China fought in WW2 against Japan that had invaded its eastern portion in 1937. The scale of China's involvement in the war was massive. So was... View Article
Japan joined Germany in World War 2 for strategic reasons. It needed an alliance that could take on the United States, Britain and the Soviet... View Article
A combination of events such as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet Unions invasion of Manchuria forced Japan to... View Article
The United States entered the second World War following the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on 7 December 1941. Up until that... View Article
The five facts about World War 2 were as follows: In 1941, more than 3 million cars were manufactured in the US. Only 139 more were made during... View Article
India provided the largest volunteer army than among any other nation fighting in World War 2. The Indian Army during World War II was one of the... View Article
World War 2 was won by the Allies: Britain, Soviet Union, China, France and the United States of America. Despite the victory, rivalries between... View Article
World War 2 ended with the surrender of Germany to the Allies in May 1945 and the unconditional surrender in, August of that year,of Japan to... View Article
The 3 main causes of World War 2 were as follows: Rise of fascism in Europe Impact of the Treaty of Versailles following WWI in Germany The... View Article
World War 2 was started by Hitler when he invaded Poland in September 1939. France and Britain, who had guaranteed support to uphold Poland's... View Article
The reason why Franz Ferdinand was assassinated was that his death, as his assassins believed, wouldfree Bosnia of Austria-Hungarian rule and... View Article
While nationalism, imperialism and militarism were the underlying causes of World War 1, the overall cause was the assasination of Archduke Franz... View Article
Germany was blamed for starting World War 1. Although in technicality it was the Austrian declaration of war on Serbia that triggered WW1, all... View Article
Germany started World War 2 due to the following factors: The economic hardship that Germany suffered in the wake of World War I prompted its... View Article
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot by a Serb Bosnian student Gavrilo Princip. Gavrilo Princip was part of the Black Hand, a Serbian terrorist... View Article
The major events that happened in 1914 was the outbreak of World War I whose spark was ignited following the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand,... View Article
The three reasons World War I started was: Imperial rivalries between different empires: British, French, Russian vs German, Austrian, Ottoman... View Article
The first world war started when Austria declared war on Serbia. Russia, an ally of Serbia, declared war on Austria. Germany was Austria’s... View Article
The immediate cause of the 1st World War was the assasination of the heir to the Austrian-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.... View Article