Germany
Hitler is an infamous figure-head of WWII. Most Notably for the Holocaust. Starting out as just a nasty prejudice, Antisemitism grew into a full belief practiced throughout all of Germany. Hitler was able to effectively strengthen these beliefs, because it wasn't that hard for the Germans. They were already blaming Jews for the bank failures that took place in Hitler's rise of power and the Great Depression. It originally went as far as putting Antisemitism into the doctrines called the Nuremberg Laws. These laws dictated that Jews were forbidden to be German citizens, have jobs, or have property. They also had to wear a bright yellow star that helped identify them to the Nazis. In 1938, a young man was with his uncle in France. He found out there by postcard that his father was deported to Poland. Angry about this, he shot a German employee in Paris. Seeking revenge, Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses and Synagogues. After breaking all of the windows, this day, November 9, 1938, would be named Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). After this, Jews were considered a huge problem. Hitler thought that the best plan was emigration. Approximately 245,000 Jews were deported to France, Britain, Latin America, and the US. After a while, no country would admit anymore, and the Germans took it as a sign that Jews must have been an even bigger problem because no one wanted them. Since that hadn't worked, Hitler pushed them all into ghettos in Poland, sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls. The plan for the ghettos was to starve the Jews or hope that they would catch disease. This apparently took too long, because he moved on to his final plan, which was Hitler organizing a mass genocide of the Jews. Hitler believed in purity, so he did kill off other races, but just focused on the Jews. Others that were considered "impure subhumans" were gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, the handicapped, and the extremely sick. When the Germans invaded Poland, they took all of the impure that they could find and killed them. All others there were sent to concentration camps in Germany and Poland. Here Jews and other subhumans were starved, worked, and/or beaten to death. In 1942, extermination camps were set up, equipped with gas chambers. These killing machines could successfully take out up to six thousand people in a day. Doctors were usually the ones deciding those who were to be gassed, or burned in the giant ovens. They would separate the weak from the strong, and the strong get to live for another week or so. Only about four out of ten million "subhumans" survived.
After World War I, Germany lost the Polish Corridor so that Poland could have access to the sea. In April of 1939, Hitler demanded that the Polish Corridor be part of Germany once again. About four months later, Hitler and Stalin created a non-aggression pact that promised both of them extra land. The main agreement was to split Poland between the two of them. Hitler promised him, in addition to some of Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Hitler quickly carried out said plans, launching a surprise attack one week later. He dispatched around two million soldiers in addition to warplanes with numerous bombs. Using the "blitzkrieg" method of all forces moving swiftly at once became the Lightning War. The Allies (Great Britain and France) declared war on Germany two days later. This was the start of World War Two. Fortunately for Hitler, Poland fell almost a month before the Allies cold help. Hitler took about half of Poland (Western half). Stalin took the other half, and the Baltic Countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia). They all fell quickly, but Finland fought back (The Finns attacked on skis, while the Soviets struggled because of snow. They eventually won because of their mass number of soldiers.) After all of this, there was a month of calm because both sides were waited for the other to attack. Growing tired, Hitler conquered Denmark (several hours) and Norway (a few months). He was going to use this extra territory to take out France, then Great Britain. Now having Germany, part of the Czech Republic, half of Poland, and Denmark and Norway, he took Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Ten days later, his forces reached the coast of France. Hitler used the territories to trap the Allies, who fled to Dunkirk (a port city in France) in order to escape to Great Britain. A week later, Mussolini (Italy's dictator, friend of Hitler) joined in and declared war on the Allies. Two weeks later, France surrendered. Charles de Gaulle was a French general and when he fled to London, he created a French government-in-exile saying that France needed to be re-conquered. France was freed four years later. The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, said that great Britain would not stop fighting. Many bombs were dropped in places like London, and it seemed as though the Germans would pull off world domination. But the British ad something the Germans didn't...radar. The British used radar to track down German warplanes and were able to stop them. This lasted about a year. After seeing how much Britain could take, Hitler withdrew and started to Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Mussolini helped out here by attempting to take Britain's Egypt. Unfortunately, Britain fought back and had taken over one hundred thousand prisoners. While Britain was fighting the Italians, then later the Germans again, Hitler was planning to betray Stalin. Hitler thought that he needed more power, so Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania joined the Axis Powers (the ever increasing Germany and Italy). Germany conquered Yugoslavia and Greece in the following three weeks. Two months later, Germany moved into Russia with a surprise blitzkrieg. The bombs destroyed almost everything, and over a million Russians died of starvation. The winter killed about half as many Germans. Around this time, Americans persuaded Congress to stop being neutral and send weapons to the Allies. When Hitler heard of this, he sent submarines to sink any cargo ships found. In August of 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill created the Atlantic Charter. This allowed countries to have free trade with each other.
