Informative Speech

             In this chapter it discusses the most destructive war of all time, World War II. It was the war of all the world part two. Although the casualties were as much as the first war there was more destruction and many new inventions were started from the war.
             From the start of the war the Americans weren't at all prepared. Ending immigration was the beginning of what to come. Americans were so scared of their Japanese counterparts, that they put all the Japanese-Americans into war camps afraid of any war crimes committed inside the country. The Americans went through mass production of ammunition than ever before. There was an avalanche of weaponry that was produced by American factories; it included 40 billion bullets; 300,000 aircrafts; 76,000 ships; 86,000 tanks; and 2.6 million machine guns.
             At the beginning of the war the Axis Powers were taking control of the world. Japan was taken over the Philippines when they defeated General Douglas McArthur's army. Then the Japanese fleet took over New Guinea and the Soloman Islands by defeating the American fleets. Next, the Japanese were looking to take over the island of Midway, which is located 1,000 miles northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii. This was a strategic threat by the Japanese on the Americans so they can pick apart the already disabled Pearl Harbor and work their way onto the mainland, which spelled trouble for the Americans. Under the lead of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, the Americans went on to try to stop this from happening. The fighting was all done by aircraft; the Japanese broke off action losing four important carriers.
             There was another end of the world that was still fighting in the same war. The Germans and the Italians occupied most of Europe and a lot of Northern Africa. The German U-boats (also know as submarines) were the latest invention in this war. They were taking out many ships in the North Atlantic, Caribbean an
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