World War II: Changing the World's Perspective

World War II has been the greatest war in human history, as such event was so important several things occurred and appeared through this period: millions of deaths, “the final solution” proposed by Adolf Hitler who was leading Germany, he started the war by his decisions supported by Japan principally but also by Italy. Technology was something that also evolved with tanks and new kinds of weapons the most devastating of all the nuclear bomb, the raise of two new countries with the power at the end of it: United States and Soviet Union. This event was so important that changed the world’s perspective of everything, but the present essay will explain how Germany and Japan were similar by several reasons but at the same time so different and how some decisions by important people changed everything in this war.
The respective roles of Germany and Japan in the initiation and escalation of World War II seem similar on the surface, a combination of economic ambition and racist ideology. However, the countries’ root motivations and the ways in which they were expressed were fundamentally different.
Both Germany and Japan engaged in large-scale territorial conquests in the years leading up to World War II. Hitler and other Nazi officials in Germany advocated the concept of lebensraum, the natural “living space” required by what they considered the racially superior German people. Under this doctrine, Hitler claimed openly that German territory needed to be expanded through conquest of surrounding nations. Though some of Japan’s leaders held similar beliefs in the racial superiority of the Japanese people, they also had concrete motivations for territorial expansion: Japan’s population was growing too large for the confines of the Japanese islands, and colonial holdings in Asia were arguably becoming necessary to feed and clothe the Japanese people.
Also, Japan’s economic problems were far more severe than Germany’s. Although the German people were indeed humiliated