WORLD WAR II (DESTROY THE WORLD)

Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Second World War was fought from 1939 to 1945. In this war Germany, Italy, Japan, Rumania, etc. were on one side and were known as ‘The Axis Powers’. On the other side , there were Britain, France, America, Soviet, Russia, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, etc. in all 30 countries and these were known as ‘The Allies’.

The Treaty of Versailles, concluded at the end of the First World War (1914-1918) was very unjust and became the root cause of the Second World War. Extremely unfair terms were imposed by the Allied Powers on Germany. The process of behaving towards the defeated countries of the First World War like Germany, Australia, Hungary and Turkey was humiliating and hence it created feeling of reaction and relation in the minds of Germans and other Allies. The aggressive policy followed by Germany, Italy, Japan and the total failure of the League of Nations to put a check on them was also much responsible for the outbreak of the Second World War. America’s aloofness from the European politics after the First World War also became one of the causes of the Second World War. It encouraged France to humiliate Germany.

Germany attacked Poland in 1939 and it forced both England and France to give up the policy of appeasement and to declare war against Germany on 3^rd September, 1939. Soon after other countries were drawn into this war and it took the shape of the World War 2. The World War 2 came to an end in 1945 when Germany was surrounded by the force of Allied Powers from all sides and Hitler committed suicide on May 3, 1945. On May 7, Germany surrounded un conditionally. With the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on 6^th August and 9^th August, 1945 respectively, Japan also surrendered on August 14, 1945. Thus the Second World War came to an end.