World War II
World War II was the biggest war ever fought. Nearly 30 million people were killed in it. About half were civilians while the other half were soldiers, sailors, and airmen. The war was fought all over the world, but the most important battles took place on the Islands in the Pacific and in Europe. The two sides were called the Axis and the Allies. The war lasted from 1939 to 1945; the chief countries of the Allies were the United States, Great Britain, Russia, France, and China. The Axis countries were Germany, Italy, and Japan. In March, 1938, Germany took over Austria by force. A few months later Adolf Hitler said he wanted to take part of Czechoslovakia. Hitler and Benito Mussolini met the head of the governments of Great Britain and France in Munich, Germany to talk it over, and Hitler was allowed to annex that part of Czechoslovakia. In 1939 Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia, and threatened war against Poland, while Mussolini conquered Albania. In August, 1939 Hitler made an alliance with Russia, and an agreement to partition Poland. On September first, 1939 the German army attacked Poland from the west, and that was the start of World War II in the European Theater. Two days later Great Britain and France de
The Russians were winning back territories previously lost. Things were changing in the Pacific scenarios as well. The Allies strategy had worked on both fronts. The Germans launched them across the English Channel at London and other English cities. Three days later Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. In the Pacific cutting off supplies and building bases for attacks on Japan. As in the Pacific the Allies were working their way towards Japan a similar strategy in Europe was successful as well. Then they invented the V-2, which was a rocket that flew faster than the speed of sound. The Allies had their first victory known as the Battle of Britain. The next day Russia declared war on Japan. The Germans were finally getting a taste of there own medicine. In 1940 the situation looked very bad for democracy. Back on the European Front by December 1944 the Allied armies were on the boarders of Germany. As for Europe, well the Germans held out in Italy through the winter then collapsed.
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