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World War II
On August 19, 1942, the Allies attempted an assault on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in France as part of WWII. The event is thought of as one of the most overwhelming failures on the part of...
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World War II
The Allied Powers during World War II (1939–1945) were Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Those three nations held a number of conferences during the conflict to coordinate...
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Australia was geographically close to Japan and its territories. Japan occupied what are today Indonesia and the Philippines. Both are located to the north of Australia. This proximity made...
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Arguably there are no "good wars." But World War II is seen in this light because of the clear menace represented by the Nazis and axis powers. Hitler was genuinely bent on world domination and the...
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The common factor that led to aggression by these three countries was unhappiness with the status quo. All three countries felt that they were being treated badly in the years after World War I...
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Before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, there was serious debate as to whether or not the United States should take an active role in the conflicts in Europe and Asia. Many Americans were not...
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None of the epic battles of World War II happened on American soil. (Hawaii, which is where the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor took place, was not yet an American state). This meant that the...
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"The Good War" is an expression most popularly used in the United States. The term emerged soon after the end of the war and has been the subject of academic and popular debate. Studs Terkel’s...
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World War II (1939–1945) was extremely destructive for the nations of Europe. The conflict had started in Poland and ended with German surrender in Berlin six years later. Almost all of...
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The Nazi party began as a semi-reactionary party specifically responding to the "stabbed in the back" myth, which stated that Germany was winning World War I until the Social Democrats betrayed the...
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To a large extent, World War II arose out of various consequences of the post-World War I settlement. The Versailles Agreement, which imposed harsh penalties on Germany for starting the War, caused...
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When Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933, the Nazis were still a minority party in the coalition government they'd formed with conservatives. Conservative members of the cabinet foolishly...
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1929 was the year of the Wall Street Crash, which led to the worst worldwide economic depression in history. Germany was especially hard hit as its economy was built almost entirely on foreign...
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Kristallnacht, or the Night of the Broken Glass, took place on November 10, 1938 in German territory. It was a response of extreme vengeance—one of the hallmarks of Nazism—to the killing of a...
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The end of WWII shaped the postwar world by laying the foundations for the Cold War. At the end of WWII, the Allies essentially split the world between them. In Asia, the USSR was allowed to keep...
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The Treaty of Versailles helped contribute to the start of World War II. The Treaty of Versailles was very harsh on the Central Powers, and especially on Germany. Germany was required to pay $33...
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Some of the short-term effects of World War II are the end of imperial aggression, the end of the Great Depression in the United States, and the division of Germany into four parts. Italy and...
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There were several causes of World War II. Some of them were underlying causes while others were immediate causes. One underlying cause was the anger that was created by the Versailles Treaty....
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The Potsdam Conference had a few different results. One result of the conference was that the Allies agreed on what would happen to Germany. They agreed to divide Germany up into four parts, with...
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The primary events which led to the outbreak of World War II in Europe were German aggressive expansionary policies in Eastern Europe, primarily the invasion of Poland, which triggered the...
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The Battle of Okinawa took place between April 1 and June 22, 1945. What was meant to be the Allies' final push toward the Japanese mainland quickly devolved into disaster for combatants on both...
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This is really a two-part question. Regarding “freedom” during World War II, many Americans were technically not really “free.” Racial discrimination was widespread in many parts of America...
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In general, the Nazis wanted to kill all Jews, but they were not able to. Many Jews lived in places outside of the reach of the Nazis like Britain, and they were safe. Others who lived in places of...
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The most important thing that we can conclude from World War II is that modern wars are won by industrial capacity. In WWII, the Allies started the war in a very disadvantageous military position....
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The D-Day assault on the French beaches of Normandy was "the largest amphibious invasion of all time," and the successful attacks against the undermanned German forces eventually led to the Axis...
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Numerous factors contributed to the support of the German people for Adolf Hitler during World War II. In assessing the causes for this support, it's important to look back to the rise of Adolf...
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This incident did not really have much of an impact, if any, on the actual outcome of World War II. And it did not have much of an impact on how the war was fought. The only real importance of...
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In late 1924, Hitler was released from prison and reestablished the Nazi Party. This version of the party was meant to be less violent and revolutionary. It became part of the political system...
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During World War II, the United States mobilized for a massive war effort. Many men from the agricultural sector were going off to war, meaning it would be difficult to do as much planting and...
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Yes, they certainly did. In early World War II, Nazi Germany was incredibly powerful, taking over much of Europe and terrorizing Great Britain with air raids constantly. Leadership and technology...
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After World War II, there was great concern that without war production fueling jobs, the country would fall back into a depression, raising unemployment to levels everyone dreaded. Eager to have...
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The Japanese were successful because they devoted so much attention and money to their military. Their investments in air and naval technology paid huge dividends against the colonial and local...
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Western Europe faced numerous threats both in the immediate aftermath and in the long term after World War II. One of the most immediate threats it faced was the chaos and lawlessness once the...
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Japan had successes early on because it was not fighting anyone who was particularly well prepared and/or armed. Japan's armed forces were well-trained and had good plans. They were were ready to...
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I agree with the first post. There are actually a kind of people that are referred to as Aryans. However, many of these people are not the sort that Hitler would have called Aryan. In fact, the...
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There were many causes of World War II. The most significant cause was the rise of Nazism in Germany. This itself had causes reaching back to the end of World War I and the Treaty of Versailles,...
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The policy of appeasement was to blame for Hitler's early successes because it allowed him to build power while simultaneously preventing France and Britain from doing the same. Hitler was able to...
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One problem with this is that World War II is not something that can really be affected socially or economically. You could talk about Pearl Harbor's impact on how the war went or you can talk...
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The German invasion of the USSR is seen, in hindsight, as one of Hitler's biggest mistakes. When you see books or shows about mistakes that lost World War II, this one is always included. When...
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It is, perhaps, historically inaccurate to say that the US justified its decision at the time that it was made. At the time, there was almost no controversy over the use of the bomb. Winston...
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Hitler did this by being bold enough to try it. If the French had resisted, the Germans would have had to retreat. But the French did not know this and did nothing to stop the remilitarization....
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I think that one of the most significant elements of the Abyssinia Crisis of the early and mid 1930s was to foster the dismantling of Wilson's Post World War I vision of the world and usher in a...
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At the time that the decision to drop the bomb was actually made, there was very little discussion of the issue. Winston Churchill, for example, said later that it was just assumed that the bomb...
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One change was that the nature of the war dealt a serious (but not fatal) blow to American isolationism as a mainstream political view. American public opinion in the wake of the war was far more...
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Well, I can't write your half page essay for you, but let me give you some talking points to get organized around. Discrimination against the Jews began almost as soon as Hitler came to power in...
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The relationship between Germany and the Soviet Union changed drastically from 1939 to 1941. The relationship started out very well, but this good relationship changed when Germany invaded the...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt effectively ended the Great Depression with American involvement in war production. While the U.S. Congress had passed a series of neutrality acts in the 1930s in an attempt...
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The assault on Ohama Beach on 6 June 1944 is remembered as one of the most intense of the D-Day landings. That morning, the sea conditions pushed the Allied troops to the left so they landed to the...
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There were two major reasons for the success of this Japanese attack. First, the Japanese had done a good job of planning and training for this attack. Second, and perhaps more importantly, the...
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Hitler's foreign policy during this time was successful because none of the Allied powers was willing to fight to stop him. It was also a success because some of the Allies, at least, felt that...