World War II Alliances - (19391945) Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary,

Romania, Bulgaria) versus Allies (U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil,
Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South
Africa, Yugoslavia).
The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942
declaration, were the countries that together opposed theAxis powers during the Second
World War (19391945). The Allies promoted the alliance as seeking to stop German,
Japanese and Italian aggression.
The anti-German coalition at the start of the war (1 September 1939) consisted of
France, Poland and Great Britain, soon to be joined by the British Commonwealth
(Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa).[1] Poland was a minor factor after its
defeat in 1939; France was a minor factor after its defeat in 1940. After first
having cooperated with Germany in partitioning Poland whilst remaining neutral in the
Allied-Axis conflict, the Soviet Union perforce joined the Allies in June 1941 after
being invaded by Germany. The United States provided war material and money all
along, and officially joined in December 1941 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
As of 1942, the "Big Three" leaders of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the
United States controlled Allied policy; relations between the United Kingdom and the
United States were especially close. China had been already at war with Japan since
1937 but officially joined the Allies in 1941. The Big Three and China were referred as a
"trusteeship of the powerful",[2] then were recognized as the Allied "Big Four"
in Declaration by United Nations[3] and later the "Four Policemen" of "United Nations" for
the Allies. Other key Allies included British India, the Netherlands, and Yugoslavia as
well as Free France; there were numerous others. Together they called themselves the
"United Nations" and in 1945 created the modern UN.[4]
World War 2 (1939 - 1945)

World War ll
One of the most gruesome Wars of all time, World War 2 is best known for the bombing
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the United States and the Holocaustthe genocide of six
million European Jews by Nazi Germany. However, there do exist several facts about it
which continue to elude most of the people out there. World War 2 was fought between
two military alliances: the Allies, which comprised the Soviet Union, United States of
America, United Kingdom, and other nations, and the Axis, made up of Germany, Japan,
Italy, etc.

The war began on September 1, 1939, when the German forces invaded Poland, and in
retaliation, France and other European nations attacked Germany. It went on for six
years before culminating with a victory for the Allies on September 2, 1945. By then
though, the damage was already done and the effects of this six-year-long conflict had
become more than obvious. It took a long time for the affected countries to recover.

What Were the Causes of World War 2?

*World War I and the Treaty of Versailles
There were numerous causes, but the most important cause was World War 1 itself.
After the First World War, various nations were divided into two groups: the Allied
(Entente) Powers, comprising France, British Empire, Russian Empire, United States of
America, etc., which won the war, and the Central Powers, which included the German
Empire, Austria-Hungary, etc. After the war, leaders representing the Big FourBritain,
France, Italy, and Russiamet at the Palace of Versailles, Paris, to decide the peace
terms. It was here that the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919.
The Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for the war and put certain military
restrictions on them. The motive was to handicap Germany to ensure that it would not
wage another war. They were also asked to pay a huge sum of money as a fine and
make substantial territorial concessions to the Allied Powers. The people of Germany
were not at all happy with the proceedings. The Treaty of Versailles didn't just affect the
economy of the country, but had also hurt the national pride. In Adolf Hitler, they saw
hope and brought him to power.

CAUSE and EFFECT

After World War I, Germany fell into a depression, which left the country ripe and
ready for a new government regime to come in. The Nazi Party filled that gap
and brought the country out of its depression. To do this, they put blame on
marginalized groups, such as Jewish and gay citizens. This was the beginning of
the Holocaust, and the Nazi Party eventually pushed out of the country into
surrounding nations, officially starting the war. There was also worldwide
depression, which gave rise to dictators in both Japan and Italy, the two other
main antagonists of the war.

After the war, the Allies split Germany into different territories for occupation.
Other Axis countries were occupied as well, but the German split is the best
known. The split between Western Germany, which was occupied by Western
European countries and the United States, and Eastern Germany, occupied by

Russia, was enforced by the Berlin Wall. This split was also the beginning of the
Cold War, during which the United States and Russia rushed to develop weapons
and space technology.

Western Europe was devastated because of the heavy bombings throughout the
war, and this led to a long period of rebuilding. The United States played a large
role in helping these countries rebuild.

World War 2 ended with the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. On 8
May 1945, the Allies accepted Germany's surrender, about a week after Adolf
Hitler had committed suicide. VE Day Victory in Europe celebrates the end of
the Second World War on 8 May 1945
Whose country was the first detonated a nuclear bomb in world war 2 ?
-The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec
Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of the World War II.
The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear
weapons for warfare in history.
In the final year of the war, the Allies prepared for what was anticipated to be a very
costly invasion of the Japanese mainland. This was preceded by a U.S. firebombing
campaign that obliterated many Japanese cities. The war in Europe had concluded
when Nazi Germanysigned its instrument of surrender on May 8, 1945. The Japanese,
facing the same fate, refused to accept the Allies' demands for unconditional surrender
and the Pacific War continued. Together with the United Kingdom and China, the United
States called for the unconditional surrender of the Japanese armed forces in
the Potsdam Declaration on July 26, 1945the alternative being "prompt and utter
destruction". The Japanese response to this ultimatum was to ignore it.
In July 1945, the Allied Manhattan Project successfully detonated an atomic bomb in
the New Mexico desert and by August had produced atomic weapons based on two
alternate designs. The 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces was
equipped with the specialized Silverplate version of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, that
could deliver them from Tinian in the Mariana Islands.
On August 6 the U.S. dropped a uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) on
Hiroshima. American President Harry S. Truman called for Japan's surrender 16 hours

later, warning them to "expect a rain of ruin from the air, the like of which has never been
seen on this earth." Three days later, on August 9, the U.S. dropped a
plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki. Within the first two to
four months of the bombings, the acute effects of the atomic bombings killed 90,000
146,000 people in Hiroshima and 39,00080,000 in Nagasaki; roughly half of the deaths
in each city occurred on the first day. During the following months, large numbers died
from the effect of burns, radiation sickness, and other injuries, compounded by illness
and malnutrition. In both cities, most of the dead were civilians, although Hiroshima had
a sizable military garrison.
On August 15, six days after the bombing of Nagasaki and the Soviet
Union's declaration of war, Japan announced its surrender to the Allies. On September
2, it signed the instrument of surrender, effectively ending World War II. The bombings'
role in Japan's surrender and their ethical justification are still debated.

where did the nuclear bomb come from world war 2?, who
agreed with the explosion of nuclear bombs?
-Shumshu Second Sino-Japanese War.

The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the
Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities
of Hiroshima and Nagasakiin August 1945, during the final stage of the World
War II.