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what else is happening well when I said
britain was all alone that wasn't
entirely true many Commonwealth nations
and other allied colonies had joined the
war in Britain support they would play a
key role throughout the war particularly
in the African and Italian campaigns on
the axis side Germany Italy and Japan
signed a defensive tripartite pact
bringing their military lines even
closer together the soviet union's war
against finland should have been an easy
victory but it became a humiliating
struggle and their military ineptitude
was put on full display in the end they
did force the Finns to sue for peace
then they continued their honorable
campaign of pushing around much smaller
countries by annexing the baltic states
and part of northern Romania france's
colonies in Equatorial Africa were like
heck no we aren't going to join the
Germans and they all pledged their
allegiance to free France except for
Gabon which had to be taken by military
force the Allies also tried to capture
the strategic port of the car but that
ended in failure Mussolini had seen
Hitler's successes and he thought now it
was Italy's time to shine so he tried to
take British Somaliland and that went
pretty well then he tried to take Egypt
and that went less well then he tried to
take Greece and that went really badly
Churchill began referring to Italy as
Europe's soft underbelly
he began favoring a military campaign
from the south and started sending
British troops to Greece all of this had
Hitler pretty concerned and he moved to
protect his southern flank he had been
getting friendly with hungry and twisted
the arm into signing the tripartite pact
and joining the Axis powers Romania was
also eager to join for protection
against the Soviet Union the tripartite
pact was designed to prevent any other
countries from deciding to join the
Allies specifically Britain's old ally
the pesky United States of America when
war first broke out American public
opinion was strongly against joining in
in 1940 there was an election the
Republican candidate said I will not
send any young Americans to die in
Europe and sitting president Franklin D
Roosevelt said I will also not send any
young Americans to die in Europe unless
I have to then I might and Roosevelt won
Churchill asked him to join the war
Roosevelt said no can do Winston but you
know what here have some weapons America
began supplying the Allies with food and
munitions but there was one problem
German u-boats were sinking thousands of
Allied supply ships in the Atlantic
including American ones
if the Germans could sever Britain's
supply line the UK would starve
throughout the war the Allies had to
come up with better technology to fight
the u-boats improved radar aircraft with
longer range better weaponry and convoy
tactics at one point a man even called a
meeting and said pykrete it takes him
would you take some ice you put them
together you get pykrete and then he
pulled out a gun and shot some wooden it
shattered and then he shot some pykrete
and the bullet ricocheted off that hit
someone else in the conference room then
they tried to make a pykrete aircraft
carrier but that idea was scrapped
because that's a really dumb idea in the
end
Alan Turing and his team of code
breakers cracked Germany's Enigma code
and the u-boats gradually became less
and less of a threat back in Africa
Britain decided to push Italy out of
Egypt hey that was pretty easy so they
kept going Hitler realized he was going
to have to finally step in and do
something he went to Bulgaria Yugoslavia
and said hey I'm gonna move troops
through you to get to Greece so either
join us or you know be invaded Bulgaria
opted to join them Yuka Slavia opted to
be invaded then Greece finally fell to
the joint German Italian invasion the
British had moved troops from North
Africa to fight in Greece which helped
Rommel and his tank divisions push the
British back to Egypt and they could
have kept going but a small mostly
Australian force held out under siege
for eight months into birth denying the
Germans a strategic port city and
disrupting their supply line despite
having some success in the Middle East
the British didn't seem like any real
threat for now Hey Soviet Union look out
with three million troops Hitler
launched the largest ground invasion in
history and Stalin was far from ready
both Churchill and Roosevelt had warned
him of an impending attack but he dug
his head in the sand and the Soviets
didn't stand a chance
Germany made staggering progress with
huge encircling movements capturing
mind-boggling numbers of Russian troops
a quarter million a paella stock Minsk
300,000 at Smolensk nearly 700,000 at
Kiev and again at V asthma and brines
Leningrad was put under a siege that
would last and insufferable for years
the invasion of Russia had been Hitler's
main ideological goal from the beginning
and is hatred for the ethnic people's
there was now unleashed in all its fury
the Eastern Front of the Second World
War was brutal for all that endured it
the Germans were now inside of Moscow
and that's it it's all over but then it
happened
it got cold stupid cold Hitler had hoped
the Soviets would give up before winter
but they kept fighting his commanders
came to him and said can we please dig
in for the winter and wait until spring
no keep going but oil is literally
freezing inside our vehicles that's fine
keep going we're having to leave the
corpses of our frozen horses by the side
of the road so we can still find a way
in the snowdrift perfectly normal
keep going Hitler hadn't given his
millions of men winter clothing and
supplies because he thought he really
should have won by now then Stalin
called in troops from the Siberian front
specially trained to fight in the
extreme cold and the Germans were no
match they were now being pushed back
they had no choice but to dig in and
