Rylie Halliday Ms. Bertrand US History 7 March 2024 WWll: WWll was the biggest and deadliest war in US history, it began in 1939 and ended in 1945. World War II involved more than 30 countries and dragged on for 6 years until the Allies defeated the access powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy. The war became a global conflict when the German military led by Adolf Hitler invaded Poland because he wanted to take their land for Germany. The three categories I am going to talk about today are the war in Europe, the Pacific War, and the homefront. I will cover important details and events that happened during these topics in WWII. The war in Europe started off with the invasion of Poland. It was an attack on the republic by Nazi Germany, the
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It was a German strategy used to avoid a long war in the first phase. Then in 1941 on June 22 Operation Barbarossa was an invasion of the Soviet Union by many access allies and Nazi Germany. It was the largest land offense and had 10 million combatants taking part in it. This operation was put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goals of eradicating communism, and conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans. It then moves onto the Battle of Bulge Dec 16,1944, it started off with Hitlers last stand. Hiyler's goal during this was to split British and American forces and distribute their supply lines. On December 16, 1944, Germans broke through the weak US line. It was 85 miles long and stretched 50 miles into the allied territory. On January 28, 1945, almost a year later, allied forces restored the lines back to their original positions before the battle. Hitler then never made an offensive action again. On Feb. 4, 1945, the Yalta conference happened, this was when the big three people FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met up to discuss the post-war …show more content…
This did not change the fact and 12/22 Nazis with others were sentenced to death. The war in the Pacific, Some of the causes of WW2 to start were the Japanese invasion of China, the Great Depression, and the invasion of Poland. To start this paragraph is Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor was when Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to kill and destroy the US Pacific fleet. It was the site of the aerial attack on the US by Japan before the attack. Americans were reluctant to become involved in the war in Europe, but that all changed when the US declared war on Japan. Japan did this out of political self-interest, scarcity of economic resources and economic costs, and it would precipitate the entry of the US. The Bataan death march was in April 1942. The Philippines fell to the Japanese in December, which then let the Japanese take American and Filipino prisoners. They then forced 75,000 to march 55 miles to the Japanese peninsula to then be transferred inland by April. 7,000 American and Filipino prisoners were killed during the march. Next the Doolittle Raid was on April 18, 1942, it was when U.S. force fliers came in and bombed
It was a German strategy used to avoid a long war in the first phase. Then in 1941 on June 22 Operation Barbarossa was an invasion of the Soviet Union by many access allies and Nazi Germany. It was the largest land offense and had 10 million combatants taking part in it. This operation was put into action Nazi Germany's ideological goals of eradicating communism, and conquering the western Soviet Union to repopulate it with Germans. It then moves onto the Battle of Bulge Dec 16,1944, it started off with Hitlers last stand. Hiyler's goal during this was to split British and American forces and distribute their supply lines. On December 16, 1944, Germans broke through the weak US line. It was 85 miles long and stretched 50 miles into the allied territory. On January 28, 1945, almost a year later, allied forces restored the lines back to their original positions before the battle. Hitler then never made an offensive action again. On Feb. 4, 1945, the Yalta conference happened, this was when the big three people FDR, Churchill, and Stalin met up to discuss the post-war …show more content…
This did not change the fact and 12/22 Nazis with others were sentenced to death. The war in the Pacific, Some of the causes of WW2 to start were the Japanese invasion of China, the Great Depression, and the invasion of Poland. To start this paragraph is Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor was when Japan staged a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to kill and destroy the US Pacific fleet. It was the site of the aerial attack on the US by Japan before the attack. Americans were reluctant to become involved in the war in Europe, but that all changed when the US declared war on Japan. Japan did this out of political self-interest, scarcity of economic resources and economic costs, and it would precipitate the entry of the US. The Bataan death march was in April 1942. The Philippines fell to the Japanese in December, which then let the Japanese take American and Filipino prisoners. They then forced 75,000 to march 55 miles to the Japanese peninsula to then be transferred inland by April. 7,000 American and Filipino prisoners were killed during the march. Next the Doolittle Raid was on April 18, 1942, it was when U.S. force fliers came in and bombed