P re m By- th - 9 STD Information on World War-2 How did war World 2 start?
On September 1, 1939, Hitler
invaded Poland from the west two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II. On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. Powers Of World War-2
Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan,
Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) vs Allies (U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia).
{ALLIES WON THE WAR}
Treaty Of Versailles The Versailles Treaty forced Germany to give up territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland, return Alsace and Lorraine to France and cede all of its overseas colonies in China, Pacific and Africa to the Allied nations Germany lost:- 1} Drain of Resources 2} Lost from Allies 3} Lost 13% of Teritories 4} 75% of Iron 5} 26% Coal 6} Loss of 6M Pound [cash] USA in World War-2 1]When did America start loaning money to its European allies?
In mid-December 1940, Roosevelt
introduced a new policy initiative whereby the United States would lend, rather than sell, military supplies to Great Britain for use in the fight against Germany. When was WWII debt paid off?
On 31 December 2006, Britain made a
final payment of about $83m (£45.5m) and thereby discharged the last of its war loans from the US. By the end of World War II Britain had amassed an immense debt of £21 billion. Did the US make money from ww2?
The gross national product of the U.S., as
measured in constant dollars, grew from $88.6 billion in 1939 — while the country was still suffering from the depression — to $135 billion in 1944. War-related production skyrocketed from just two percent of GNP to 40 percent in 1943 How much did ww2 cost the US?
It was America's costliest war ever. America's final
bill for the fighting in the Pacific and Europe was massive. In today's dollars, World War II cost $4.1 trillion, according to data from the Congressional Research Service. Great Distruction of Japan by US Japan attact US’s pearl harbor, because of that The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. Littel Boy atomic bomb "Little Boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II. It was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. The bomb was dropped by the Boeing B-29
Designer-Los Alamos Laboratory
Produced1945–1947 Mass-9,700 pounds (4,400 kg) Length-10 feet (3.0 m) Diameter-28 inches (71 cm) Fat Man atomic bomb "Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) is the codename for the type of nuclear bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare
Designer- Los Alamos Laboratory
Produced1945–1949 Mass- 10,300 pounds (4,670 kg) Length-128 inches (3.3 m) Diameter-60 inches (1.5 m)