World War ll as One of the Most Deadliest and Destructive Wars

War waged violently for a long time across many fronts before the United States entered the World War II, beginning with Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in 1931. Adolf Hitler and his Nazism rose to power in Germany, while Benito Mussolini and his fascism gained control of Italy. Great Britain and France adopted appeasement policies, allowing Hitler to invade and take control without much resistance. This changed when Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France finally entered the war as the Allied Powers. In September of 1940, Germany, Italy, and Japan began the Axis Powers.

World War II happened during the time that women wanted more rights and wanted to be able to work. So when World War II happened, it created new job opportunities and women were able and willing to work. The war was fought between two alliances that was against each other, “the opposing alliances are now referred to as ‘The Axis’ and ‘The Allies’. The Axis group consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Allies group consisted of France, Britain, the U.S., the Soviet Union, and China. World War II was especially heinous because of the genocide of Jewish people perpetrated by the Nazis.” (Diffen LLC, n.d.d). World War II is known for being a brutal and long war that involved more than thirty countries. Also, some of the important things of

World War II began a long time before war was actually declared on the Axis Powers. In, 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National Social Party, or Nazi Party. After a series of escalating events, seventeen years later, Hitler was the leader of Germany and declared Anschluss (or union), which led to more invasions of neighboring European countries. Once Germany invaded Poland, in September of 1939, Britain, France, and Canada decided enough was enough and declared war (World War II, 2012).

The War started in 1939, but the road to war started way before that. In 1931 Japan wanted to expand their military power so they decided to invade Manchuria, China. Japan succeeded in their invasion and in the process massacred over 300,000 Chinese prisoners, both military and civilian. Japan was not the only country seeking power. Germany who had lost the First World War came under new leadership in the form of Adolf Hitler. Hitler seized power from Germany and

Hitler knew that if he wanted to end Germany’s suffering he needed help to restore their economy, “He allied Germany with Mussolini and Italy. Then Hitler looked to restore Germany to power by expanding his empire.” After joining allies with Mussolini and Italy he began to obtain power. In 1938 Hitler took over Austria and he became highly powerful when the league of nation did nothing to stop Hitler from taking over Austria. As he became bolder he took over Czechoslovakia and a year later, after he invaded Austria. In 1939 Hitler invading Poland, “ September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler’s Nazi state in retaliation.” Once Hitler had invaded Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany creating the start of World War II.

The Treaty of Versailles brought along harsh conditions. These conditions brought Adolf Hitler and his alliance with Italy and Japan to oppose the Soviet Union. Another reason for the second world war was the Italian fascism in the 1920s and the Japanese militarism, and invasions of China in the 1930s. One major reason was the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Hitler and his Nazi party with their aggressive foreign policies. When Hitler invaded Poland, France and Britain declared war against Germany. After taking over Poland, Germany went for France. In June of 1940 France finally fell. Soon the Nazis ran most of Europe and North Africa. Soon enough the Axis powers surrendered. May 8, 1945. The allies accepted Germanys surrender after a week of discovering Hilters body dead in his underground

In 1939, World War 2 began when Adolf Hitler, leader of the German NAZI party, invaded Poland. This led France and Brittan to declare war upon. This had a huge impact of the world as it killed over 60 million people. This is true that Hitler’s Expansionist policies were a major cause for WW2, along with the Appeasement of Germany by Britain and France in 1938-1939 and the failure of the League of Nations that were also major factors contributing to World War 2. However, it was also Germany’s Humiliation which came from the signing of the Treaty of Versailles which was the most significant cause of World War 2.

I have decided to write about World War II, because it was the most deadly Conflict of all of the Wars that we have yet to witness. World War II dated from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. World War II was fought in Europe, the Pacific, Atlantic, South-East Asia, China, Middle East, Mediterranean and Northern Africa. It was a War between the Allied Nations and the Axis Nations. The Allied nations included mostly United States soldiers but also included soldiers from at least twelve different nations. The Main Allied powers were France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. The other Allies of the United Nations were Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dominican Republic, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Poland, Salvador, South Africa, Yugoslavia, Philippines, Mexico, Ethiopia, Iraq, some freed Frenchman, and some freed Danes. The Commanders of the Allied Forces were Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Chiang Kai-shek, and Charles de Gaulle. The Commanders of the Axis Forces were Adolf Hitler, Hirohito, and Benito Mussolini.

