Fun Facts•World war II started on September the 1st 1939 in Europe .•World war II ended on September the 2nd 1945.•Adolf Hitler was the Nazis leader or Fuhrer as he called himself , Fuhrer means leader.• Irelands President during World war II was Eamon De Velera.
Adolf Hitler• Adolf Hitler was the Nazis leader
or Fuhrer during World War II.• Adolf Hitler's first name was Adolf
but everybody calls him Hitler.• Adolf Hitler wanted to start World
War II because of Germanys surrender during World War I.
The Swastika • The Swastika was the Nazis
symbol.• Hitler chose the symbol.• The Nazis are very passionate
about the Swastika.• After World war II the Swastika was banned.
Winston Churchill• Winston Churchill was born on
November the 30th 1874.• Winston Churchill died on 24th of January 1965.• Winston Churchill was the English prime minister.
The Allies• The Allies principally Great
Britain, The Soviet Union and the United States.
• The three leaders were Winston Churchill of Great Britain, Franklin D Roosevelt of the USA and Josef Stalin of the Soviet Union.
Adolf Hitler and World war I
• Adolf Hitler fought in World War I and sustained two major injury's.
• The first occurred in October 1916 when he was wounded by a grenade splinter. The other was on October 13, 1918, when a gas attack caused Hitler to go temporarily blind.
Weapons• Here are some weapons used in World
war II.
• The ALFA Modelo 44 (or "ALFA 44") machine gun was an indigenously designed Spanish machine gun appearing during World War 2.
• In 1923, the Yugoslavian authorities contracted the Belgian concern of Fabrique Nationale to develop a semi-automatic pistol
Eamonn De Valera• Eamonn De Valera was Irelands
president during world war II.• Eamonn De Valera kept Ireland
out of world war II.• Eamonn De Valera was on of the
leaders in the failed 1916 Easter uprising.
•He was also president of Sinn Fein from 1917 to 1976.•Eamonn De Valera was born in 1882 in New York.•His Mother was Irish and his Father was Spanish though Eamonn De Valera was born in America.
Bombing in Ireland
• The first bombing of neutral Republic of Ireland during World war II took place on 26 August 1940, when the German Air Force Luftwaffe dropped bombs at Campile, Wexford killing three people. The first bombing of the city of Dublin occurred early on the morning of 2 January 1941 when German bombs were dropped in the Terenure area of south Dublin.
Irelands Reaction• Although the Irish had got
bombed numerous times during World war II they didn't fight back they decided to do the best they could to Ignore it.
• The bombs that were dropped on Ireland were meant to be dropped on England by the Germans.
When the War Ended
• When the war had ended a new scheme was made up to attempt to stop any more devastating wars.• The scheme name was
The Marshall Plan.
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