WORLD WAR II

By DYLAN CRANLEY

COUNTRIES

Axis Powers (signers of the Tripartite Treaty) Germany, Italy and Japan

Co-signers of the Tripartite Treaty Bulgaria, (March 1st, 1941) Hungary, (November 20th,

1940) Romania and (November 23rd, 1940)Slovakia(1) (November 24th, 1940)

Countries that were annexed by, or at war with, Axis Powers before the World War II

Austria, (annexed to Germany, "Anschluss", March 13th, 1938) Ethiopia and(annexed by Italy in

1936, after the Abyssinia crisis, independence restored in 1941) Republic of China (at war with

Japan since 1931)

Allied Powers Australia ,Brazil, Canada, Newfoundland New Zealand, South Africa, Soviet

Union (from June 1941), United Kingdom and United States (from December 1941)

Supporters of the Allies Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican,

Republic Ecuador, Egypt,(2) El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia,

Mexico, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saudi, Arabia Turkey, Uruguay and

Venezuela

HILTER’S LITTLE LIFE

Baptized a Catholic, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was born on April 20, 1889, in

the Upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn, located approximately 65 miles

east of Munich and nearly 30 miles north of Salzburg. His father, Alois Hitler

(1837-1903), was a mid-level customs official. Born out of wedlock to Maria Anna

Schickelgruber in 1837, Alois Schickelgruber changed his name in 1876 to Hitler,

the Christian name of the man who married his mother five years after his birth.

Alois Hitler's illegitimacy would cause speculation as early as the 1920s -- and

still present in popular culture today -- that Hitler's grandfather was Jewish.

Credible evidence to support the notion of Hitler's Jewish descent has never

turned up. The two most likely candidates to have been Hitler's grandfather are

the man who married his grandmother and that man's brother.

THE BEGINNING

On Sep tember 1, 1939, just before Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland that

marked t he beginning of World War II, Zygmunt Klukowski, a young Polish

doctor, confided in his diary that everyone was talking about war. "Everybody,"

he continued, "is sure that we will win." The reality was startlingly different.

Nazi Germany's war with Poland, begun on September 1, was an uneven

contest. Five German armies with 1.5 million men, 2,000 tanks, and 1,900

modern aircraftfaced fewer than a million Polish troops with less than 500

aircraft and a small number of armored vehicles. In addition, German planning

and technical support -- and German understanding of the importance of

modern tactical airpower -- gave the aggressor great advantages.

NAZI

Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German

Workers' Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany

through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945. Founded in 1919 as the German

Workers' Party, the group promoted German pride and anti-Semitism, and expressed

dissatisfaction with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace settlement

that ended World War I (1914-1918) and required Germany to make numerous

concessions and reparations. Hitler joined the party the year it was founded and

became its leader in 1921. In 1933, he became chancellor of Germany and his Nazi

government soon assumed dictatorial powers. After Germany's defeat in World War II

(1939-45), the Nazi Party was outlawed and many of its top officials were convicted of

war crimes related to the murder of some 6 million European Jews during the Nazis'

reign.

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PEOPLE DEAD

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THE ENDING OF THE WAR

World War 2 finally came to an end on the 8th of May 1945, when Adolf Hitler had committed

suicide. News quickly spread about the death of Adolf Hitler and the guns fell silent. Winston

Churchill the then prime minister announced Victory in Europe.

Today we celebrate VE Day which symbolises the Victory in Europe celebrating the end of the World

War 2 on 8th May 1945. Street parties were held in every street throughout the whole of the United

Kingdom and to finally welcome home the brave men and women.

Even though the World War 2 was officially declared over in Europe and other western countries in

the Far East, countries such as Japan carried on with the blood shed, and killing thousands of people.

Japan, did not give up so easily and the fact that Germany had surrendered did not deter Japan in

anyway.

Japan had two Atomic bombs dropped on the country, Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th of

August 1945. The Atomic bomb was a turning point in World War 2, just when everyone had thought

things couldn’t get any worse, a single bomb could do more damage and kill more people than a

thousand bombs could achieve.