 billion to $59.8 billion.1,4
The most gruesome and terrifying part of the war was the Holocaust; the Holocaust was the mass genocide of millions of innocent Jewish people. With approximately 42,500 concentration camps located all throughout Germany and other parts of Europe, it was in these camps where victims were abused, starved, used for slave labor, and mass murdered. Jehovah’s witnesses and gypsies were also persecuted and murdered in German concentration camps. It is estimated that 1.5 million children died during the Holocaust in these camps. Despite the risk of death, thousands of people tried to helped save the Jews, by hiding them inside their homes, shipping them to safe locations, and smuggling them out of camps, some would also push food through the fences of the camps in an attempt to feed the starving people inside. Many Jews were subject to gruesome medical experiments. Dr. Josef Mengele used
Before the invasions started, six-thousand vessels and eleven-thousand planes were heading to Normandy. When the invasions began, the invaders used planes and warships to distract the Germans. That´s when the planes dropped the troops behind the defenses to block roads so the Germans couldn't call for help. The troops kept fighting on all the beaches and eventually held victory on each of the beaches. Over a hundred fifty-thousand troops survived the attacks and there were about four-thousand to nine-thousand deaths for German soldiers. As previously stated, the hardest part of the invasion was taking control of Omaha beach. According to the CBBC Newsround, “The heaviest fighting was on Omaha beach. Overall the allies suffered about 10,000 casualties (dead or wounded) on D-Day itself”(CBBC 4). Additionally, the beaches had their fair share of fighting, but none of them compared to the fighting on Omaha beach. Many of the troops were outsmarted by the Germans on Omaha which led to them losing ten-thousand people. To conclude, many of the events on D-day were very crucial and impactful on the
The Battle of the bulge took place on December sixteenth 1944. More than a million men participated in this battle including some 600,000 Germans, 500,000 Americans, and 55,000 British which made it
The Second World War began in September of 1939 and was between the Allies and the Axis. It began with Germany’s unprovoked attack and conquest of Poland, and involved Britain and France from the beginning. Its origins lay in German resentment at the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the economic crisis of 1929-30, which favored the rise to power of Fascist dictators, the failure of the League of Nations to gain international acceptance for disarmament, and the policy of imperialism adopted by Germany, Italy and Japan as a means of acquiring raw materials and markets. As a part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany had to accept full responsibility for the First World War, which then led up to the outbreak of the Second. The
As for the World War II, it began in 1939 till 1945. This war went on for 6 years. The war began in Europe after the attack in Poland, Germany. World War II started because Hitler began to take over Europe and Germany. Adolf Hitler and his partnership with Italy and Japan opposed the Soviet Union. The conflict during World War I was between the Axis powers and the Allied powers. The war ended after Japan had finally surrendered in 1945. Over 60 million people
The Nazi Germany was able to invade Poland as their first step in expansionism into an empire in 1939, officially beginning the Second World War. They followed that up with an attack in France and other countries, and the beginning of their physical persecution on the chosen groups. Eventually Japan, the Soviet Union, the United States, and many other countries became involved. World War II lasted almost six years, and because of this war more than 50 million civilians and soldiers lost their lives, whether they were fighting for their country, being persecuted, or trying to live their lives
The shores were heavily “fortified” according to historians.Over 425,000 German and Allied troops were killed, wounded or went missing during the invasion. That includes over 209,000 killed from the Allied troops, with almost 37,000 deaths in the ground forces and about 16,714 people in the Air Force were killed.
World War 2 was a notorious war fought between the Axis and Allied nations, during the period of 1939 to 1945. The Axis nations mainly included Germany, Japan and Italy, while the Allied nations were led by the United States of America (USA), the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and Britain (Source D). The war was kindled after a Nazi German invasion of Poland in 1939, which resulted in Britain and France declaring war on Germany. As Germany was determined to carry on their invasions, their allies (the Axis nations) and Britain’s allies (the Allied nations) and colonies were dragged into the war, causing it to become a major world war.
After a month of pure hell for the Allied Forces, victory would finally prevail. The total casualty rate of The Battle of The Bulge for the Allied Forces was 90,000 troops. The Germans suffered 100,000 casualties. The main cause of such high numbers is due to the initial force of numbers. The Allied troops started with only 80,000 compared to the Germans 200,000(Battle of The Bulge, http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-bulge).
It was said that World War I would be the war to end all wars; unfortunately U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was wrong. In 1939 Germany invaded Poland and the global conflict, World War II, began. Fought from 1939 to 1945, World War II consisted of the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers. The Axis Powers were led by Germany, Japan, and Italy. The Allied Powers were led by the United States, Britain, France, and several other countries. In total, over sixty million people were killed, making World War II the deadliest conflict in modern history. The intervention of the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 brought the end of the war 4 years later.
Hitler’s Watch on the Rheine offensive depended on his three armies, the Fifth Panzer Army in the north, the Sixth Panzer Army in the center and the 7th Army in the south. The German War Machine included 400,000 troops, 1,400 tanks, 2,600 artillery pieces and 1,000 aircraft in comparison to the thin American line consisting of four American Infantry Divisions and one Armored Division totally 83,000 men and 400 tanks (Farrell 37). Despite an overwhelming Wehrmacht (German Army) and their extensive knowledge of terrain and an elaborate plan to infiltrate Allied lines through the use of espionage,
World War II took place from September 1, 1939, to September 2, 1945. It was a conflict that included almost every part of the world during the years. The Axis powers included Germany, Italy, and Japan and the Allies consisted of France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and to some degree China. The allies consisted of Joseph Stalin, Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek, and Charles de Gaulle. On the other hand, the axis consisted of Adolf Hitler, Hirohito, and Mussolini. However, it brought advances in technology, the civil rights movement in the United States, and the modern women’s rights movement, and programs for exploring outer space.
World War II was a fight between the Ally and Axis powers. On the Allys side was Great Britain, America, and France. On the Axis side was Germany, Italy, and Japan. In 1940, Hitler and his nazi army invaded Poland against the warnings of Great Britain, thus forcing Britain to declare war and start World War II . America stayed neutral until 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. With the outbreak of
The war started in September of 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and defeated the polish army within weeks of the invasion. Two days after the attack France and Great Britain declared war on Germany and the Second World War had started. Throughout the following six years, the clashes between the Axis powers and the Allied forces would take more lives and wreck more land and property around the globe than any past war.
Involving more than thirty nations around the world, World War II was the most widespread war in history. Beginning with the German blitzkrieg of Poland in 1939, between 1939 and 1945, the world was embroiled in a total war between the Allied Powers and the Axis Powers in which an estimated number of between 45 and 70 million people were killed. The Allied Powers was an alliance consisting of nations such as but not limited to Great Britain (as well its colonies and dominions such as Canada, Australia, and India), France, USSR, China (to a lesser extent), and later the United States following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. On the other hand, the Axis Powers included nations such as Germany, Japan, and Italy . The
World War II is the name commonly given to the global conflict of 1939-1945. It is said to be the greatest and most destructive war in world history. The World War II military operations were conducted primarily in Europe but also in Asia, Africa, and the far islands of the Pacific as well. More than 17 million members of the armed forces perished during the conflict. It caused strain on the economic capabilities of the major nations and left many countries on the edge of collapse.