wait for winter to end Germany's
victories were staggering and Japan was
eager not to miss the victory bus their
war in China had come to a standstill
but they wanted to keep expending the
sphere of influence and getting the
sweet sweet raw materials they began
making plans to expand southwards but
there was a problem Southeast Asia was
heavily colonized by America and Great
Britain it was also full of potion ocean
mint naval combat and there was no way
the Japanese Navy could stand up to the
US and the UK so they thought wouldn't
it be nice if we could destroy their
navies before we begin our conquest and
so it was on December 7 1941 the
Japanese launched a surprise air raid on
the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and
inflicted a huge amount of damage they
also attacked British colonies in
Southeast Asia
Roosevelt had no choice but to declare
war on Japan and so did Churchill Hitler
then declared war on America even though
he totally didn't have to the attack on
Pearl Harbor seemed like a big Japanese
victory but they didn't attack any of
the naval or Perry
fuel storage tanks or the submarine base
meaning the Pacific Fleet would be up
and running again pretty soon in the
meantime though the Japanese were able
to begin their conquest they took Guam
the Gilbert Islands Wake Island Hong
Kong in the Philippines be forced
Thailand to join them so they can March
their troops through to Malaya they
swept through Singapore North Borneo the
East Indies New Guinea the Solomons and
they were now threatening northern
Australia and the borders of India
Japan's victory had been as staggering
as the Germans and re-enforced the
Japanese idea that this was a divine war
which they were destined to win but
their victories had been based on speed
not power and power would eventually
catch up with them for now though in all
occupied nations the people suffered
persecution forced labor harsh
punishments for any who spoke out
against their occupiers in Europe the
Nazis were rounding up ethnic minorities
and other unwanted groups and
individuals in particular millions of
Jewish people would suffer through the
terrible events of the Holocaust brave
resistance movements rose up in defiance
of their invaders well the people held
out for hope and hope was coming winter
was over and Hitler could continue his
push eastward but this time he switched
off his strategy he wanted to focus on
the south his plan was to cut off the
Russian armies in the Caucasus an area
full of oil and then invade the Caucasus
and take all the oil his forces moved
across the north with ease and Hillier
got cocky he rerouted the fourth Panzer
army south early leaving the 6th army to
complete the encircling movement alone
to do so the sickle army had to reach
and take the key Soviet city of
Stalingrad the Russians defended it
fiercely and Stalingrad saw some of the
harshest fighting of the entire war the
Soviets held up the German advance for
five months as they battled in the
war-torn city which bought them valuable
time when the Germans had first launched
their invasion a year earlier the
Soviets had moved their factories to the
east those factories had been building a
but ton of tanks and aircrafts and
getting the Soviet army to scratch now
it was ready Stalin gathered his new and
improved forces around the city and in
an attack that resembled Hitler's own
encirclement tactics they began
surrounding the 6th army Hitler's
commanders came to him and said hey
maybe we should retreat but Hitler said
no no you stay
the entire stick the army was trapped
and had to surrender with complete air
superiority the Soviets started pushing
westward for Stalin it was a resounding
victory for Hitler and absolute
catastrophe things also weren't looking
too good for Hitler elsewhere with
America now and the war allied bombing
over German cities reached devastating
levels in Africa the British had pushed
Rommel back again then they were pushed
back again and finally after a decisive
battle at El Alamein and with American
and British troops arriving in the West
the Germans and Italians were squeezed
out of Africa Japan was also already
seeing its rapid success being turned
around they attempted to take the island
of Midway but the US Navy was ready for
the attack and they sank Japan's carrier
actually they sent a lot of them it was
a battle from which the Japanese Navy
would never recover British Indian and
Chinese troops held the line in the
harsh jungle terrain of Burma and the
Japanese suffered losses in the Solomon
Islands and New Guinea they began to
realize they were not invincible with
the axis Out of Africa the Allies had to
decide their next move Churchill still
wanted to attack from the south while
the Americans prefer to fool sea
invasion in northern France all right
said the Americans will do it your way
Allied forces successfully landed in
Sicily and began moving north they also
carried out bombing raids over Rome the
thing was many of the people in Sicily
had relatives living in America and they
greeted the American troops quite warmly
with the war reaching home territory
most Italians just weren't that into it
and Mussolini was suddenly very
unpopular he was voted out by his own
fascist grand council and was toppled
from power Italy immediately began
negotiations for surrender Hitler wasn't
surprised and had already sent
reinforcements southward in an operation
he ironically called Operation access
German troops quickly disarmed Italian
troops in the north the Allies continued
fighting the Germans up through Italy
but then winter set in
meaning mud and everything slowed to a
halt all right said the Americans let's
do it our way as well Germany had made
itself a lot of enemies and millions of
Allied troops had been gathering in
England as factories worked around the
clock producing the war materiel needed
for a super crazy massive the likes of
