Hitler began holding meetings with others who thought like him, blaming Jewish people for the problems in Europe. The Communists continually tried to break up the meetings of the group who came to be known as the National Socialist Party in 1923. The National Socialist Pa

1944 began well for the Allies, as they invaded and conquered the Marshall Islands in late January. The attack was split into three groups. The first was a task force who annihilated the defenses of seven different islands. The second was a group of reinforced marines who took down the islands of Roi and Namur in only four days of close combat. The final group landed at Majuro, an island wanted for its deep harbors. However, the island had already been evacuated by the Japanese and it was taken over without any fighting. The Japanese air base at Engebi was captured after the loss of 500 Americans' lives. On February sixteenth the naval base of Truk was raided and 201 enemy planes and twenty-three ships were destroyed at the cost of seventeen American planes. Less than a week later 135 planes and eleven surface ships were destroyed at the island of Saipan. Just a month later American forces captured New Guinea which brought them within 300 miles of the Philippines.

Early in the morning of December seventh, 1941 a fleet of 189 Japanese aircraft began attacking Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The first wave of planes destroyed anything it could find, including American aircraft, battleships, destroyers, cruisers, and submarines. The second wave followed shortly and attacked everything the first wave had missed. Anti-aircraft fire was able to deter a third wave, but an incredible amount of damage had already happened. In only one hour, forty five minutes the Japanese air forces wrecked and capsized two battleships and three were resting on the bottom. Nineteen war ships had been hit and 150 aircraft had been disabled. In all over 2,400 American lives were lost, 2,086 from the Navy and 237 from the Army. As a result of the bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States, with many of the Latin American countries, declared war on Germany, Japan and Italy. Although many countries declared war against the Axis nations, only the United States, Brazil, and Mexico actually sent troops to fight.

The Soviets, after rapidly expelling the Germans from their own country, took a little longer to move into Germany. The Soviets did go full force, sending all four of their armies into Germany, north and south of Breslau. By mid-February they had already taken over Bunslau, which is a mere 125 miles from Berlin. Zhukov reached Oder, then Posen along the Warta River, within sixty miles of Berlin. During February of 1945 the armies in the west were having trouble making it up the Rhine. The U.S. Third Corps followed the Germans over the Rhine Bridge after being commanded to "Get five divisions across as quickly as possible." by Eisenhower. The Americans were able to get across the bridge so quickly that the Germans didn't even have time to demolish it. The U.S. First and Ninth Armies linked on April first near Paderborn and held the German Army Group B and two corps of Group H in captivity. After constant air attacks the remaining 325,000 men and 30 general officers surrendered. The Third U.S. Army took Frankfurt, then Kassel. The Seventh U.S. Army crossed the Rhine near Worms and joined with the Third near Darmstadt. As a result of this massive movement of Allied forces, the German defense in the west basically fell apart.

Eisenhower decided to halt many of his troops, knowing that the Soviet forces would be coming through on the other side, fearful that the two allies might mistake each other for enemy. The Americans met the Soviets at Torgau on April twenty-fifth. The Soviet army continued onward toward Berlin and had the city enveloped the same day. Hitler, choosing not to flee with many of his advisers, committed suicide on April thirtieth, knowing that there were Soviet forces just above his bunker. The Berlin forces surrendered on May second. The war on the front next to Italy was surrendered on April twenty-ninth. Mussolini, the ex-dictator of Italy and his mistress, were killed after attempting to escape from impri

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