WW2 was one of the greatest struggles humanity has ever seen. Over 50 countries participated in the war and the entire world felt its effects. There were battles on almost every continent and many major bodies of water. Countless major cities were destroyed in the viscous thirst for more territory. While it is impossible to know the exact number of deaths it is estimated that around 55 million people died as a result of WW2 (History.com‚ n.d.). World War 2 was a war like nobody had ever seen‚ this
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Power”). Some of these promises were held to be true‚ just not in the form most people believed they would be. Through clever propaganda‚ the idea of fear‚ and messing with the emotions of people‚ Hitler and the Nazis were able to gain power and cause mass destruction all over the world. The world never has been and never will be the same after the millions of lives lost‚ and the horror that people had to experience first hand during the second World War. Unfortunately if it wasn’t for World War
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The Treaty of Versailles was the primary treaty that ended the Great War in 1919. It is arguably one of the worst treaties in world history. It solved none of the problems in Europe that lead to World War I and it was one of the leading causes for World War II. The Treaty of Versailles punished the losers of World War I; instead of working together to resolve the issues that caused World War I‚ it created more hostility between countries in Europe. Germany and Austria-Hungary were the countries
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It is partially agreed upon that Hitler’s aggressive actions caused the outbreak of World War Two. The collapse of the New York stock exchange left Germany in a state of depression‚ with large quantities of people left unemployed and unable to support themselves with the conditions they were left in. Hitler’s rise to power was a result of the huge amount of support he received after promoting extreme ideas to lead Germany out of the Great Depression. The more support he obtained‚ the more power he
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World War 1 and World War 2 were two devastating wars that took place in the early to mid 20th century. World War one being the battle between the Allied and Central Powers‚ and World war two being the battle between the Allied and Axis Powers. The spark that ignited World War One being the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The spark for World War Two being Germany’s assault on Poland. Thousands of young men were killed in the trenches and battlefields of these two conflicts and the world
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World War II was one of the bloodiest and the most devastating events in history. It destroyed the lives of more than 60 million people‚ which was approximately 3% of the world’s population at the time. The Holocaust also left 11 million casualties from concentration camps all over Europe. Adolf Hitler‚ the German chancellor and the leader of the Nazi party‚ started the war in 1939. He was an ambitious man‚ who wanted to “make Germany great again” as it had to go through humiliation after losing
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“Viewing Germany as the chief instigator of the conflict‚ the European Allied Powers decided to impose particularly stringent treaty obligations upon the defeated Germany.” ("Treaty of Versailles‚ 1919." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum‚ n.d. Web. 18 Jan. 2017). This treaty is known as the Treaty of Versailles and was a huge contributor to World War II. After World War I ended‚ there was a need for peace and that was what they intended with the Treaty
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It was the day of The Wannsee Conference of Berlin at that time the year was 1942 January the 20. It was the fifteen high ranking Nazi party and German government leaders gathering for a meeting . Over 11‚000‚000 Jews in Europe in the would have fallen under the provisions of the ¨ Final Solution¨. At that time of The Wannsee Conference most participants were already aware that the National Socialist regime had engaged in mass murder of Jews and other civilians in the German - occupied areas of
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When World War I finished‚ the European countries of the allied forces tried to only punish Germany. Their determination to hurt Germany succeeded and this success was called the treaty of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles lowered it’s army to a very small numbere‚ decreased the size of the German Empire and forced the Empire to pay a huge unreasonable amount of money in reparations for damages from the war. Basically the treaty of Versailles was meant to completely destroy Germany and left it
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Cheyanne Sitch Pod Cast 3 Part B World War One had broken out in Europe. The United States at this time was neutral even though we were sending 1‚000 horses daily to Europe. The Germans did not like this at all. During this time‚ in the United States there was a German newspaper that sold 75‚000 newspapers a day. At this time‚ there was 8 million Germans in the US which equaled 1/10 of the population. Most of them where first generation immigrants. The war in Europe caused several problems. The
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