Synopsis Of World War II - 1939 Words

Gerardo Anaya Mr. Montgomery World History P.3 3-9-15 Synopsis World War II was one of the biggest and most deadly wars that have occurred in history, with sixty million casualties and it involved many countries. On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland is what started World War II. The war ends when Germany signs an unconditional surrender on May 7, 1945 at Allied headquarters in Reims, France. Meanwhile in a top secret lab in the US, approximately 100,000 scientists worked on the Manhattan project. On August 6, 1945, The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan. The bomb wounded and killed nearly 150,000 people The Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima caused destruction in japan. I will also be talking about†¦show more content†¦Members of the Nazi party knew of the ills of the populace that grew discontent with the government, and in 1919, Hitler became a member. He later became Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. On September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland started World Wa r II. Hitler’s motivation to invade Poland was because he wanted to regain lost territory and conquer new territory and because the policy of appeasement had given him confidence. First Hitler had to make sure that the Soviet Union wouldn’t interfere in the invasion of its western neighbor Poland. So prior to the invasion, on August 23, 1939, the German-Soviet nonaggression pact was signed in Moscow. The Germans and Soviets decided that Poland should be split between them; the western third of the country to Germany and the eastern two thirds to the U.S.S.R., Hitler was so determined, that he ignored the western diplomatic powers. At 12:40 P.M, August 31, 1939, the next morning, Hitler gave orders to invade Poland at 4:45. The invasion of Poland began as ordered by Hitler. Germany bombarded Poland by land and air. Germany invaded Poland by the North and Silesia and Slovakia invaded Poland by the South. Germanys units summed 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes. Germanyâ⠂¬â„¢s tanks broke through the Polish border, and advanced to Warsaw. They used a massive encirclement attack