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Hitler
Germany was defeated in the First World War, was forced to get rid of their military and pay a lot of money. The German people were influenced by the National Socialist German Workers' Party or the Nazi Party. Hitler rose to power in 1933, and German Policy was eventually based entirely on his beliefs. The fact that this all started because of another war and showed history repeating signified that it could be the last war. -
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World War II
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Begining of World War II
The German invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, this is usually seen as the start of World War II. How quickly the war started and how brutally, could be seen as a sign that it would end that way too. -
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg is a war strategy that the Germans developed in world war 2. It means lightning war because its entire purpose is to be as quick as possible. Once again how quick it was going established how abrupt the end would be. -
Lend Lease Program
This was a U.S. policy that established that the U.S. could give money to countries they agreed with without actually fighting in the war. Throughout the war many new military strategies were created and many new policies were put into place. This allowed it to be different from every war before. -
Barbarossa Plan
The Barbarossa plan was the German plan to invade the soviet union. The operation failed and ended up being the turning point of the war. This was when the war started to favor the allies which supported the fact that when the war ended, it ended. -
Pearl Harbor
For the beginning of the war the U.S. decided not to join the war. Then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Then, the U.S. joined the war. If this had not happened the allies might have lost. So, this occurrence made it so that it was the war to end all wars by being the reason that the side that won did. -
Navajo Code Talkers
The U.S. recruited men from a Navajo reservation to create a code. They created a code based on the Navajo language, it was never deciphered. In this war the U.S. brought in people they had not brought in before and it working. This showed the U.S a different way of doing things that could continue after the war, and with a different way of thinking another war might not happen. -
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was one of the most important battles because it was the turning point of the war. During this battle the Germans tried to invade the Soviet Union and failed. This battle was when the allies started winning and if they had not won there would have been a lot more wars. -
D-day
D-day was the beginning of the greatest invasion in history. The allies landed about 155,000 troops on Normandy. This was the start of the end of the war. If this had not happened the allies would have lost and if they had lost there would have been many wars soon after. -
The Liberation of Auschwitz
Over a million people died in Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp established by the Germans. In mid January 1945 the German soldiers forced nearly everyone in Auschwitz to march to Wodzislaw, killing any who lagged behind. Days later the soviet army liberated the few who had remained and they realized just how bad the camps were. How bad the Germans had treated those people would make it far less likely that a corrupt person be put in power and lead to another war. -
Genocide convention
On December 12, 1948 the United Nations adopted the Genocide convention to prevent something like that from ever happening again. The assembly believed that throughout history genocide had time and time again taken so many innocent lives, and that it could be stopped with international cooperation. This was maybe the first time in human history that the nations of the world came together and decided that something should never happen again.
