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Dictators, Nations, Political Beliefs, and Aggressive Actions.
After the first world war, the concept of war made people nervous. No one wanted to go back to that, but at the same time those in Germany (under Hitler), those in Russia (under Stalin), and those in Italy (under Russia) wanted change. They wanted to move up instead of constantly moving down with economic despair. They felt that socialism and dictators provided a safety. While that way wasn't the best it was better than they had, and that was good enough. -
WWii Conscription
Unlike other European countries, Britain had always relied on volunteers to fight in times of war. Conscription had been introduced in 1916 when more men were needed to fight in the trenches, but it was abandoned when the war ended. -
homefront- War Production
Military production during World War II includes the arms, ammunition, natural resources, personnel and financing which were mobilized for the war. Military production, in this article, means everything produced by the belligerents from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945. -
Occupations
Poland was only the start. Soon after German successfully occupied Poland they continued to occupy near by places. Including the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Greece, and Norway. With the invasion it brought over half a million Jews under control of the Germans. The experience of these Nazi occupied places for the Jews was very similar to those in Germany. -
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World War II
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"Blitzkrieg"
Blitzkrieg is a German word for “lightning war”. It is a form of warfare used by the Germans during World War II. The strategy was that troops in vehicles, such as tanks, would make quick strikes with support from airplanes. Mainly in large areas. First successfully used against Poland in September 1939. This tactic helped the Germans quickly take over France during the war in May, 1940. -
Resistance Movements
Resistance movements occurred in every German occupied country.To go against Nazi political polices. Most of the more violent and brutal resistances happened in eastern Europe. There were a variety of ways, from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda. To hiding crashed pilots,warfare,and the recapturing of towns. -
Battle of Britain
This was a military campaign during World War II. Where the Royal Air Force defend the United Kingdom from the German Air Force attacks. With a use of bombs to strike. Yet, the British Royal Air Force drove them out with the help of the new invention radar that let them know where the German planes were. As well as using search lights. So the British we able to successfully defend themselves. -
The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the Nazi solution to their economic depression. None the less, it was the ruthless murder of six million European Jews, all innocent. They were processed through concentration camps where they would perform hard labor or die. It is considered the deadliest genocide in history. -
support of WWii
The home front of the United States in World War II supported the war effort in many ways, including a wide range of volunteer efforts and submitting to government-managed rationing and price controls. Everyone agreed that the sacrifices were for the national good "for the duration." -
Propaganda
During active American involvement in World War II (1941–45), propaganda was used to increase support for the war and commitment to an Allied victory. Using a vast array of media, propagandists instigated hatred for the enemy and support for America's allies, urged greater public effort for war production and victory gardens, persuaded people to save some of their material so that more material could be used for the war effort, and sold war bonds. -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. -
US enters the War
The US did not enter the war till a couple years later. What got the US into the war was when Japanese bombed the American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. There was tension between US and Japan because Japan continued its march into new lands, gaining territory and valuable natural resources. Them President Roosevelt tried to slow them down by cutting of their key resources. Then Prime Minister Hideki Tojo thought it was time to eliminate the US in the Pacific by attacking Pearl Harbor. -
The Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war from Saisaih Point, Bagac, Bataan and Mariveles to Camp O'Donnell, Capas, Tarlac, via San Fernando, Pampanga, where the prisoners were loaded onto trains. -
Financing WWii
World War II was the most expensive war in American history, exceeding all other conflicts in economic impact. Nearly forty million Americans paid income taxes for the first time, and an elaborate price control system touched the life of every consumer. -
Battle of Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway
World War II. The Battle of Midway was one of the most important battles of World War II. It was the turning point of the war in the Pacific between the United States and Japan. The battle took place over four days between June 4th and June 7th in 1942. -
The Battle of Guadalcanal
The Battle of Guadalcanal. The Battle of Guadalcanal took place in 1942 when the US Marines landed on August 7th. The landing at Guadalcanal was unopposed – but it took the Americans six months to defeat the Japanese in what was to turn into a classic battle of attrition -
D-Day
This was the code-name for the first day of the military attack on the German occupied France from the Americans and the British. This marked the beginning of the victory of the Allies in Europe. Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. This was considered the largest invasion force in history. And major turning point for the war. -
Battle of the Bulge
This was the last German offensive campaign. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg, on the Western Front, towards the end of the war. After recapturing France, the Allies advances stopped along the German border. In the winter of 1944, Germany staged a massive counterattack which pushed a 30 mile "bulge" into the Allied lines. The Allies stopped the German advance and threw them back across the Rhine with heavy losses. -
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Conference of the Big Three
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt meet and agree to force Germany to surrender and began to plan a post-war-world. (After all they believed this would be the last war to ever surface.) -
The Battle Iwo Jima
The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. -
Liberations
In April 1945 this was the start of the liberation. Allies such as America and Britain were started to take back some Nazi occupied places. The started to liberate Nazi concentration camps. US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945. The Nazi in many of the camps that had yet to be liberated started to evacuate. -
The dropping of the atomic bomb-Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were conducted by the United States during the final stages of World War II in August 1945. The two bombings were the first and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in wartime. -
V-J Day
V-J Day is the day that the Japanese forces surrenders ending WWII completely. -
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Nuremberg Trials
Crime Trials held for major war criminals, aka the Nazis, for crimes against humanity. -
Race for Berlin
The Race to Berlin was a competition between two Soviet marshals, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Konev, to be the first to enter Berlin during the final months of World War II. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender of its armed forces.[3] It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe. -
Occupation
After the war Occupation happened in two forms, in Western Northern, and Central Europe. Germany was split between West and East sides by the Berlin wall. -
The Marshall Plan
This plan was an American plan to help Europe rebuild itself after the war in order to eliminate future conflict. We gave them 13 billion (worth 130 billion today).
