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What was 1 or two causes of WWII(before the fighting?
Two causes of WW2 before all the fighting are the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression this is because with the Treaty of Versailles most if not all Germans hated it because they didn't have a say in it they were just forced to agree with it and it destroyed there economy and starve their children. How the Great Depression takes a part in this is because with a already barely working economy after WW1 now that the US is recalling its lons it just collapsed and the people(Go to next one -
What was 1 or two causes of WWII(before the fighting?
Part two) didn't know what to do or how to fix it. So when Hitler and the Nazi party said and promised that they could fix the economy and they knew what was stopping them from fixing the country, the people came in flocks. -
First Events of WW2
On September 1 in 1939 Germany invades Poland with a new type of battle strategy called blitzkrieg and with it the German army brings destruction and death and makes it impossible for the Polish army to send any reinforcements by destroying Communications, roads, and railroads. On July 10, 1940, A huge number of German Luftwaffe were spotted flying over the channel and this marked the start of the Battle for Britain which saw Britain being hammer by bombs and continuous air attacks (go to next -
First Events of WW2 part 2
page) and thousands of deaths. At first, it looked like the Luftwaffe would overwhelm the RAF but soon after things started to look different for the RAF, Germans began to lose more planes than the RAF and soon after that, the RAF was overwhelming German factories because they couldn't replace the downed aircraft fast enough. -
The Asian Theater of WW2
The South-East Asian Theatre of World War II took place in Burma, India, Thailand, the Philippines, Indochina, Malaya, and Singapore, and saw in total about 20.2 million deaths. The Imperial Japanese Army was controlling all army land and air units in South East Asia. Japan attacked British and American territories with near-simultaneous offensives against Southeast Asia and the Central. The Allies suffered many defeats in the first half of the war. -
Pacific: First Events of WWII
The Doolittle Raid, also known as the Tokyo Raid, was an air raid on 18 April 1942 by the United States on the Japanese capital Tokyo and other places on Honshu during World War II. It was the first air operation to strike the Japanese archipelago. In early May 1942, The Battle of the Coral Sea was fought between the U.S. and Japan. It was the first battle to be fought entirely by carrier-based aircraft. Not one warship came within sight of each other. -
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway of a major offensive by Japan in the Pacific theatre on 6, 4, 1942, and changed the outcome of the war in the Pacific theatre. It saw Japan lose all 4 of its aircraft carriers, and 300 planes demolished. -
Turning points during the war in Europe
The battle of Stalingrad started on August 23, 1942, and lasted until February 2, 1943. The battle was between Germany and its allies to gain a foothold in the Soviet Union. So they could launch attacks from Stalingrad and hopefully, take control of the Soviet Union and its land and resources. To this day the battle of Stalingrad is one of the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare, with an estimated 2 million total casualties, and is one of the first battles to have women fight in it. -
Leapfrogging aka Island Hopping
Island Hopping is a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against the Empire of Japan during World War II. The key idea of it is to bypass heavily fortified enemy islands instead of trying to capture every island in sequence. -
turning points during the war in Europe
D-Day started in 1944 and lasted until 1944. D-Day was the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control and saw 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France’s Normandy region. The battle lasted 2 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days, and in total saw 4,400 Allied troops die on the beaches alone, and saw the Allies push the Germans all the way back to Rhone Valley which is 501 miles away. -
How did the war in Europe end?
On May 7, 1945 representatives from the Allied high command accepted the unconditional surrender of Germany, and on September 2, 1945, the rest of the Axis powers surrendered marking the end of World War II. The Battle of the Bulge was a huge German offensive to try and split the advancing Allied troops into 2 but German troops’ failed to divide Britain, France, and America into 2 areas. -
The Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces to charge the Nazis with their crimes. These trials are considered to be the gratis trials in history.
The Nuremberg trials were made up of representatives from the United States, the Soviet Union, France, and Great Britain. It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges ranging from crimes against peace, crimes of war, and crimes against humanity. 1945-1946.