12,000 were left dead, 38,000 Americans were wounded and 10,000 civilians perished during Okinawa. The battle at Okinawa was named the bloodiest battle of the Pacific War. The United States entered World War II in December 1941, when Japan attacked the American naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After that Hitler declared war on the United States, along with Germany. The United States and British troops landed on the beaches of Algeria and Morocco in North Africa on November 8, 1942.
They were evacuated on naval vessels, civilian boats and little ships. There were over a thousand civilian casualties and an estimated five hundred and fifty four were killed and a further seven hundred and ninety one lost their lives in the course of their duties before coming to an end. When Hitler came to power he was determined to make Germany a great power again and to dominate Europe. He had set out his ideas in a book called Mein Kampf (My Struggle) that he had written in prison in 1924. His main aims were to: destroy the Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germany after her defeat in World War One.
World War II was a disastrous, worldwide conflict that affected all the corners of the earth. Even after VE day in Europe, the war continued for more than 3 months, until VJ day in mid-August of 1945. This war in Japan ended a short time after the atomic bombing of two cities in Japan. However, the decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a diplomatic measure calculated to intimidate the Soviet Union in the post Second World War era, rather than a strictly military measure designed to force Japan’s unconditional surrender. The US at the time of the bombing of Hiroshima was led by Harry S. Truman, who had been pushed into the position of leadership by the death of Roosevelt.
The Holocaust vs. the Rwanda Genocide The Jewish Holocaust was the murdering of approximately six million European Jews. This horrific event occurred during World War II. The Holocaust was a program of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds perished. This plan of persecution and discrimination was carried out in multiple stages.
“Asses the significance of the North African campaign in the Allied victory in WWII” The North African Campaign was a key part of World War II as it was the first real defeat on Germany, allowing the allies to attack, and ultimately pulled them further away from victory in the East. The significant elements from the North African campaign for the allied victory in WWII included; it assured the British still gained control of the Suez canal, the creation of the United States involvement into the war, the tactical significance, Germany had to fight a 3 front war. The conflict in North Africa rose around Italy’s eagerness to utilise Germany’s 6-week successful invasion of France and make an impact on the war. In September 1940 Italian General Graziani invaded British colony of Egypt sparking the campaign. Italy did not hold a threat to the British until March 1941 when German Africa Korps counterattacked under the command of General Rommel.
The city of Hiroshima was the primary target. The city held at that time an estimated population of 300,000 to 400,000 people. According to the United Nations in 1976, the death toll of the 'Little Boy' had reached 140,000 people, give or take a couple tens of thousands of people. All buildings near Ground Zero were completely destroyed and anyone near four-kilometers of the explosion was killed and the deadly gamma radiation spread many miles out. The former economic house of Japan was left with bloody pools and rooting dead bodies.
The end of the Blitz was in the middle of May 1941 when the heaviest and last bombing happened until 1944 in the night. By this point tens of thousands of homes had been destroyed, thousands of lives lost and 27,500 tons of explosive material had been dropped on Britain. The majority of that on London and some on Coventry and other big industrial cities. The first source that I analysed was a diary entry by a sixteen year old boy who was part of the clear up at pearl harbour. I picked this source because it was written by a younger person who from what I gathered from other entry was not very aware of anything that was going on and who had bombed them and why.
The Holocaust was one of the worst events to ever happen to mankind. It was started by the Fuhrer of Germany, Adolf Hitler, who thought that the Aryan race was superior to every other race. He had a massive hatred for the Jewish race and decided to try and exterminate every living Jewish person. He killed around two-thirds of all the European Jews (Byers 10). World War II was going on at the same time as the Holocaust.
The atomic bombs were dropped on the sixth and the ninth of August in the year 1945. The estimated death count of civilians from Hiroshima and Nagasaki shot up to a depressing number of 220,000. Six days after the bomb was dropped in Nagasaki, Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers, which officially ended the Pacific War and therefore concluded World War II. In the book Hiroshima, John Hersey expounds the severity of a war, vindicating how combat brutally affects the lives of civilians. Throughout his heart-touching novel, Hiroshima, John Hersey clearly makes known through the text’s influential characters, disturbing plot, and detailed setting, that he was strongly against the decision to drop the bomb.
Three days later, the United States bombed Nagasaki. Of the 286,00 people living there at the time of the blast, 74,000 were killed and another 75,000 sustained severe injuries. Japan agreed to an unconditional surrender on August 14, 1945; it also resulted in the end of World War II. In subsequent years, the United States, the Soviet Union and Great Britain conducted several nuclear weapons tests. In 1954, President Jawaharlal Nehru of India called for a ban on nuclear