World War 2 Summary

World War 2 was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945.World War 2 was the deadliest conflict in human history. 50 to 85 million fatalities,most of which were civilians in the Soviet Union and China.It included massacres,the deliberate genocide of the Holocaust,starving,disease and first use of nuclear weapons in history.The Empire of Japan aimed to dominate Asia and the Pacific was already at war with the Republic of China in 1937.Although the world war is generally said to have begun on September 1 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazis.

The Holocaust was also during the World War 2.The Holocaust is a very sad event.From 1941 to 1945,Germany targeted European Jewry for extermination as part of a large event that included the persecution and murder of other groups.After years of Nazi rule in Germany,during which Jews were consistently persecuted.Many died.

Adolf Hitler,Dictator,Military Leader.Adolf Hitler was the chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945.Hitler policies precipitated led to the holocaust.He comminted suicide with wife Eva Braun on April 30,1945 in his Berlin bunker.He thought everyone had to have blonde hair and blue eyes.If you didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes,you were sent to a concentration camp.

Concentration camps.Deaths and mass executions took place in concentration and extermination camps including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Treblinka.The camps,Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau and Treblinka were five more of the “Death camps.”From 1942 to 1942,Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe,including German-controlled territory as well those countries allied with Germany.There were many ways for Jews to die in these concentration camps,by starving,being beat to death,also the gas chamber.These horrid event led to manying people dead and so even told their story about these camps.

Since these event happened people want to share their story and to show people,who luckly wasn’t apart of these events.A famous little girl,named Anne Frank,who wasn’t one of the lucky ones,does know what it was like.Anne’s story was told by her diary.Her diary told how she went into hiding in a hidden room with a book case hidden door.Her family was moved and separted.Anne and her sister,Marget,were moved to Auschwits to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp,who probably died from a sickness.Otto,Anne’s father,was the only one who had survive,he went back to Amsterdam after the war to find her diary was saved by one of the helper.Which soon became famous.

The Holocaust was a horrible event but,sadly,it’s a part of history,also the World War 2.