What are some things that happened during WWII?

Answer 1

The American battle in the South Pacific against the Japanese was secondary to the battle in Europe. US Marines were often thirsty and hungry. Even the US Navy turned tail on the Marines and left them in a lurch for a while.

Many aren't aware of the misery the US Marines had to endure in conquering the Japanese...the ones that struck Pearl harbor on December 7th, 1941.

Answer 2

World War II lasted from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. It was the most devastating war in human history and killed an estimated 55 million people (military and civilians). What began as a conflict between Germany and an Anglo-French coalition eventually widened to include most of the nations of the world. It ended leaving a new world order dominated by the United States and the USSR. Extreme nationalism and racist fascism under dictator Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party led to military aggression by Germany, which began the war with the invasion of Poland in 1939. Dominated by a imperialist military, Japan spread the war to parts of Asia and Oceania with an attack on Pearl Harbor and countries in the Pacific in 1941. The Allies (led by Britain, USSR, and the United States) defeated the Axis Powers (led by Germany, Italy, and Japan).

Answer 3

The decline of the battleship. The rise of air power and the supremacy of the aircraft carrier as the way to project power at sea. The creation of the jet engine powered fighter plane. The creation of the atom bomb. Rockets used to deliver bombs.
The blitzkrieg or warfare by rapid movement vs. WW1's stagnant trench warfare.
There is a saying that "an army moves on its stomach." It means an army needs a large safe means of resupply. The most massive supply line in history was developed in WW2. Not needing slow horses, or the building of railroads, it kept up with the rapidly moving front lines. It was known as the "Red Ball Express."
Massive rapid movement of troops behind enemy lines via gliders and parachute drops.
The development of radar, portable radio communication, cryptography. The use of Navajo's and their language as an unbreakable code. Development of the aqualung and frogman forces. Development of an army adapted to mountain and artic conditions (10th Mountain Division)

Answer 4

I am sure that you know that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and that brought the U.S. into the war. Some of the men in those ships were buried in a water grave because we did not have the technology to get them out when the Japanese sunk them.The Battle at Normandy was one of the bloodiest parts of the war, we remember this as D-day. Thousands of Americans lost their lives trying to take that land. The planes were suppose to bomb the shore line so that the men would have fox holes to crawl into when they reached the beach,but they missed the target and the men were sitting ducks out in the open. Hitler took many Jews to the concentration camps and killed them in the gas chambers.Often the Jews themselves had to take the dead bodies out of the gas chamber. My father said when they were coming up to a concentration camp you could smell them 20 miles away, the stench of rotting human remains was terrible. We bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and that is what actually ended the war with the Japs. Hitler knew that his people were loosing ground and he killed himself. We freed the French, and that is why there is a big American cemetery over there, that they sometimes try to do damage to because they forgot that we saved their butts in WWII and they are ungrateful. The U.S. worked with Britian and we cleaned up Germany. Stallan took half of Germany and we took the other half. Several years ago they tore down the wall between east and west Germany and they are trying to make them one. The half that America was in charge of was prosperous and the part that Russia was in charge of was horrible. Hitler was the one that thought that he should be in power of the world. He felt that the Aerian race were the only people that should be left to live. The white race was supreme and all others are subhuman. The guy was a nut case. But many people followed him, in the beginning he was very smooth and cunning. After the was the U.S. took some of the Generals in Hitlers army and thought that they could use them for spying against Russia, but they gave the U.S. false information in exchange for a fine life of privledge. They should have killed them for War Crimes but instead they thought that they could use them but that proved to be a bad choice. They also hired a large group of German scientists and with their knowledge they were able to put men on the moon and in to space. Hitler had his scientists working with rocket power for several years but to no avail. When they got to the U.S. they were able to do much to advance our technology. My father said that the Americans were starting to take over Russia and they were half way into the Country and still shooting after the war was declared over, because the Americans hated the Russians because they were cruel and heartless bastards. Finally the U.S. told the soldiers that they had to get on the planes and any one left would stay in Russia, my dad said that they stopped shooting and got on the planes to go home. He always said that the biggest mistake that the U.S. made was to not take over Russia also. He said they were half way through the country and if they would have been permitted to continue they could have taken the entire country.
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Answer 5

Pearl Harbor, the dropping of the A-bomb on Hiroshima, and the rise and fall of Naziism, Hitler, and the Holocaust to name a few.

Answer 6

There was rationing of gas, tires, coffee,food, shoes; stamps were issued to buy goods. if you used up your quota, you did without. People today with their cell phones, remote control tv's, fancy cars and an abundant food supply, would not make it under those conditions

Answer 7

The Holocaust, Bombing of Pearl Harbor, lots of devastating events happened!
Check it out here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_2

Answer 8

The sun came up and went down several times. I think there was a misunderstanding in Europe and the Pacific. Dwight Eisenhower was alive. Lets see, I guess thats about it.

Answer 9

Oh! where do I start?

Africa, Arnheim, Blitz, Bombings,>>>>>>>Z

The list is endless

Answer 10

wwii is great you can play tennis on it and legend of zelda