Course Title: World

Civilization
Course Code: GED 201
Section: 03

Prepared by
Name: Asif Faiyed
ID: 191011115
Department: School of
Business
 World War II
BIG DEPRESSION, bad people come to power to turn the economic tide!

Germany’s pride is to be restored and starts to expand in other countries territories, France and
Great Britain tolerate this until Poland Crowded Japan is after resources and invades Manchuria,
China and tons of pacific Island, gets overconfident and attacks an American base. After that
everything goes wrong after December 1941, because of fanatic resistance the USA decides to
throw two big bombs on Japanese cities while the USSR invades Manchuria, Japan surrenders!

Somewhere between all of this Italy struggles to form their own version of mare nostrum by
invading Greece and north Africa - Germany helps them because the Italians are driven back from
Greece and North Africa. Germans in North Africa: “Let’s attack Great Britain...! Oh we’ve ran
out of fuel to maneuver our tanks. Ah finally 50% of our expected supplies arrive, not on time
though. (repeat this process several times)” Germany invades France successfully with a bunch of
other countries then gets overconfident and goes for the ideological target USSR, initial (pyrrhic)
successes but underestimated the power of USSR, after a lot of suffering on both sides, being
stopped just outside Moscow and Germany declaring war on USA in December 1941 Germany
slowly loses all gained territories, victory is sealed after Stalingrad/Kursk/ (Western-Europe saved
from a communist Europe) D-Day and surrenders in May 1945.

World War II killed more people, involved more nations, and cost more money than any other
war in history. Altogether, 70 million people served in the armed forces during the war, and 17
million combatants died. At least 19 million Soviet civilians, 10 million Chinese, and 6 million
European Jews lost their lives during the war. World War II was truly a global war. Some 70
nations took part in the conflict, and fighting took place on the continents of Africa, Asia, and
Europe, as well as on the high seas. Entire societies participated as soldiers or as war workers,
while others were persecuted as victims of occupation and mass murder.

World War II cost the United States a million causalities and nearly 400,000 deaths. In both
domestic and foreign affairs, its consequences were far-reaching. It ended the Depression, brought
millions of married women into the workforce, initiated sweeping changes in the lives of the
nation's minority groups, and dramatically expanded government's presence in American life.
On September 1, 1939, World War II started when Germany invaded Poland. By November
1942, the Axis powers controlled territory from Norway to North Africa and from France to the
Soviet Union. After defeating the Axis in North Africa in May 1941, the United States and its
Allies invaded Sicily in July 1943 and forced Italy to surrender in September. In December, a
German counteroffensive failed. Germany surrendered in May 1945. The United States entered
the war following a surprise attack by Japan on the U.S. The United States and its Allies halted
Japanese expansion at the Battle of Midway in June 1942 and in other campaigns in the South
Pacific. From 1943 to August 1945, the Allies hopped from island to island across the Central
Pacific and also battled the Japanese in China, Burma, and India.

The war ended Depression unemployment and dramatically expanded government's presence in
American life. It led the federal government to create a War Production Board to oversee
conversion to a wartime economy and the Office of Price Administration to set prices on many
items and to supervise a rationing system. During the war, African Americans, women, and
Mexican Americans founded new opportunities in industry. But Japanese Americans living on the
Pacific coast were relocated from their homes and placed in internment camps.

In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt, warning him that the Nazis might
be able to build an atomic bomb. On December 2, 1942, Enrico Fermi, an Italian refugee, produced
the first self-sustained, controlled nuclear chain reaction in Chicago. To ensure that the United
States developed a bomb before Nazi Germany did, the federal government started the secret $2
billion Manhattan Project.

On July 16, 1945, in the New Mexico desert near Alamogordo, the Manhattan Project's scientists
exploded the first atomic bomb. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a B-29 Super fortress, released
an atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan. Between 80,000 and 140,000 people were killed or fatally
wounded. Three days later, a second bomb fell on Nagasaki. About 35,000 people were killed.
President Truman's defenders argued that the bombs ended the war quickly, avoiding the necessity
of a costly invasion and the probable loss of tens of thousands of American lives and hundreds of
thousands of Japanese lives. His critics argued that the war might have ended even without the
atomic bombings. They maintained that the Japanese economy would have been strangled by a
continued naval blockade, and that Japan could have been forced to surrender by conventional
firebombing or by a demonstration of the atomic bomb's power.
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