It seems that some of you people need to get some of your history right, I as possibly many other people who posted so far, am a complete history freak, love it, and I love to watch the history channel. Anyways, lets start with the basics shall we? It all basically started because britan and france failed to stop hitler at the beginning, after giving him back some of his territory, he then went and pulled a blitzkreig on poland, which if you didnt know, atm Russia and germany had a cease fire pact, and shared poland in halfs at the time. After the invasion of poland Britan and france declared war, which btw got ALOT of countries out of depression if you didnt know, anyways after they took poland and various other countries that hitler believed belonged to him, he immediately went thru belgium, straight into france, pushing them out. France immediatley surrenders, so hitler moves onto Russia. Now if you know your history.. your a fool to invade russia.. y? the cold weather of course! Even though half of Russia was taken during the war, it is a fact that without russia we probably wouldntve won the war. Russia was KEY because if they DIDNT take out russia, then after britan and others got into france, they would have their asses a two front war, and according to all known records, no country has even been able to handle a two front war, just not possible. Now as for pearl harbor, yes we did have a warning but I dont ever recall in any history movie, video, book, or site, that they had any ACTUAL date in which it would happen, they just knew something would happen sometime. Originally the US wouldve gotten a warning just minutes before the attack, but the translation and the paper was VERY late to its destination, so really the president got the letter from japan AFTER they had attacked. Now obviously the ships at pearl harbor couldntve taken an attack by sea, but their was another fleet coming in very soon to help them out. The whole war with japan completely turned around on the Battle Of Midway, that was then when basically, the japanese navy was destroy, it was an all Air battle, no ship ever made contact. Now the reason why we bombed japan was for obviously, lives, in order to get into the heart of japan they would have to take out a key island, Okanowa, that wouldve costed 1 million american lives, not exactly a smart thing to do. So, we bombed Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, with warnings of course, but did you know we werent originally going to bomb Nagasaki? We actually had a choice between 5 different cities to bomb, but the problem was, the damn clouds. After the defeat of japan america actually got into the war over in europe, btw do not say americans did jack shit til japan attacked, they sent PLENTY of arms n such to britan with boats. Oh yes and for anyone who doesnt know, britan was the first to come out with RADAR, thats how they were able to attack hitlers air b4 it hit them( I wouldve used leuftwafe but im probly spelling it wrong), anyways Then came the invasion of Normandy, took place on June 6th, originally set for june 5th but cancelled due to bad weather, also named Operation D-Day. This was the key ending point for the war in europe, many soldiers from many countries died(life expectency was 7-10 seconds about). Russia was finally turning the tide of battle, making it a double front war again, as britan and american soldiers, plus others, marched towards Germany. Due to the fact that germany was going to lose, and that hitler had syphilis, he killed himself, germany was captured, and thats basically the war summed up. All together, I say all countries pulled their equal weight in this war, well.. maybe russia did a bit more... stalingrad was pretty horrible.., anyways thats about all id like to say for now, the history channel is good for u, watch it ^^.