Japan
Japan's entrance to the war starts in August of 1940. America was worried about its colonies of the Philippines and Guam. The Americans gave China money for weapons so that they could stop Japan (the US wanted to be neutral). When the Japanese continued to advance, President Roosevelt of America cut off oil shipments to Japan. Japan realized the threat to their conquests that the US posed, so while they were still advancing in the Pacific and into Southeast Asia, they also planned on attacking the US fleet in Hawaii. Americans cracked a Japanese code stating that they were going to attack, but they did not know when or where this attack was going to happen. The Japanese sunk almost twenty ships, and killed about twenty four hundred people. After that surprise attack, the Japanese took Guam and launched an attack on the Philippines. All of this took a year and a half. By April, they had taken over Singapore, Indonesia (Dutch colonies), Malaya, Burma, Hong Kong (British colony), and the Philippines. Also in April of 1942, America got revenge on the Japanese by dropping sixteen B-25 bombs. Although it did not do much, it boosted the confidence of the Americans. In June of 1942, another code was broken stating that over one hundred fifty ships were going to take over Midway (American airfield between Japan and Hawaii) and Hawaii. Admiral Nimitz (America) had the ships and planes wait beyond the horizon, letting the Japanese strike first. While the Japanese were doing so, the American planes surprise attacked them, destroying three hundred twenty two planes. After that victory, Army officer Douglas MacArthur suggested going from island to island, taking out weaker Japanese-conquered islands. After that , the Americans would cut supply line in Japan, and starve the Japanese. The Americans were victorious.
The End
On December 1941, Winston Churchill of Britain, President Roosevelt of America, and Joseph Stalin of Russia had discussed a joint war. They all believed that Germany was becoming a problem, and they agreed to work together to stop it. The Allies agreed to fight the ever-growing Germany on the West, while Stalin continued to fight them on the East, calling it a "war on two fronts". Churchill decided later that the Allies should start with Northern Africa, then jump to Southern Europe, then make its way up to Eastern Front. In late 1942, the Allies reached the Mediterranean. They fought the battle of El Alamein (German controlled village in Egypt) on October 23rd. The Allies won on November 3rd. While the Germans were losing in the Mediterranean were losing, the Germans were losing in Russia as well. A lot of the Germans (about five hundred thousand) up there died due to the winter. The Russians started really fighting on August 23, 1942. This was the battle of Stalingrad. This was important mainly because Stalin refused to let the city with his namesake be taken over by Germans. The Germans were still dropping bombs around here and by November, most of the city was German controlled. on the nineteenth, the Russian Army closed in around the burned city and trapped the Germans, cutting off their supplies. On February 2, 1943, the ninety thousand survivors out of about 330,000 Nazis surrendered, frost-bitten. Although the Russians lost over one million soldiers, they still won Stalingrad. On July 10, 1943, the Allies went from Northwest from Morocco to Italy and took over from the German and Italian fascists. This is what took Mussolini out of power. Italy surrendered on September 3, but then the Germans retaliate by re-conquering Northern Italy and putting Mussolini back in power. Italian resistance, however, during an ambush of German trucks, found Mussolini disguised and a German soldier (probably hoping to escape with the retreating Germans) . He was shot then hanged in public the next day. In Europe, The Americans were planning an attack on Germany. (In order to completely win, though, the Allies needed more weapons. In America, factories were converted into wartime productions. Car factories made tanks, typewriter companies made bullets, etc. By 1944, about eighteen million Americans were working for war-related companies. The main downside to this in both Ally home countries was the rations. The average things weren't being made as much anymore, so there were some shortages on things like gas, rubber, sugar, meat, and others.) As a set-up for Hitler, the Americans set up a fake army in France to draw Hitler's attention. They were actually going to invade the port of Normandy in order to re-liberate France. The invasion, later named D-Day, was on June 6, 1944. In Normandy, Germans had machine guns, rocket launchers, and cannons with concrete walls about three feet thick. On July 25, the Allies broke through. On August 25, they got to Paris. By September, they freed France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the Netherlands. After that, they turned their attention to the original battle plan and went to Germany from the West. And as this was happening, the Russians stared coming from the East. Hitler was growing frantic and tried to split up the allies in the West. This was called the Battle of the Bulge, which ended up with the surrender of Germany. By April 25, 1945, the Allies and Soviets surrounded Berlin. On April 28, he got married, and wrote his final thoughts down about the war. He said that the Jews started it, and the Army generals are the people who failed in completing their mission. On April 30, Hitler poisoned himself then shot himself, while his wife poisoned herself. Their bodies were burned. V-E Day was celebrated on May 8 signifying the Victory in Europe. After this, the Allies decided to battle Japan. Although the Japanese took out the first fleet, the Allies eventually won, using the A-Bomb. When President Truman of America was told that about five hundred thousand Allies would be killed if they invaded Japan, he decided to drop the first ever A-Bomb (The Manhattan Project, developed in Chicago) in a desert in New mexico as a warning. When the Japanese did not reply to the warning letter, Truman dropped bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, respectively. The total amount of deaths was about 110,500 people. The Japanese surrendered on September 2, thus ending the Second World War.
