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 * We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.** //General Douglas MacArthur//

Decade: 1930 - 1940

World War 2 1939-1945

Intro

It all started when Germany unannouncedly striked Poland, September 1, 1939. Within a week after September 3, France, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Cananda, and South Africa had joined the war and soon the world lunged into another bloody ar of World War 2. (ww2tm.net)The war was lead by Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito Emperor of Japan.(LDWW2)

Hitler's ambition was simple, more land for Germany. On March 13, 1938, Germany took over Austria, something that was specifically prohibited in the Versailles Treaty. Later at the Munich Conference on September 28-29, 1938, France, and Great Britain gave Germany a large section of Czechoslovakia. By March of 1939 Hitler took the rest of Czechoslovakia. He did this not only using the harsh limitations set against Germany by the Versailles Treaty as a pretext for the Germans right to acquire land where German spe a king people lived, but because the French and British were trying to avoid another bloody war by appeasing Hitler. (RosenBurg)

Hitler's excuse for attacking Poland was executed on the night of August 31, 1939, it was called Operation Himmler. The Nazis took an unknown prisoner from one of their concentration camps to Gleiwitz (on the border of Poland and Germany), and while he was dressed in a Polish uniform shot him, making Poland look like the aggressor(Which it wasn't). Hitler was confident that the French and the British wouldn't attack while he took ove r Poland, that left the Soviet Union to deal with, to avoid an attack from the Russians, Hitler and t he Soviet Union made a pact known as the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact. This meant, basically, that in the event that if Germany got into a conflict with anyone, ally to the Soviets or not, the Soviets wouldn't interfere. On September 1, 1939, Britain and France sent Germany word that if they did not withdraw from Polish land they would go to war against Germany, On September 3, 1939, German forces went deeper into Polish territory, the French and British Declare war, World War II had begun. (Rosenburg)

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