Research on World War 2

Main World Wars figures

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)- is a political figure, ideologist, the best known as a leader of a national socialist (Nazi) party in the Germany during the period of interwar and the second world war. Mao Zedong (1893-1976) is a successor, politician and ideologist of Soviet China. Practised Socialism and opened the wall of china, also created foreign policies, which the closed country had not got. Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) is a political figure, ideologist and successor of Vladimir Lenin in the Soviet Union, in other words dictator of an eastern bloc. Stalin was the leader of Soviet (Socialist) party is well known for his practiced domestic policies in Soviet Russia, such as industrialization and collectivisation, which led into failure and major economy decrease in the Soviet Russia. During the leading years of him, the Soviet party and his rules red army participated in many murders, massive purges and exiles. Benitto Mussolini (1883-1945) a political figure and ideologist practised fascism in Italy during the First World War. A dictator and the leader of that times Italy. Well known for 4 domestic policies also known as battle of grain, battle of land, battle of lira and battle of birth

Nazi Germany

After the treaty of Versailles, Germany was announced as a responsible country for the start of the WW1. That made it pay big reparations, lower the number of the soldiers in the country to 3000, minimalizing military force and equipment. Pour economy, and bad life of German people led Adolf Hitler to become a fhurer of the country, which fallowed into the WW2

Bid for power of Hitler:

Munich Putsch first step into Hitlers bid for power. Considerate as a failure, that prisoned Hitler for 5 years. Mein Kampf a propaganda/ideology book written by Hitler while he was imprisoned. A massive success and a huge step to his bid for power Reichstag fire a fire of a Reichstag (the government house of the Germany) was set on fire by Nazis. A massive success, because they blamed Soviets for the event, which easily led to get rid of them in the country. Another thing Reichstag was moved under the Nazi roof, where they had an opportunity to dictate their rules Cristal night A night known as one of the most massive carnage, during when many of the Soviet and Jews people were killed The night of the long knives- One of the last steps led Hitler to gain the leadership in the Nazi Germany. The night well known as the SA (the secret army) end, and SS (Hitlers army) rise. The SA leader, Ernst where killed for his homosexual views. Ernst was the only competitor for Hitler in gaining the power. Enabled act Enabled elections - The last step in Hitlers bid for power, where Hitler become a full fhurer of the country.

Hitler broke the treaty of Versailles again, by increasing the military force and equipment in their country, which made them into a powerful country, which were fully prepared for another world war.

1939 year Germany invaded Poland, which broke the Ribbentrop and Molotov pact. That raised the tension between to super power countries: Nazi Germany and Soviet Union. That rise into the Second World War

Holocaust - The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime. According to the ideology of Hitler, which was written in his published ideological/propaganda book Mein Kampf just Germans and other Arians, in other words just light, people having European features are racially superior. While Jews and other minorities as gipsies where inferior and not worth to survive or be existing at all.
Anti-semitism Is the ideological views against Semitic people, in other words the race of Jews. Anit Semitism was participated by Nazis that came to power in 1933. The ideology was based on Hitlers propaganda book Mein Kampf (My struggle), which stated that the race of Jews are responsible for whole the world disasters and need to be vanished. 1939 France and Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. However just Britain, led by Winston Churchill, was not defeated. D-Day 1944 06 06 General Eisenhower, let U.S troops to invade France. The army fought their way through France and Belgium and into Germany while Russian troops fought from the east. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered.

USA and Japan:

Pearl Harbour 1941, the navy base of America in pearl harbour near Honululu was attacked by japanese airforce. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including eight enormous battleships, and almost 200 airplanes. In 2 hours More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded. The day after the assault, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan Battle of Midway the events fallow by Pearl Harbour. Japanese armies rolled over Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and the East Indies. The war in the Pacific was fought on land, at sea, and in the air. The turning point in the war in the Pacific came in June, 1942 at the Battle of Midway. United States destroyed hundreds of aircrafts and giant aircraft carries, after the 4 days battle. Japanese continued that fight even after the end of the war in Europe. Hiroshima and Nagasaki- After battle of Midway, japan was still fighting. To end the war, and show the power of the U.S. Truman decided to bombard Japan. The Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, killing about 78,000 people and injuring 100,000 more. On August 9, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, killing another 40,000 people. That also known as the end of the World War, which fallowed into the Cold War.

Soviet Russia
After the death of dictator of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, after the competition with Trotsky, Joseph Stalin became a leader of the eastern bloc. His rude and brutal character, as well as wrongly interpreted views of Marxism and Socialism led into a terrible and brutal regime in the eastern block countries. Stalingrad 1941 event, where about 2 and a half million Russian troops were killed within the month. However because of the cold winter and hard conditions for German troops to adopt and bad preparation for the cold winter, caused the death of another 2 million troops, this time from the German army. After 9 mines of the battle between two super powers, German sixth army was destroyed. That was beginning of the end of the Nazis army.