Why Did Germany Invade Poland

Germany Invades Poland: September 1, 1939

Tension has continued to rise for months now, between nations, and through the invasion of Poland by Germany the final barrier of peace has been demolished. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany. The Polish army rapidly collapsed under the power of Germany and was defeated promptly at the start of the invasion. Poland was invaded from east Prussia and Germany, attacking the North, Silesia, and Slovakia in the South. 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes penetrated Polish defenses along the borders and persisted onto Warsaw in a massive besiegement attack, encircling Polish forces. After massive shelling and bombing, Warsaw promptly surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. After

As the Soviet forces continued to be pushed further and further back, the Germans awaited a total victory. Stalin panicked as the Germans advanced and issued his ‘Not One Step Back’ directive, with execution of any sign of defeatism. The Soviet frontline was motivated by this threat. General Gregory Zhukov confirmed the strict, and rigid rules that the Soviet Army followed “In the Red Army it takes a very brave man to be a coward” (Zhukov). The exhausted Soviet army was pushed back to the outskirts of Stalingrad by August 23. The Germans, and Axis Powers fought the Soviets, street for street, house for house, and room for room. The Germans called this rat warfare, meaning that a strategic stronghold changed sides so many times people could not count the number of changes. A solider was only expected to last three days in this war. Paulus, the German general failed to capture the city, and the Germans suffered the attacks from the Soviet Army, and again, on September 27, Paulus fails to storm the city again. During this winter battle, on October 4, the German troops succeed in capturing the station, pushing the Soviet troops to Volga, but the Soviet paratroopers stopped the advance. On Christmas Day 1942, with a fridge temperate of -25 degrees Fahrenheit, Paulus received a message from Hitler saying he should go into the New Year with

At 2:45 a.m. in the quiet city of Hiroshima, a military base, dawn would be filled with terror that Monday as the Enola Gay took off. A B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay lifted off from Tinian, an island in the Marianas, about 1,500 miles south of Japan. Twelve men were aboard the ship to make sure the mission when off without a hitch. The Enola Gay, was reworked to carry the extremely heavy bomb, and to having stronger engines, propellers, and an opening bomb bay with doors. As the Enola Gay approached Japan, escorted by two other bombers, a ten-foot long atomic bomb, “Little Boy,” awaited its purpose. “Little Boy” was made with uranium-235, which is an extremely radioactive isotope of uranium, costing two billion dollars in research, and had never been tested before. The cities that had been possible targets included the cities of Hiroshima, Kokura, Nagasaki, and Niigata because of their independence from the war. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was target with clear weather. At 8:15 a.m. the Enola Gay’s doors opened and dropped “Little Boy,” exploding 1,900 feet about the city, and only missed its target, the Aioi Bridge, by about 800 feet with precise accuracy. The United States attacked the city Hiroshima, Japan with an atomic weapon, the feared atomic bomb. The atomic bomb had the equivalent of 20,000 tons of TNT, and completely flattened the city with thousands of