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The end of World War II in Asia occurred on 14 and 15 August 1945, when armed forces of the Empire of Japan surrendered to the forces of the Allied Powers. The surrender came just over three months after the surrender of the Axis forces in Europe.

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9. Who were the leaders of the major countries involved in WWII?

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9. Who were the leaders of the major countries involved in WWII?

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France : Charles de Gaulle
Britain : Winston Churchill
USA : Harry S. Truman
USSR : Joseph Stalin
Germany : Adolf Hitler
Italy : Benito Mussolini
Japan : Hideki Tojo

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8. Why did Europe declare war on Germany? 

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8. Why did Europe declare war on Germany? 

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In 1939 Britain and France declare war on Germany. Britain and France are at war with Germany following the invasion of Poland two days ago. At 1115 BST the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, announced the British deadline for the withdrawal of German troops from Poland had expired. The first casualty of that declaration was not German—but the British ocean liner Athenia which was sunk by a German U-30 submarine that had assumed the liner was armed and belligerent. There were more than 1,100 passengers on board, 112 of whom lost their lives.

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The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis. Something similar happened on November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as Kristallnacht, Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.

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6. Describe the military strategies of the Germans, Russians, Americans and Japanese. 

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6. Describe the military strategies of the Germans, Russians, Americans and Japanese. 

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Blitzkrieg operations were very effective during the campaigns of 1939–1941. The concepts of Blitzkrieg form the basis of present-day armored warfare. Leapfrogging (also called island hopping) was a military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during WW2

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5. What is “a day that will live in infamy?”

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5. What is “a day that will live in infamy?”

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- This set of words implies that a day will be remembered and welll known for a long period of time.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt said this after hearing of the attacks on Pearl Harbor from the Empire of Japan.
- Another day that will also live in infamy of the United States would be the 9-11 attacks set by Osama Bin Ladens extremists.

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4. What were the major turning points in WWII?

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4. What were the major turning points in WWII?

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- There were multiple major turning points in WWII.
- One is the Battle of Britain where Hitler attempted to invade Great Britain. The German air force bombed Britain, but Hitler later called of this attack.
- There was also the battle of Midway where the Japanese planned to attack an island 1,500 miles west of Hawaii. Japanese fought for a good 6 months losing nearly 24,000 men causing them to abandon.
- In the Battle of Stalingrad German forces bombed the city. Soviet forces then cut off German supplies killing off many Germans due to frostbite and starvation.
- In the battle of the Bulge Germans created a "bulge" around the forest pushing through the american defensive line.

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3. Define the Nuremberg trials and explain their significance.  What was the international military tribunal?

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3. Define the Nuremberg trials and explain their significance.  What was the international military tribunal?

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- The Nuremberg trials was simply an attempt to deal with war crimes during WWII. This was significant because many leaders created harsh war crimes and thought they could get away with it.
- The international military tribunal represented 23 nations which put Nazi war criminals on trial.
- 22 of the 23 Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes for the mass killing of around 11 million people.

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2. In what ways did Japan show aggression during WWII?

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2. In what ways did Japan show aggression during WWII?

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- Japanese also showed aggression during WWII in a multitude of ways.
- First is the Bataan Death March. Here they treated captured soldiers harshly by making them march 50 miles. If they were to resist, they were punished.
- There is also the rape and massacre of Nanking. Japanese troops brutally murdered and raped residents with approximately 50,000-300,000 deaths.
- Japan also invades Manchuria. They send troops and attack the area, taking over.

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1. In what ways did Germany show aggression during WWII?  

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1. In what ways did Germany show aggression during WWII?  

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cc- Germany showed aggression during WWII through the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Rhineland.
- In doing such actions, they broke the rules of the treaty of Versailles
- However European countries such as Britain and France did not want to bring a second world war so they gave in to Hitlers wishes and gave him the land like the Sudetenland.
- They also showed aggression towards the Jewish people by sending them to camps and intoxicating them with poisonous gasses. This was known as the Holocaust.