World War 2

HOW DID WORLD WAR 2 START?
On April 1, 1939 Nazi Germany declared war on Poland. Soon afterwards France and Great Britain declared war on Nazi Germany.

WHY DID NAZI GERMANY DECLARE WAR ON POLAND?
Actually Nazi Germany wanted to take over new places and therefore attacked Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 and the Allies stand by that. During the Hitler period , which was 1933-1945 , Nazi Germany developed the military industry and became the largest military force in the world again. Hitler was a strong German nationalist and wanted to conquer the whole world.

AXIS POWERS
Nazi Germany, Italy and the Japan Empire. They had the same ideology, the same goals and the same enemies (Allies Powers).

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER NAZI GERMANY ATTACKED POLAND?
At the time Germany attacked Poland the Soviet Union attacked Poland, too. And the Allies declared war on Germany. In 9 april, 1940 Germany declared war on Denmark and conquered Denmark in only 2 hours. After that Germany attacked Norway and The Allies send help to Norway but still Germany was able to conquer Norway on 10 June, 1940. Nazi Germany started to attack France on 10 May, 1940 and conquered France on 25 June, 1940. Germany attacked France through Belgium as in WW1 and they took over a strategic place in Africa.

OPERATION BARBAROSSA
Nazi Germany declared war on the Soviet Union on 22 June, 1941 and conquered Crimea, Minsk, Tallinn, Riga, Kiev and a lot of strategical places in the Soviet Union. But when winter came Germany stopped because of the ammo and food shortage . After winter Nazi Germany decided to attack Stalingrad (Centre Caucasus which has lots of oil) but the Soviets defended the city and they defeated Nazi Germany. Germany didn’t have enough ammo tank solider and planes and the Soviet Union defeated Germany in 1944.

PEARL HARBOR ATTACK
On 8 december, 1941 the Japan Empire attacked Pearl Harbor in the Pacific and the United States joined the war and Germany had a new enemy like at the end of the WW1.

NORMANDY LANDINGS
The Soviet Union began to defeat Nazi Germany and the USA and the UK decided to attack the German mainland, and they attacked Normandy on 6 june, 1944. The Germans weren’t ready to fight in the West and after taking over Paris in 25 August, 1944 they conquered entire France quickly.

HOW WORLD WAR 2 ENDED
Germany defeated all fronts and in 9 May, 1945 the war ended after 6 years. In 6 years 80 million people had died in the war and most of them were civilians. In the war the United States and some other countries used new technology ( For example Atomic Bomb).

RESULT OF WORLD WAR 2
The world had been changed forever and millions of people had died. Europe’s borders changed and the United States and Soviet Union became super powers of the world.