Inquiry project-WW2
I recently changed my inquiry project topic from drugs effect on the brain to WW2. For my first blog post I am going to summarize World War two and the book I just finished, Front Lines by Michael Grant. WW2 was a war from 1939 to 1945 that involved over 30 countries, 100 million people and all of the great powers which would turn into 2 sides the Axis and the Allied. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust in which approximately 11 million people were killed the bombing of industrial and population centres in which approximately one million people were killed and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki an estimated 50 million to 85 million total people were killed. Making World War II the most …show more content…
From 1939 to 1941, Germany ccptured or gained control of much of Europe, and formed the Axis power with Italy and Japan. The war continued mainly between the Axis powers and the United Kingdom, with the North and East Africa campaigns In June 1941, the European Axis powers invasion of the Soviet Union, In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean in an attack we know as Pearl Harbor and quickly conquered most of the Pacific.
The Axis advance stopped in 1942 when Japan lost the Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, and Germany was defeated in North Africa and then the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy which brought the Italians to surrender, and Allied victories in the Pacific,due to this the Axis lost initiative and retreated. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major losses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies destroyed the Japanese Navy and captured the very important Western Pacific
I recently changed my inquiry project topic from drugs effect on the brain to WW2. For my first blog post I am going to summarize World War two and the book I just finished, Front Lines by Michael Grant. WW2 was a war from 1939 to 1945 that involved over 30 countries, 100 million people and all of the great powers which would turn into 2 sides the Axis and the Allied. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust in which approximately 11 million people were killed the bombing of industrial and population centres in which approximately one million people were killed and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki an estimated 50 million to 85 million total people were killed. Making World War II the most …show more content…
From 1939 to 1941, Germany ccptured or gained control of much of Europe, and formed the Axis power with Italy and Japan. The war continued mainly between the Axis powers and the United Kingdom, with the North and East Africa campaigns In June 1941, the European Axis powers invasion of the Soviet Union, In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean in an attack we know as Pearl Harbor and quickly conquered most of the Pacific.
The Axis advance stopped in 1942 when Japan lost the Battle of Midway, near Hawaii, and Germany was defeated in North Africa and then the Allied invasion of Sicily and Italy which brought the Italians to surrender, and Allied victories in the Pacific,due to this the Axis lost initiative and retreated. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded German-occupied France. During 1944 and 1945 the Japanese suffered major losses in mainland Asia in South Central China and Burma, while the Allies destroyed the Japanese Navy and captured the very important Western Pacific