Hello everybody and welcome back to another edition of Nations Made Fun! Today we will be finishing up our review of the United States with a little more history. Let's get straight into it, shall we?
When we left off last Sunday, we were finishing up our explanation of the Revolutionary War. We've already discussed the Civil War on last War Wednesday, so we're going to jump right into the most gruesome war the United States has ever seen, and that is World War II.
World War II was the worst war mankind has ever seen. It spanned across all the continents (excluding Antarctica) and all of our oceans. The estimated death toll for such a war clocks in at a whopping 50 million military and civilian lives, including the Jewish people that Hitler so brutally executed.
Among the horror, World War II coincidentally ended the Great Depression by forcing hundreds of thousands of people to go into the defense industries.
Many believe that the war was sparked when a small political party leader promised his country financial success if only they were to follow his way of life. That political party was the Nazis and the radical political leader was Adolf Hitler. As he amassed more and more supporters in favor of his party, the German leader promoted Hitler to the Chancellor position. After the German president died, Hitler was made the president and he appointed himself to the supreme overlord of the entire government. This is how Hitler gained control of Germany and tried to take over all of Europe.
As many know, World War II ended shortly after the U.S. bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki after Japan launched an attack on Hawaii later known as Pearl Harbor. Things have been pretty chill for America since World War II. No country is safe from the brutality of war, and America is no exception.
I think that that will be it for today's post. Thank you for reading and sticking around for an entire week. I know I don't ask much, but if you would please share this with any friends you might have, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you and good night!
Sources: https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II,
https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/world-war-2.cfm
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