World Wars

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Wars of the 20th Century

Wars of the 20th century were fought for many reasons. Some for land, some for political power, and some to save a country from being overran. Wars are fought on many fronts. These can include terrain’s such as jungle, island, forests, cities, deserts, and in some cases even arctic climates. In the following paragraphs you will read about World War II (WWII), the Vietnam War, and Operation Desert Storm. They were fought for different reasons, but in the end it only comes down to one thing, the more powerful will emerge.
World War II started off because of Adolf Hitler’s need for power and hunger for more land. It started with him taking over Austria, then Czechoslovakia, and onto Poland. When Poland was attacked France and Great Britain declared war on Germany. This however led to France, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Norway being overran by the nazis by 1940. Great Britain on the other hand was not about to let Germany over run there country. Even with the countless air raids on English towns know as Blitz’s. by 1941 the U.S. still had not entered the war but that didn’t them from sending supplies to Allied countries to aid in the fighting. The U.S. was trying to stay out of the war but that all changed on December 7, 1941 when a horde of Japanese fighter planes bombed the Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. along with Canada and Great Britain declared war on Japan. Throughout the next few years the fighting turned in favor of the allies and on May 2, 1945 Germany surrendered. Only one problem Japan was being stubborn and would not surrender. The U.S. then resorted to a mass bomb they had been testing called the Atomic Bomb. This was used in august of 1945 on the cities of Hiroshima and then on Nagasaki, thus ending World War II.
The Vietnam War started in 1959 and was very different from World War II. Do to the fact that the U.S. did not send in full force....