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world war 2
THE GOOD TIMES OF THE 1920s CAME TO AN END IN OCTOBER 1959 WHEN THE NEW YORK STOCK MARKET -
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WHEN DID THE WORLD WAR 2 END
The total number of prisoners taken on the Western Front in April by the Western Allies was 1,500,000.[1] April also witnessed the capture of at least 120,000 German troops by the Western Allies in the last campaign of the war in Italy.[2] In the three or four months up to the end of April, over 800,000 German soldiers surrendered on the Eastern Front.[2] In early April, the first Allied-governed Rheinwiesenlagers were established in western Germany to hold hundreds of thousands of captured or s -
WORLD WAR 2 FACTS
The first German serviceman killed in the war was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937)
The first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940).
80% of Soviet males born in 1923 didn't survive World War 2
The highest ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the US Army Air Corps. -
WORLD WAR 2
Among the causes of World War II were Italian fascism in the 1920s, Japanese militarism and invasions of China in the 1930s, and especially the political takeover in 1933 of Germany by Hitler and his Nazi Party and its aggressive foreign policy. The immediate cause was Britain and France declaring war on Germany after it invaded Poland in September 1939. Problems arose in Weimar Germany that experienced strong currents of revanchism after the Treaty of Versailles that concluded its defeat in Wo -
PEARL HARBOR ATTACKED
