Google is your friend.
2006-07-14 22:18:38
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answer #1
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answered by Jolly1 5
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Sure, in 25 words or less? British Empire, Russia and US fought Germany, Italy and Japan. Good guys won.
In fact, it was a very complex battle, which lasted from 1939 to 1945, and which the US only entered in 1942 after they were attacked by the Japanese, who until that time had stayed out of the fight.
The death toll was horrendously high, many European countries, like France, Belgium, Holland and others were decimated as the Nazi war machine overran them.
But no one can tell you briefly about an event like WW2. You need to put it in a search engine and read about it for yourself, in order to understand even a smidgeon of what it was all about.
2006-07-21 20:24:55
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answer #2
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answered by old lady 7
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Oh God I can only advise you to go to www.wikipedia.com and look there under World War 2. The main info about WW2 are that Germany went to war with the rest of the world. With Hitler and his political partie the NSDAP of course. He conquered Poland and most of the east, the Benelux lands and half of France and while he was doing that he rounded up most of the Jews that lived in those regions which he had conquered and in Germany of course too and brought them to camps where they had to work until they couldn't anymore and then he had them gassed and burned. Well, it ended with the allies (USA,UK,Russia,France,...)winning the whole War and dividing Germany into parts...but that's just a really really short summary.
2006-07-15 05:19:57
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answer #3
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answered by Obilee 4
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Type "Second World War" or something like that in the box of the search site as Yahoo, Google, etc. and you'll get what you want more than you need!
2006-07-15 13:18:48
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answer #4
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answered by Anonymous
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after world war 1, germany was forced to pay for the damage they did. the people were starving and had no money after paying millions of dollars. adolf hitler comes out of nowhere and blames the suffering of the germans on the jews. the germans agree so he makes the nazi party and they force jews into concentration camps and kills them. he makes an alliance with italy and japan. great britain, france, and the soviet union get involved and start fighting. the united states decides to stay neutral. but japan attacks pearl harbor, hawaii, and destroyes several warships and killed thousands of people, the united states got pissed so they attack japan. pretty soon the u.s. involved. in the middle of the war, italy realizes they are losing so they switch over to the good side. the war ends in 1945. japan and germany lost. franklin d. roosevelt (the u.s. president), winston churchill (britain's prime minister), make a treaty. when hitler realizes he lost, he took his girlfriend underground, married her, shot her, then he shot himself.
*german's leader= adolf hitler
*japan's war leader= general yammamoto
*italy's leader= benito mussolini
2006-07-15 13:03:36
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answer #5
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answered by Anonymous
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Why bother about the Second World War? Can't you leave the past where it belongs?
2006-07-15 05:21:14
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answer #6
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answered by Anonymous
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World War II, also known as the Second World War, was the largest and deadliest war in history. Generally regarded as taking place between 1939 and 1945, with roots in earlier conflicts such as the Second Sino-Japanese War, it culminated in the dropping of the atomic bomb.
The Allied Powers, led by the British Empire and Commonwealth, the Soviet Union, and the United States, defeated the Axis Powers, led by Germany, Italy, and Japan.
The war was fought in response to the military aggression of Nazi Germany under the fascist dictator Adolf Hitler, and the imperial ambitions of Japan in Asia.
It is believed that approximately 62 million people, or 2.5% of the world population, died in the war; estimates vary greatly. About 60% of all casualties were civilians, who died as a result of disease, starvation, genocide (in particular, the Holocaust), massacres, and aerial bombing.
After World War II, Europe was informally split into Western and Soviet spheres of influence. There was a shift in power from Western Europe and the British Empire to two new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.
In Asia, the defeat of Japan led to its democratization. China's civil war continued through and after the war, resulting eventually in the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The former colonies of the European powers began their road to independence.
Commonly held general causes for WWII are the rise of nationalism, the rise of militarism, and the presence of unresolved territorial issues. Fascist dictatorships emerged during the global economic instability of the 1920s and came into their full authority during the Great Depression of the 1930s. In Germany, resentment of the Treaty of Versailles — specifically article 231 (the "Guilt Clause"), the belief in the Dolchstosslegende, and the onset of the Great Depression — fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler's militarist National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party). Meanwhile, the Treaty's provisions were laxly enforced from fear of another war. Closely related is the failure of the British and French policy of appeasement, which sought to avoid war but actually encouraged Hitler to become bolder and gave Germany time to re-arm, and the USSR's signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact which freed Germany of fear of reprisal from the Soviet Union when Germany invaded Poland. The League of Nations, despite its efforts to prevent the war, relied too heavily on the Great Powers of Europe to enforce its resolutions, and was unable to prevent the start of The Second World War.
Japan in the 1930s was ruled by a militarist clique devoted to becoming a world power. Japan invaded China to bolster its meager stock of natural resources. The United States reacted by making loans to China, providing covert military assistance, and instituting increasingly broad embargoes of raw materials against Japan. These embargoes would have eventually forced Japan to give up its newly conquered possession in China because the Japanese would not have enough fuel to run their war machine; Japan was faced with the choice of withdrawing from China or going to war with the United States in order to conquer the oil resources of the Dutch East Indies. It chose the latter, and went ahead with plans for the Greater East Asia War in the Pacific.
At the end of the war, millions of refugees were homeless, the European economy had collapsed, and 70% of the European industrial infrastructure was destroyed. The Soviet Union had been heavily affected, with 30% of its economy destroyed. The effects lasted for decades as a price for being the forefront in defeating the Axis Powers.
2006-07-15 05:20:54
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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http://www.historychannel.com ;) it will tell you all you need to know but to tell you the US never intende don being in the 2nd world war
2006-07-15 12:37:07
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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Play Medal of Honor.
2006-07-16 00:11:32
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answer #9
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answered by Anonymous
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Why don't you read some good books on the subject. You could start with, "The Greatest Generation" bt Tom Brokaw.
2006-07-15 08:53:33
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answer #10
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answered by rhymingron 6
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It was very large and encompassed the whole world pretty much. You will need to be more specific.
2006-07-15 05:20:14
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answer #11
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answered by Anonymous
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