World War II

Beginning

World War II was a global conflict sparked on September 1st 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi German forces. British and French governments declared war on Nazi Germany but neither would do much to help Poland so the Polish government was forced to surrender to the Nazi German government. Poland is split between the Nazis and the Soviet Union.

1940

In 1940 Winston Churchill became PM of Britain and he was more willing to fight the Nazis then the previous PM. Britain started getting supplies from the US and Canada joins the Allies against the Axis. In 1940 the battle of France takes the Netherlands, France, Luxembourg and Belguim (in no particular order) this swift invasion would be thanks to the strategy of blitzkrieg to quickly invade countries before they could react and force a surrender. This strategy would prove hard to beat but not impossible.

1941

1941 was a very important year when it came to events but the main events were: Pearl harbour and the invasion of the USSR. The bombing of Pearl harbour was when the Empire of Japan bombed the US thus causing war against the Axis. The invasion of the USSR and the opening of the Eastern front against Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Poland and some more would lose a total of 27,000,000 people to the murder and brutality of the Nazi Germans.

1942

The Nazi advance is halted and were pushed back in Stalingrad starting a turning point on the Eastern front and in Midway the Americans win starting a push back in the Pacific. Singapore falls the the Japanese and 25,000 prisoners of war are taken. In Auschwitz in Poland the Germans start the holocaust. The holocaust was the mass murder and genocide inflicted on Jewish people. These Jews were hunted down by the Nazis and taken from Polish ghettos and murdered and few Jewish people escaped the Nazis wrath.

1943

1943 is often called "the turning point of the war" here is what happened: The Allies win in North Africa and push out the Italians so plans for an invasion of Italy can be drafted. Victory in Stalingrad is declared causing the first big failure of the Germans and the Soviet advance continues. The British and Indian forces fight the Japanese in Burma in bloody battle after bloody battle.

1944

In 1944 Operation D-day happened in Normandy in France many think this was to slow the spread of Communism but all involved with D-day took those secrets to the grave. Later in August Paris is freed from the Nazis by the Allies and Canadians land in the Netherlands fighting the Germans there too. The Soviets pick up the the pace with the advance in Eastern Europe and the Germans start rolling down hill fast. In Japan the Chinese push back and force the Japanese out of China and advanced into Manchutikuo.

1945

The last year of the war was 1945 and Auschwitz was liberated and the Jews saved from the Germans Anne Frank would die that year. Later the USSR would take Berlin and Hitler would commit suicide and Germany would surrender not long after Hitler killed himself. The last Axis member Japan would be nuked by the US twice, once in Hiroshima and again in Nagasaki then Japan would surrender on the 14th of August then marking the end of the brutal war that claimed 75,000,000 lives of varying levels of innocence. Germany would be divided in two and the capital also divided while Japan lost their empire and payed lots of war reparations. Germany would only be reunited in 1989!

Summary

Many people died in many countries around the globe but around 60-75m people died and many countries were still scared to this day. Germany and Japans goals for an empire proved a failure and a very expensive one at that.

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