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The devastation of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time) had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many respects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that earlier conflict. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany, and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled t...
In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which incited a frenzy of worry in London and Paris. Hitler had long planned an invasion of Poland, a nation to which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it were attacked by Germany. The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler...
On April 9, 1940, Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, and the war began in earnest. On May 10, German forces swept through Belgium and the Netherlands in what became known as “blitzkrieg,” or lightning war. Three days later, Hitler’s troops crossed the Meuse River and struck French forces at Sedan, located at the northern en...
By early 1941, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria had joined the Axis, and German troops overran Yugoslavia and Greece that April. Hitler’s conquest of the Balkans was a precursor for his real objective: an invasion of the Soviet Union, whose vast territory would give the German master race the “Lebensraum” it needed. The other half of Hitler’s strategy...
With Britain facing Germany in Europe, the United States was the only nation capable of combating Japanese aggression, which by late 1941 included an expansion of its ongoing war with China and the seizure of European colonial holdings in the Far East. On December 7, 1941, 360 Japanese aircraft attacked the major U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in ...
In North Africa, British and American forces had defeated the Italians and Germans by 1943. An Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy followed, and Mussolini’s government fell in July 1943, though Allied fighting against the Germans in Italy would continue until 1945. On the Eastern Front, a Soviet counteroffensive launched in November 1942 ended the ...
At the Potsdam Conference of July-August 1945, U.S. President Harry S. Truman(who had taken office after Roosevelt’s death in April), Churchill and Stalin discussed the ongoing war with Japan as well as the peace settlement with Germany. Post-war Germany would be divided into four occupation zones, to be controlled by the Soviet Union, Britain, the...
World War II exposed a glaring paradox within the United States Armed Forces. Although more than 1 million African Americans served in the war to defeat Nazism and fascism, they did so in segregated units. The same discriminatory Jim Crowpolicies that were rampant in American society were reinforced by the U.S. military. Black servicemen rarely saw...
World War II proved to be the deadliest international conflict in history, taking the lives of 60 to 80 million people, including 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust. Civilians made up an estimated 50-55 million deaths from the war, while military comprised 21 to 25 million of those lost during the war. Millions m...
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World War II, the largest and bloodiest conflict in human history, started with Japan's increasing militarism and nationalism in the early 1900s. Japan occupied Korea and invaded Manchuria, exploiting China's civil war.
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- What was Canada's role in all this?Canada entered into WWII on September 10th 1939. The first contingents of Canadian troops arrived in the United Kingdom with in two months, to supp...
- Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany? 7:11 Is Poland in an agreement with them or somet...Britain and France declared war on Germany because they had warned Hitler that he was going too far invading countries (such as Czechoslovakia and...
- What made the Second Sino-Japanese War so bloody? 3:03The Japanese had superior weapons (the US sold stuff to them at first). They had planes, ships, artillery, tanks, etc, while the Chinese barely had...
- at 1:23 he says china is in a civil war with japan. but in civil wars it is one country fights thems...I think you need to listen again. I just did. He had shifted from talking about Japan, and had begun to talk about China in that era, and stated th...
- Why did japan want to take over so many places?Similar to how Hitler intended on Germany's global expansion and annexed so many countries in the western hemisphere, Japan was another country tha...
- I know the US is coming out of a depression in the late 30s... had the rest of the globe already rec...Reparations _imposed_ on *Germany* following *WWI* left the company poorer and economic woes caused resentment amongst its population. *The Great D...
- why are they called the national National *Socialist* German Workers' Party if they hate socialism?They're kinda complicated. See, the NSGWP emerged from German Nationalists that fought against Communistic uprisings in WWI. They attracted workers...
- How do you classify something as a World War?There is no official definition/classification. It is just a descriptive name applied to those particular conflicts. Some scholars have suggested t...
- What was Hitler's motive for ww2?Hitler wanted to restore Germany to greatness, which involved both it being the dominant empire over the rest of the world and the "Aryan race" ris...
- Why did japan all of a sudden want to challenge a international superpower like China? Resources? Mo...Geologically Japan is an island, the island formed because of the tectonic plates beneath them so there are always earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,...
2 days ago · World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human history.
May 30, 2021 · published on 30 May 2021. In which John Green teaches you about World War II, aka The Great Patriotic War, aka The Big One. So how did this war happen? And what does it mean?
