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Get Wrecked for European History
1. SOOO in the time between WWI and WWII there sure was a lot of drama going on if you know what I mean. The first thing was, at the Paris Peace Conference at the end of WWI, the Britain and Freance and everyone against Germany was like "dude you gotta go and pay us back for that whole war" and Germany had no choice but to agree. Also Italy wasn't given all the land they were promised for stabbing Germany in the back but whatevs man we can get back to that. Now, along with war reparations, Germany wasn't supposed to have an army, militarize the Rhine, or go around invading and or annexing other countries because PEACE MY GUY. Well guess who took everything they said they'd do at that conference and threw it out the window? That's right! GERMANY!!! You see, Germany just went and got themselves a nice military and marched in that Rhineland and militarized the heck out of it! What did France do? They were just like "oh hm gosh you aren't supposed to do that can you maybe stop?" and Germany was like "no thanks my guy". They Germany invades Austria and decides to annex it and Chamberlain (Prime Minister of Britain) was like "oh hey that's cool good good". Basically the whole time Germany was going around breaking every single promise it made, Briatin and France just sat by and mumbled "ohh you probably shouldn't do that". Why? These hecks were way to scared of another war to stand up and fight. Then America was just chilling over on the other side of the Pacific once the war actually started. They decided to just send some funds every now and again instead of fighting because war looks bad and we really care about our image. So lots of people died until we were dagged into the war by Pearl Harbor. Pretty much, Britain and Frence thought that through appeasment (aka letting Germany be a bretty kid and give him whatever it wanted) they could avoid another war. Hahaha look how well that turned out, look at all the dead people.
Sources: A History of Western Society by McKay
2. So the axis powers had a ton of good times in the beginning of the war, and this was because 2/3 of the axis (Italy was pretty much a handicap) had some real good ideas. These ideas consisted of Geramny's blitzkrieg and Japan's taking over of a lot of the Pacific. First of all, ain't nobody in Europe seen this blitzkrieg that Germany thought up, it was totally spaghetti falling out of your pockets crazy. You see, the plan was to break though enemy lines by using short bursts of violence, speed, and surprise! Very different than what people were doing at that time, probably just fight until death, so that got a lot of German victories. The use of radios to keep everyone else in your regiment helped too, and tanks and better guns. Onto the Japanese, what they did was they done gone and invaded a heck ton of islands and stuff out in the Pacific and also quite a bit of the China. SunriseLand had done gone and turned itself into an empire and was ~loving it~. With all this exansion and wealth they gone and used they're advantage of the tons of islands they got scattered in the Pacific to their advantage. They used them for resources and vantage points.
Sources: A History of Western Society by McKay
3. While Germany was off with their lightening fighting and getting them major victories, Britain and the United States were getting pretty darn jealous. "I want to win battles too" they said. So what did they decide? The United States said "I'll make nuclear bombs, just in case." and they looked over at Germany. Also the United States was producing the most of everything, and had a heck ton of natural resources to put towards the war. Much much more than all the Axis had combined. Russia was always a pretty military focused country (when they werent starving) so yep. Then the Britain went and did their thing. The Big Three sure were great, with the United States and their atomic bombs and heck ton of resources, the Briatain and their stuff, and then Russia with their resources and military strategies.
Source: A History of Western Society by McKay
4. SO, during WWDeuces, Germany kinda had this thing with 'germans are the superior race' and something something. They were trying to make a single, super race called Aryan. How'd they do this? That's right it's the holocaust! But that was the final solution, it all started with some anti-Jewish propoganda. Also lot's of other propoganda for those non Jews such as.. the Gays, gypsies, disabled, and many many more!! They were all sent to concentration camps too! I suppose the place it first officially started was with the Nuremburg Laws, these made being Jewish and a citizen of Germany not able to happen! All Jews in Germany were no longer citizens and no longer having of Human Rights! Cool! And then these concentration camps later on, the Nazis sent innocent people there because they couldn't be part of their superior Aryan race so they must have to be killed apparently. And why not exploit them a bit first? At these camps, undesirables were all forced to work to death for the good of the country! Unless they were experimented on for the good of the country!!
Sources: A History of Western Society by McKay