Post-War
After the war, about forty million Europeans were dead. Almost everywhere was reduced to nothingness. Everyone everywhere was searching for a place to be. Some lived in what was left of homes and apartments, some just lived in the ruins. There was very little food and no water or electricity. Thousands died from hunger and disease. What added to people's sadness was the lack of government. In places where Germany had control, without Hitler, they did not know what government to have, or how to put it up. Then Communists stepped up. They won everyone over with their new ideas and promises for change and equality. They didn't want as much attention as they got, though, so they started behaving badly so that the countries would start voting more for the Anti-Communist parties. This happened while the countries were starting to build themselves back up, starting with the trials of the remaining Nazis. Called the Nuremberg Trials, twenty two Nazi leaders were tried for killing eleven million people. Twelve of them were sentenced to death, and the rested were hanged.
In Japan, about two million lives were lost. On August 29, 1945, the US started the occupation of Japan. This led to the demilitarization of Japan. After trying and sentencing six Japanese militants to death, the American created a constitution. In it was an article that stated that the Japanese could not start a war, but only participate if called on for help or if provoked.The Japanese agreed to a parliamentary democracy, modeling after Great Britain. Unfortunately, the US denounced the Japanese Great Emperor to just a figure head of sorts representing Japan. The US then donated two million to the Japanese to help the rebuilding effort. The US, Japan and forty eight other nations are officially allies at this point.
Hitler is an infamous figure-head of WWII. Most Notably for the Holocaust. Starting out as just a nasty prejudice, Antisemitism grew into a full belief practiced throughout all of Germany. Hitler was able to effectively strengthen these beliefs, because it wasn't that hard for the Germans. They were already blaming Jews for the bank failures that took place in Hitler's rise of power and the Great Depression. It originally went as far as putting Antisemitism into the doctrines called the Nuremberg Laws. These laws dictated that Jews were forbidden to be German citizens, have jobs, or have property. They also had to wear a bright yellow star that helped identify them to the Nazis. In 1938, a young man was with his uncle in France. He found out there by postcard that his father was deported to Poland. Angry about this, he shot a German employee in Paris. Seeking revenge, Nazis attacked Jewish homes, businesses and Synagogues. After breaking all of the windows, this day, November 9, 1938, would be named Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass). After this, Jews were considered a huge problem. Hitler thought that the best plan was emigration. Approximately 245,000 Jews were deported to France, Britain, Latin America, and the US. After a while, no country would admit anymore, and the Germans took it as a sign that Jews must have been an even bigger problem because no one wanted them. Since that hadn't worked, Hitler pushed them all into ghettos in Poland, sealed off with barbed wire and stone walls. The plan for the ghettos was to starve the Jews or hope that they would catch disease. This apparently took too long, because he moved on to his final plan, which was Hitler organizing a mass genocide of the Jews. Hitler believed in purity, so he did kill off other races, but just focused on the Jews. Others that were considered "impure subhumans" were gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, the insane, the handicapped, and the extremely sick. When the Germans invaded Poland, they took all of the impure that they could find and killed them. All others there were sent to concentration camps in Germany and Poland. Here Jews and other subhumans were starved, worked, and/or beaten to death. In 1942, extermination camps were set up, equipped with gas chambers. These killing machines could successfully take out up to six thousand people in a day. Doctors were usually the ones deciding those who were to be gassed, or burned in the giant ovens. They would separate the weak from the strong, and the strong get to live for another week or so. Only about four out of ten million "subhumans" survived.