Post World War I Germany was left in ruins, and a horrible Treaty of Versailles left bitterness in the German’s hearts. The Weimar Republic would then take control over Germany, but the Germans viewed it as a weak government. This left a perfect opportunity for Fascist leader Adolf Hitler to take charge. Hitler began violating the terms set by the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarizing the Rhineland in 1936, and annexing Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938. Due to Britain’s policy of appeasement, these acts met little military response. Hitler then looked to

From the middle to late 1930s, Hitler corroded the postwar international order step by step. He withdrew Germany from the League of Nations in 1933, rebuilt German armed forces over what was allowed by the Treaty of Versailles, reoccupied the German Rhineland in 1936, invaded and took over Austria in 1938, and invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939 (History.com). They did this because they wanted more territory and resources after losing World War I and having to pay reparations and give up land, and did not think anyone would try to and succeed at stopping them. When the Nazis moved toward Poland, Great Britain and France guaranteed that they would protect Poland. Germany did not listen, invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany. The Nazis, at that time, thought that France and Great Britain’s armies were to weakened because of World War I , but they were wrong. Six years of the Nazi Party's foreign policy had ignited World War II. The Nazi’s would soon lose, but they would put up a great fight, that would leave about sixty million people dead and twenty-five million people wounded in war

In 1939 he attacked Poland unleashing a Blitzkrieg or “Lightning War” that soon defeated the country. 1939 England and France declared war on Hitler and WWII had officially began. As Poland fell the last remnants

It is imperative to understand the events leading up to the invasion. After World War I, Germany was left powerless and belittled. They had a debt that would take years to pay off, and were held publicly responsible for the war. The Germans felt angry and alone, until 1933, when Adolf Hitler came into power. He understood how the Germans felt and the Germans sympathized with his ideas- they resented the rest of the world for Germany’s poor treatment after World War I.

On September 1, 1938 the Second World war Started with the Poland by Germany under the command of Adolf Hitler. Using their blitzkrieg technique, Germany easily crushed Poland’s defences and took it over with help from the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Using the same technique, Adolf Hitler had his armies go for France. The Battle of France began in May 10, 1940 to June 25. 1940 but was officially ended on June 22 with a treaty that split France North and South with the Northern part under control by the Germans. France would not be free from the Nazi regime until most of it was liberated by the allies by the Summer of 1944.

Germany had originally scheduled the invasion of the Soviet Union for mid – May 1941, but the unforeseen necessity of invading Yugoslavia and Greece in April of the year forced them to postpone the Soviet campaign to late June. The swiftness of Hitler’s Balkan victories enabled him to keep to this revised timetable, but the five weeks’ delay shortened the time for carrying out the invasion of the U.S.S.R. and was to prove the more serious because in 1941 the Russian winter would arrive earlier than usual. Nevertheless, Hitler and his generals were convinced that the Red Army could be defeated in two or three months and that by the end of October the Germans would have conquered the whole European part of Russia and Ukraine. The invasion of the Soviet Union was originally given the code name Operation Fritz, but as preparations began, Hitler renamed it Operation Barbarossa, after Holy Roman emperor Frederick Barbarossa (reigned 1152–90), who sought to establish German predominance in Europe.

Hitler’s violations of the Treaty of Versailles and Britain and France’s policy of appeasement additionally led to World War II. Aggressive actions taken by Japan, Italy, and Germany added to the worldwide chaos that would eventually result in World War II. In 1931 Japan attacked Manchuria and became more involved in mainland China, the League of Nations did nothing to stop Japan and later the aggressive actions taken by Japan cause a war between China and Japan. This involvement and increased tensions would later lead to the outbreak of war in the Pacific (Lyons 49). Mussolini’s hostile invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 received no consequences from the League of Nations, further proving that the League of Nations had no power and that Mussolini