Axis powers

World War II was a war spanning from 1939-1945 in which the Canadian army fought battles worldwide and contributed greatly to the allied victory in the war. Many Canadians fighting in the war were part of a gruelling Italian campaign. The army first landed on the Italian island of Sicily where they then made their way deeper into Italy, fighting battles in Ortona, Cassino and Rome. Secondly, some soldiers who were part of the Canadian army were sent to Hong Kong to fight the Japanese. The…

World War Two was the largest and the most violent armed conflict that occurred and it was between 1939 and 1945. During the this war, many people were recognized as heros due to their actions in the battlefield. One such example is the the crew in the CV-6 USS Enterprise also known as the Big E. This ship was the seventh ship that was named Enterprise as well was the first of the Enterprise ships that was a aircrafts carrier. The USS Enterprise was very important during during World War II…

military, what his foreign policies were and how he conducted war, and one could extrapolate from this that he used his military, foreign policies and war as a tool to achieve his overall goal. This goal was have to have Nazi Germany become a super power within Europe, and essentially redeem themselves for the shame they faced post World War I due to the Treaty of Versailles amongst other things, and Operation Barbarossa is another way reaching his…

a) I hypothesize that the Battle of the Atlantic would become the longest and one of the most important campaigns of the Second World War, as a cause of the restricted land the allies had since much of it had been taken over by the axis, and the support they would receive from North America had been vital. Also, the campaign would have been the longest since many convoys carrying essential supplies including munition, food, and resources had been dispatched from that region in order to supply…

At the time, World War I was the deadliest and most destructive war the world ever experienced. Within the span of four years, more than 25 countries involved themselves in the war (“World War I”). All the soldier and civilians involved with the war experienced a great deal of trauma. Each individual deals with traumatic experiences differently; however, the war left a negative impact emotionally on a portion of those involved. They did not know it at the time, but these people suffered from a…

Atonement is a novel written by Ian McEwan and first published in 2001. Atonement might be considered an historical novel since most part of the book is set in England and in France before, during and after World War II, but it is most often considered a metafiction novel. Many events of Atonement are related to events that really happened during World War II: fought between 1939 and 1945, the Second World War has been certainly the most terrible war to be fought in history and the number of…

an allied operation of the invasion of North Africa, consisted of the France territories , mainly Algiers and Morocco. Historians had argued that Operation Torch and Patton’s role in it as one of the reason why the allies were able to push back the Axis out of Africa, mainly due to the fact of the importance of the operation itself. Operation Torch marks the first campaign in which there exists an Anglo-American cooperation; Winston Churchill himself had convinced Roosevelt to put the operation…

respective countries through their leadership and heavy influence. Hitler’s and Mussolini’s rise to power can be compared and analyzed by showing their influences of power that affected their economical, political, social changes on society. Hitler and Mussolini came into power to establish single party states while Germany and Italy were under severe tension and depression. Hitler acquired power in Germany from 1933 to 1945 as compared to Mussolini who ruled for 21 years starting in 1922…

were the strongest forces that gave rise to the rapid growth of supporters. The story of development and decay of the ideologies show high similarities as well which means that the regimes were not capable of defeating the socialistic and democratic powers of the…

North Africa. For the follow-on operation, the Americans favored a cross-channel invasion of Europe, but the British favored a peripheral approach to wear down the Axis. Ultimately, the decision to invade Sicily was the uneasy compromise reached at the Casablanca conference with the strategic goal of freeing Mediterranean shipping from Axis harassment, diverting German strength from the Russian Front and pressuring Italy to sue for peace. Senior leader’s inattention to planning to meet those…