July 28‚ 1914‚ the first World War officially began when Austria- Hungary declared war on Serbia. This event led to a chain of events that compelled countries from every continent except Antarctica to join the war. After four years‚ the war ended with a victory for the Allied powers‚ however the war took a toll on all participants‚ killing 9‚000‚000 people. The most significant causes for World War I were alliances‚ nationalism‚ and imperialism. While researching World War I‚ it is clear that alliances
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Nazi Organization As the onset of World War II approached‚ Adolf Hitler’s secret police began to systematically arrest enemies of the regime. As the regime evolved‚ so did its desire to control incarcerated political enemies. The concentration camps meticulously kept records of its prisoners: Ethnicity‚ who they were‚ why they were imprisoned‚ and other facts and figures. As the regime turned towards mass killings as its solution to the “Jewish Question”‚ Nazi’s began the systematic killing of
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in the attack‚ and another 1‚000 were wounded. The day after the assault‚ President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan; Congress approved his declaration with just one vote. Three days later‚ Japan’s allies Germany and Italy also declared war on the United States‚. More than two years into the conflict‚ America had finally joined World War II. The fundamental Allied forces were Great Britain‚ The United
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After the First World War‚ many collective security plans and appeasement policies were established by European nations- the League of Nations‚ the Stressa Front‚ etc… to ensure safety for the old powers‚ such as France or Britain‚ who felt insecure witnessing the rise in power of Germany‚ Italy‚ and Russia; however‚ the outbreak of World War II proved the weaknesses of the collective security‚ which were the most prominent cause to the failure of international diplomacy‚ and in addition to Germany’s
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World War II was a horrific war‚ many guns and new strategies and weapons were created‚ for example the nuclear bombs. World War II started when dictators rose to power in some countries‚ for example Adolf Hitler (Germany´s dictator)Germany wasn´t satisfied because they were the only country that was being punished for taking part of World War I and paying for the Treaty of Versailles. Some of the main causes of World War II were when Great Britain and France declared war on Germany for invading
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The Holocaust had a tremendous role in World War II. It was a mass murder of six million Jews‚ Gypsies‚ and homosexuals. However‚ the main people who were captured‚ persecuted‚ or turned into workers were the Jews. Adolf Hitler‚ the third reich at the time‚ thought that the Jews were a subordinate race and a threat to Germany’s racial community. Hitler believed that the other races didn’t harmonize with the Germans. The Holocaust began in 1933‚ the idea of the persecution of the Jews happened well
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World War II started in September of 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. By entering this war‚ the United States had a lot of things at stake by entering WWII including the amount of money and the number of humans that will die in the war. The United States was already experiencing the Great Depression as WWII was beginning. Another thing that was at stake for the US was allowing for their allies‚ such as England‚ to fall to Nazi Germany. Although‚ the US did the right thing by not going into the
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WW II Torture tactics Some of the World war II torture tactics may have been the cruelest of all time. Stories from prisoners of war are horrifying‚ an example of one by Ian Cobain is‚ The German SS officer was fighting to save himself from the gallows for a terrible war crime and might say anything to escape the noose. But Fritz Knöchlein was not lying in 1946 when he claimed that‚ in captivity in London‚ he had been tortured by British soldiers to force a confession out of him Torturing them in
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Introduction Two pieces of technology that stand out in the history of World War II are Radar and Bombsights. Both technologies played a crucial role in the defensive and offensive strategies of all the countries involved. During World War II RADAR saw its first use in combat operations. Although radar came of age during the war (Goebel) it is often referred to as the weapon that won the war and the invention that changed the world. Radar was a technology that allowed land bases to detect incoming
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There were all kinds of technological advancements during World War I like flamethrowers‚ tanks‚ poison gas‚ machine guns‚ warplanes‚ sanitary napkins‚ Tracer bullets‚ depth chargers‚ Hydrophones‚ aircraft carriers‚ pilotless drones‚ mobile x-ray machines and plenty more advances. These advancements made the war a lot worse than it could have been especially mustard gas. The advancements were also great for the war because if the United States did not have some of these weapons then nazi Germany
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