After World War I, Germany lost the Polish Corridor so that Poland could have access to the sea. In April of 1939, Hitler demanded that the Polish Corridor be part of Germany once again. About four months later, Hitler and Stalin created a non-aggression pact that promised both of them extra land. The main agreement was to split Poland between the two of them. Hitler promised him, in addition to some of Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Hitler quickly carried out said plans, launching a surprise attack one week later. He dispatched around two million soldiers in addition to warplanes with numerous bombs. Using the "blitzkrieg" method of all forces moving swiftly at once became the Lightning War. The Allies (Great Britain and France) declared war on Germany two days later. This was the start of World War Two. Fortunately for Hitler, Poland fell almost a month before the Allies cold help. Hitler took about half of Poland (Western half). Stalin took the other half, and the Baltic Countries (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia). They all fell quickly, but Finland fought back (The Finns attacked on skis, while the Soviets struggled because of snow. They eventually won because of their mass number of soldiers.) After all of this, there was a month of calm because both sides were waited for the other to attack. Growing tired, Hitler conquered Denmark (several hours) and Norway (a few months). He was going to use this extra territory to take out France, then Great Britain. Now having Germany, part of the Czech Republic, half of Poland, and Denmark and Norway, he took Holland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Ten days later, his forces reached the coast of France. Hitler used the territories to trap the Allies, who fled to Dunkirk (a port city in France) in order to escape to Great Britain. A week later, Mussolini (Italy's dictator, friend of Hitler) joined in and declared war on the Allies. Two weeks later, France surrendered. Charles de Gaulle was a French general and when he fled to London, he created a French government-in-exile saying that France needed to be re-conquered. France was freed four years later. The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, said that great Britain would not stop fighting. Many bombs were dropped in places like London, and it seemed as though the Germans would pull off world domination. But the British ad something the Germans didn't...radar. The British used radar to track down German warplanes and were able to stop them. This lasted about a year. After seeing how much Britain could take, Hitler withdrew and started to Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Mussolini helped out here by attempting to take Britain's Egypt. Unfortunately, Britain fought back and had taken over one hundred thousand prisoners. While Britain was fighting the Italians, then later the Germans again, Hitler was planning to betray Stalin. Hitler thought that he needed more power, so Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania joined the Axis Powers (the ever increasing Germany and Italy). Germany conquered Yugoslavia and Greece in the following three weeks. Two months later, Germany moved into Russia with a surprise blitzkrieg. The bombs destroyed almost everything, and over a million Russians died of starvation. The winter killed about half as many Germans. Around this time, Americans persuaded Congress to stop being neutral and send weapons to the Allies. When Hitler heard of this, he sent submarines to sink any cargo ships found. In August of 1941, Roosevelt and Churchill created the Atlantic Charter. This allowed countries to have free trade with each other.
Japan
Japan's entrance to the war starts in August of 1940. America was worried about its colonies of the Philippines and Guam. The Americans gave China money for weapons so that they could stop Japan (the US wanted to be neutral). When the Japanese continued to advance, President Roosevelt of America cut off oil shipments to Japan. Japan realized the threat to their conquests that the US posed, so while they were still advancing in the Pacific and into Southeast Asia, they also planned on attacking the US fleet in Hawaii. Americans cracked a Japanese code stating that they were going to attack, but they did not know when or where this attack was going to happen. The Japanese sunk almost twenty ships, and killed about twenty four hundred people. After that surprise attack, the Japanese took Guam and launched an attack on the Philippines. All of this took a year and a half. By April, they had taken over Singapore, Indonesia (Dutch colonies), Malaya, Burma, Hong Kong (British colony), and the Philippines. Also in April of 1942, America got revenge on the Japanese by dropping sixteen B-25 bombs. Although it did not do much, it boosted the confidence of the Americans. In June of 1942, another code was broken stating that over one hundred fifty ships were going to take over Midway (American airfield between Japan and Hawaii) and Hawaii. Admiral Nimitz (America) had the ships and planes wait beyond the horizon, letting the Japanese strike first. While the Japanese were doing so, the American planes surprise attacked them, destroying three hundred twenty two planes. After that victory, Army officer Douglas MacArthur suggested going from island to island, taking out weaker Japanese-conquered islands. After that , the Americans would cut supply line in Japan, and starve the Japanese. The Americans were victorious.
