World+War+Two

Franklin D. Roosevelt / Adolf Hitler / Joseph Stalin / Emperor Hirihoto United States / Germany / Soviet Union (Russia) / Japan ** World War Two ** September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 The start of the war is generally held to be in September 1st 1939 with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by most of the countries in the British Commonwealth and France. Many belligerents were at war before or after this date, during a period which spanned from 1937 to 1941, as a result of other events. Amongst these main events are the Marco Polo Bridge incident (fought between Nationalist China and Japan), the start of Operation Barborossa (the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union), and the attacks on Pearl Harbor and British and Dutch colonies in South East Asia. The United States entered the war immediately after the Empire of Japan bombed the U.S. Pacific Fleet based in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. After the war ended in 1945, the Soviet Union and the Unites States emerged as the world's superpowers. This set the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 45 years. The United Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another such conflict **LINKS** [|wikipedia] [|infoplease.com] An assignment incorporating a technology tool for this unit could be done on wordle.net. On this website you could type a paragraph on an important event that happened during World War Two.
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