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The Treat of Versailles was a peace treaty created by the french at the end of WWI to end the war between Germany and the other Axis powers. -
After Hitler was voted into power, he started the Holocaust (start of WW2) which is the greatest impact on WW2 because it lead to events that were an attempt to rise further in power. -
During the summer 1936 games, Hitler used this as an opportunity to "Return to the world after WWII defeat." (Quoted from PBS 1936 summer Olympics article) He wanted to show off Germany to the rest of the world. -
Germany invades Poland because Hitler wanted Germans to live there. He saw polish people as a workforce instead of others. The Nazis ended up killing over 65,000 Jewish and non Jewish polish people. -
This was the signing a document to create an alliance between 3 countries including Germany, Italy, and Japan. This pact was a goal to concur land across Europe, Asia, and Africa. -
In 1941 the Nazis began creating gas chambers at Auschwitz, one of the most well known concentration camps from the Holocaust and WWII. These chambers would fill with gas while many of their Jewish victims were inside, killing them all. -
Japan bombed pearl harbor to eliminate/destroy/weaken the US military which had the closest access to Japan. -
Many Japanese Americans had been sent to internment camps due to the fear of the Japanese attacking and or invading the united states after the bombing of pearl harbor. This was an anti-Japanese act, due to the devastation of pearl harbor. -
The Italians surrendered in 1943, the first of all of the axis powers, due to their declining economy. They also surrendered because their allies had placed air forces over Sicily and began to move over Italy. -
The US wanted to invade Iwo Jima to use the island as an airbase to attack japan's main islands. This ended up being one of the bloodiest battles in history. -
After soviet forces had entered Germany, Hitler committed suicide, which lead to the surrender of Germany. -
The bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was named "little boy" and weighed over 9,000 pounds with a diameter of only 28 inches. The US did this to get Japan to surrender and decrease the amount of US military deaths. -
The Atomic bomb dropped on nagasaki was the US's final attempt to get Japan to surrender -
Japan surrenders to their allies for a similar reason to why Germany surrenders. There were two main reasons they surrendered. For one, the soviet union had joined the war. And the second reason they surrendered was due to the threat of atomic bombs.