World War 2 Summary

World War II (WWII): (1939-1945) Under the rule of Adolf Hitler, Germany tried to expand its empire. After World War I, Germany was forced to give up land, weapons and money. Signing the peace treaty did not work as well as it was expected. The treaty was supposed to create a lasting peace, but it created hidden tension between Germany and the Allied Powers. In violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler began rebuilding the German military, and reclaiming as well as expanding its empire. Hitler led the Nazi party in its attempt to regain power. The Nazis invaded Austria in 1938, and in 1939 they invaded Czechoslovakia. World War II started on September 1, 1939, with the invasion of Poland. It was on September 3rd that Britain declared war

The attack disabled nineteen ships, destroyed two hundred planes and killed over two thousand three hundred Americans. The United States entered the war on December 8, 1941, after congress approves Franklin D. Roosevelt's request. After many battles, resulting in huge casualties on both sides, German forces were defeated and pushed back to Germany. In April 1945, the German capital was taken over by the Russians. Adolf Hitler commits suicide, which leads to the German government issuing an unconditional surrender to the Allied forces, on May 7, 1945. After Germany surrendered, Japan did not follow. After about five months of fight against Japan, and losing over one hundred and forty thousand American soldiers, the United States decides to bomb Japan. On August 6, 1945, Harry Truman made the decision to use an atomic bomb on Japan. An atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, instantly killing about seventy thousand Japanese citizens, also causing the deaths of an additional one hundred thousand for the next few months and years. Japan still would not surrender, so another atomic bomb was dropped on August 9th, this time on the city of Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on September 2,

It can be seen to have some beginnings in the 19th century but it peaked during the 1950s and 1960s. The movement was aimed to grant African Americans equal basic privileges and rights as well as equal access to and opportunities for using such rights. The movement was organized and led by African American men and women, as well as whites, at local and national levels. The movement was centered in the south due to the more concentrated African American population. It was in the south that racial inequality was seen in education, economic opportunity, as well as the political and legal processes. In the late 19th century state and local governments passed racial segregation laws, which are known as the Jim Crow Laws. These laws imposed legal restrictions on blacks, such as separate sectors for black and whites, on trains and buses, in restaurants, schools, hospitals, parks, and even cemeteries. In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education, that deliberate segregation of public schools is illegal. It was this case that overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v Ferguson. This decision lead to many other attempts to challenge social segregation. One attempt that is very well known, and seen as effective, was the bus boycotts. The bus boycott was started by Rosa Parks, on December 1, 1955, when she refused to give her seat on the bus to a white