World War II
World War II was the biggest war ever fought. Nearly 30 million people were killed in it. About half were civilians while the other half were soldiers, sailors, and airmen. The war was fought all over the world, but the most important battles took place on the Islands in the Pacific and in Europe. The two sides were called the Axis and the Allies. The war lasted from 1939 to 1945; the chief countries of the Allies were the United States, Great Britain, Russia, France, and China. The Axis countries were Germany, Italy, and Japan. In March, 1938, Germany took over Austria by force. A few months later Adolf Hitler said he wanted to take part of Czechoslovakia. Hitler and Benito Mussolini met the head of the governments of Great Britain and France in Munich, Germany to talk it over, and Hitler was allowed to annex that part of Czechoslovakia. In 1939 Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia, and threatened war against Poland, while Mussolini conquered Albania. In August, 1939 Hitler made an alliance with Russia, and an agreement to partition Poland. On September first, 1939 the German army attacked Poland from the west, and that was the start of World War II in the European Theater. Two days later Great Britain and France de
In Russia the Germans advanced again. In North Africa the German forces went almost to the Suez Canal before they were stopped. In the Atlantic Ocean German submarines were sinking allied ships. Then the tide turned. The Russians stopped the German army at Stalingrad. Meanwhile thousands of American troops were arriving in England and American and British planes began bombing German cities and factories. The Germans were finally getting a taste of there own medicine. The Russians were winning back territories previously lost. In October 1942 the British won a great victory in North Africa and began driving forces westward. The German and Italian forces were pushed to Tunisia where they surrendered in May 1943. Then the Allies landed in Sicily and captured it. By September American and British troops invaded Italy. The Japanese thought they could beat the United States and did not heed to President Roosevelt's warning. On December 7, 1941, with out any warning Japanese planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands. By this attack Japan nearly destroyed the entire United Sates fleet that was anchored at Pearl Harbor. So on the next day December 8th President Franklin D Roosevelt and the rest of America declared war on Japan. Three days later Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. In 1941 Americas Army and Air Force were very small compared to Germany and Japan's, but the American industry was by no means small. They stopped making automobiles an other peacetime products and began to make guns, planes, tanks, ships, and other things needed to fight a war. In fact the American's industry played a big factor in the war, because they were able to produce far more weapons than all of the, other countries. Suddenly the war had came to an end unexpectedly. The Allies strategy had worked on both fronts. In the Pacific cutting off supplies and building bases for attacks on Japan. In the European Theatre recapturing land and advancing. Both campaigns were similar in strategy of advancement but different in securing of territory and cutting of resources.
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