When WW2 began? World War Two in Europe began on 3rd September 1939, when the Prime Minister of Britain, Neville Chamberlain, declared war on Germany. It involved many of the world’s countries.
Why WW2 started? After World War One ended in 1918, Germany had to give up land and was banned from having armed forces.In 1933 the German people voted for a leader named Adolf Hitler, who led a political party in Germany called the National Socialists or Nazis. Hitler promised to make his country great again and quickly began to arm Germany again and to seize land from other countries.Shortly before 5am on Friday 1st September, 1939, German forces stormed the Polish frontier. Tanks and motorised troops raced into the country over ground, supported by Stuka dive bombers overhead. A total of 1.25 million Germans soldiers swept into Poland
The World War II Battle of Guadalcanal was the first major offensive and a decisive victory for the Allies in the Pacific theater. With Japanese troops stationed in this section of the Solomon Islands, U.S. marines launched a surprise attack in August 1942 and took control of an air base under construction
Axis Powers (signers of the Tripartite Treaty)
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Co-signers of the Tripartite Treaty
- Bulgaria (March 1st, 1941)
- Hungary (November 20th, 1940)
- Romania (November 23rd, 1940)
- Slovakia(1) (November 24th, 1940)
The Allies
- Australia
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Czechoslovakia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- France
- Greece
- India
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Malta
- The Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- South Africa
- United Kingdom
- United States
- USSR
- Yugoslavia
and others.
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