History is about everyone’s history and we need to learn about everyone’s perspective. It’s like seeing something from a tree, you can see more from one point of view. But a tree’s view is different than a bird’s view in many ways. That is why it is important to learn about the many points of views.
I’m guessing you’ve learned of World War 2 in school. When Japan colonized Indonesia, we fought back to achieve our Independence. And Russia helped because Russia is cool and all. But actually there is a cause and effect for everything. Did Japan attack Pearl Harbor for no reason at all? Did Japan colonize Indonesia because they wanted to? Did Russia help Indonesia because they had nothing better to do? In this article I will try to discuss everything about the war in a short amount of time, starting now.
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The war first began when Germany invaded Poland. No one wanted war to start and to continue what World War 1 left. But Germany wanted to expand its territory further, thinking that no one would get in the way. Unfortunately things did get a little crazy. Before Germany invaded Poland they made a deal with Russia that they wouldn’t fight against each other if they split Poland for the both of them after conquering it.
Great Britain and France thought that they couldn’t just stand there and do nothing while Poland was being attacked. So Britain and France declared war on Germany. Even though war broke out, Germany still wanted to expand, thus they invaded Finland and Norway.
And after that, Germany still expanded into west Europe by invading France, Netherlands and Belgium. They were unstoppable as they conquered so much land! The reason for their success was because they used the tactic known as blitzkrieg or ‘lightning war’. The way the tactic works is that the Germans used tanks called Panzers and rushed through the enemy with fast speeds. They also had the help of air support from above. This helped the Germans in the early war dramatically.
Italy joined in on the war on the Germans side, also known as the Axis. What the Italians really wanted was land in return of helping the Germans. The Germans looked as if they were going to win so Italy joined in on the bigger side while trying not to pick the wrong side. Unfortunately they did pick the wrong side. And I didn't talk about Spain yet. Spain, the winner of the 2010 World cup and The Euro Cup in soccer. The Spanish are also good at war, but they were having their own civil war so they couldn’t join in on the fun, but they aided Germany by sending troops instead.
Now I'm going to give you a good look of both sides
The big players in the Allies team consisted in:
-Great Britain
-France
-China etc
And the Axis team consisted in:
-Germany
-Russia
-Italy
-Japan etc
There were many countries that played in World War 2 (that is why its called world war) but I just put the important ones above.
I’m sure you’ve heard of the Holocaust and concentration camps. For someone to die in a place like that would probably be the worst death. In the camps you would either get killed by the poisonous gas, slaughtered, worked or starve to death. Jewish people were brought to concentration camps because Adolf Hitler hated the Jewish. Fortunately there were some survivors rescued by the Allies.
As I said before there is a cause and effect for everything, there is also a reason why Adolf Hitler hated Jews. The reason he did dated back to World War 1. Hitler looked up to Germany and when they lost in World War 1 he was frustrated. After the loss of Germany, there was a rumor that the Jewish betrayed the Germans thus causing them to lose. And even though it wasn’t technically true, the hatred for Jews grew in the brain of Adolf Hitler and that is why. If the rumor never gotten to his ear many lives could've been saved. Hitler could've also been a good guy, we just don't really know.
Germany's reign couldn’t go on forever and this is where the expanding of Germany halted. I’ll have to stop here because this is getting kind of long, but don’t stop reading here. Make sure you read the second part when I publish it.
Thanks for reading!