which the world has never seen before
invasion of Europe the Germans knew in
allied invasion would come but they
didn't know where it would land
thanks to Allied deception tactics they
thought there was a pretty good chance
it would come a Calais but the Allies
were really gonna land in Normandy
because I was less fortified and the
beaches were nicer under the careful
planning of General Dwight Eisenhower
the invasion that had been long in the
making was just about ready to go
just one thing was preventing the launch
the British weather
while everyone sat around waiting for a
decent day and then it came on the night
of June 5th over a thousand bombers took
off the rated coastline defenses while
paratroopers were dropped inland in a
bit of a chaotic operation tasked with
sabotaging defenses and capturing key
bridges to stop any German
reinforcements from reaching the beaches
early the next morning the barrage came
as Allied ships fired a huge number of
shells at the German fortifications and
then the landings the Americans at Utah
and Omaha the British had golden sword
and the Canadians at Juno it was a
tremendous struggle with a great loss of
life particularly at Omaha but the
Allied troops captured the beaches and
the landings were success then they
began their movements inland they took
the port of Sher Berg and the city of
Qom the Americans move south to capture
Brittany then in a massive disaster for
the Germans British and Canadian troops
from the north and Americans from the
south trapped a German Seventh Army in a
near wipeout encircling movement in
August Allied troops landed in the South
of France too little resistance on one
beach all they found was a French man
handing out champagne Paris was
liberated and the Germans were pushed
out of France as the Allies entered
Belgium in the Far East the ally started
to push the Japanese out of Burma as the
Americans launched a two-pronged
offensive in the Pacific in the south
General MacArthur led the push to
liberate the Philippines while General
Nimitz oversaw the brutal island-hopping
campaign American forces had to make
hard-fought landing after a hard-fought
landing on fiercely defended small
islands as they moved steadily towards
the Japanese mainland the Japanese
belief that the greatest thing a person
could do was to die in battle and the
most dishonorable act was to surrender
as a result they fought ferociously to
the very end and the closer the
Americans got to the mainland the more
ferocious the resistance became in
February 1945 the Americans captured the
island of Iwo Jima and an intense fire
bombing campaign of Japan's wooden
cities began the ally suffered some
setbacks trying to liberate the
Netherlands but they were making
progress and were now threatening the
industrial heartland of Germany Hitler's
health both mentally and physically was
rapidly deteriorating things were
looking bad and he was desperate he said
we need to turn this thing around and
I've just the trick
remember a few years back when we
blitzkrieg through the our den and
trapped the Allied forces in Belgium
well I'm gonna do the exact same thing
again he gathered his forces and tried
to pound them through the our den he
used up the remainder of Germany's
strength and resources and he managed to
create quite a nice bulge he also
trapped some American forces in the
Belgian town of Bastogne the Germans
sent the trapped Americans a message
saying surrender or be annihilated
when it was read out
commanding officer he said they wanted
surrender no sir they want us to
surrender nuts
and that's what they sent off as their
official reply General Patton's Third
Army then managed to break the seats
from the Southwest and the Germans were
pushed back Hitler's last-ditch attempt
had failed of what followed was a total
collapse of the German forces the Allies
pushed into Germany from both sides the
Soviet Union took Warsaw and kept
pushing to Berlin in his bunker Hitler
realized all hope was lost Berlin fell
and with it Hitler's dreams of a great
German Empire two of the Axis nations
had been knocked out one to go the
Americans began their assault on Okinawa
the last island before they would reach
the Japanese mainland the desperate
Japanese fought hard launching kamikaze
attacks on the US ships the citizens of
Okinawa suffered through the terrible
fighting but in two months the island
was captured the Allies now had to make
a choice either continued the
devastating struggle up the Japanese
mainland or they could try to coerce the
Japanese into surrendering now in July
the first successful atomic bomb test
took place in New Mexico and the
destructive weapon was ready for use
America and the UK were also seeing the
Soviet Union not so much liberating as
occupying its captured territories and
so they wanted to put on a show of force
on August 6th the a bomb fell on Russia
then on the 9th Nagasaki the cities were
reduced to rubble and for the people
living there it was a terrible fate but
for the Allies it achieved their main
aim in September the Emperor announced
Japan's surrender saying the war
situation has developed not necessarily
to Japan's advantage after six years war
was finally over the Allies occupied
Japan for eight years the Emperor was
allowed to keep his position but General
MacArthur made sure this picture was
printed in the Japanese press to display
to the Japanese people that their
emperor was not the divine powerful
being they had believed Germany was
divided between America the UK France
and the Soviet Union in 1949 the Allied
sectors were united into West Germany
the Second World War had been more
terrible and destructive than the first
in its aftermath two major superpowers
with two very different ideologies had
come out victorious and the tension
between the two of them would create a
new kind of war
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