It also stated that Germany would pay for damages caused by the war, and could only have a small army with no air force, submarines, or tanks. Adolf Hitler was able to convince the German people to give him the power to improve conditions in Germany and restore the country’s strength ...
America officially only enter World War 2 two years into the war on December 8, 1941, when all but one member of Congress passed the motion one day after theattack on Pearl Harborin Hawaii. Although America formally maintained neutrality up until that moment, the U.S. has long been involve...
France was quickly knocked out of the war and became divided betwen the collaborationist Vichy regime occupying the continent and the so-called "Free French" in exile in England and North Africa. The conflict was the deadliest in human history with estimated deaths ranging from 50 million to ...
World War II proved to be the deadliest international conflict in history, taking the lives of 60 to 80 million people, including 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis duringthe Holocaust. Civilians made up an estimated 50-55 million deaths from the war, while military comprised...
World War II was the mightiest struggle humankind has ever seen. It killed more people, cost more money, damaged more property, affected more people, and caused more far-reaching changes in nearly every country than any other war in history. The number of people killed, wounded, or missing ...
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of the 20th century and have since been used for munitions storage (during World War I, to cater for overflow from the Woolwich Arsenal), mushroom growing, and, during World War II provided accommodations for some 15,000 people as one of the largest deep air-raid shelters in the country....
The Dutch government initially pursued a campaign to annex German territory to effectively double the size the country, but ultimately it would only gain two small villages. In the few years after the war, most German passport holders in the Netherlands were deported back to Germany....
a drastic change from World War I when some 90% of deaths were occasioned at the fronts. Moreover, the invention of the atom bomb during the war and its deployment by the USA at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (6 and 9 August 1945) suggested that, in any future nuclear conflict, civilians would...