The End
On December 1941, Winston Churchill of Britain, President Roosevelt of America, and Joseph Stalin of Russia had discussed a joint war. They all believed that Germany was becoming a problem, and they agreed to work together to stop it. The Allies agreed to fight the ever-growing Germany on the West, while Stalin continued to fight them on the East, calling it a "war on two fronts". Churchill decided later that the Allies should start with Northern Africa, then jump to Southern Europe, then make its way up to Eastern Front. In late 1942, the Allies reached the Mediterranean. They fought the battle of El Alamein (German controlled village in Egypt) on October 23rd. The Allies won on November 3rd. While the Germans were losing in the Mediterranean were losing, the Germans were losing in Russia as well. A lot of the Germans (about five hundred thousand) up there died due to the winter. The Russians started really fighting on August 23, 1942. This was the battle of Stalingrad. This was important mainly because Stalin refused to let the city with his namesake be taken over by Germans. The Germans were still dropping bombs around here and by November, most of the city was German controlled. on the nineteenth, the Russian Army closed in around the burned city and trapped the Germans, cutting off their supplies. On February 2, 1943, the ninety thousand survivors out of about 330,000 Nazis surrendered, frost-bitten. Although the Russians lost over one million soldiers, they still won Stalingrad. On July 10, 1943, the Allies went from Northwest from Morocco to Italy and took over from the German and Italian fascists. This is what took Mussolini out of power. Italy surrendered on September 3, but then the Germans retaliate by re-conquering Northern Italy and putting Mussolini back in power. Italian resistance, however, during an ambush of German trucks, found Mussolini disguised and a German soldier (probably hoping to escape with the retreating Germans) . He was shot then hanged in public the next day. In Europe, The Americans were planning an attack on Germany. (In order to completely win, though, the Allies needed more weapons. In America, factories were converted into wartime productions. Car factories made tanks, typewriter companies made bullets, etc. By 1944, about eighteen million Americans were working for war-related companies. The main downside to this in both Ally home countries was the rations. The average things weren't being made as much anymore, so there were some shortages on things like gas, rubber, sugar, meat, and others.) As a set-up for Hitler, the Americans set up a fake army in France to draw Hitler's attention. They were actually going to invade the port of Normandy in order to re-liberate France. The invasion, later named D-Day, was on June 6, 1944. In Normandy, Germans had machine guns, rocket launchers, and cannons with concrete walls about three feet thick. On July 25, the Allies broke through. On August 25, they got to Paris. By September, they freed France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and most of the Netherlands. After that, they turned their attention to the original battle plan and went to Germany from the West. And as this was happening, the Russians stared coming from the East. Hitler was growing frantic and tried to split up the allies in the West. This was called the Battle of the Bulge, which ended up with the surrender of Germany. By April 25, 1945, the Allies and Soviets surrounded Berlin. On April 28, he got married, and wrote his final thoughts down about the war. He said that the Jews started it, and the Army generals are the people who failed in completing their mission. On April 30, Hitler poisoned himself then shot himself, while his wife poisoned herself. Their bodies were burned. V-E Day was celebrated on May 8 signifying the Victory in Europe. After this, the Allies decided to battle Japan. Although the Japanese took out the first fleet, the Allies eventually won, using the A-Bomb. When President Truman of America was told that about five hundred thousand Allies would be killed if they invaded Japan, he decided to drop the first ever A-Bomb (The Manhattan Project, developed in Chicago) in a desert in New mexico as a warning. When the Japanese did not reply to the warning letter, Truman dropped bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, respectively. The total amount of deaths was about 110,500 people. The Japanese surrendered on September 2, thus ending the Second World War.
Post-War
After the war, about forty million Europeans were dead. Almost everywhere was reduced to nothingness. Everyone everywhere was searching for a place to be. Some lived in what was left of homes and apartments, some just lived in the ruins. There was very little food and no water or electricity. Thousands died from hunger and disease. What added to people's sadness was the lack of government. In places where Germany had control, without Hitler, they did not know what government to have, or how to put it up. Then Communists stepped up. They won everyone over with their new ideas and promises for change and equality. They didn't want as much attention as they got, though, so they started behaving badly so that the countries would start voting more for the Anti-Communist parties. This happened while the countries were starting to build themselves back up, starting with the trials of the remaining Nazis. Called the Nuremberg Trials, twenty two Nazi leaders were tried for killing eleven million people. Twelve of them were sentenced to death, and the rested were hanged.
In Japan, about two million lives were lost. On August 29, 1945, the US started the occupation of Japan. This led to the demilitarization of Japan. After trying and sentencing six Japanese militants to death, the American created a constitution. In it was an article that stated that the Japanese could not start a war, but only participate if called on for help or if provoked.The Japanese agreed to a parliamentary democracy, modeling after Great Britain. Unfortunately, the US denounced the Japanese Great Emperor to just a figure head of sorts representing Japan. The US then donated two million to the Japanese to help the rebuilding effort. The US, Japan and forty eight other nations are officially allies at this point.