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The attack on Pearl Harbor ended American
depression. It also ended the effects of
the Great Depression, because American
industry went into full production to support are troops [ -
Hitler turned
Germany into a military dictatorship. He
said that the Germans were a superior race,
and that many others including Jews, Slavs,
Gypsies, and communists, should be oppressed,
exiled, or worse. -
on September 1, 1939,
German tanks rolled into Poland.
scared by the invasion of Poland, Britain
and France declared war on Germany. But they
were not prepared for the speed and evilness of the Nazis. -
The United States’ entry into World War II
set everything in the country into motion.
Factories began running at full speed trying to produce enough war supplies for American troops going overseas. -
after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, even more people
were recruited or volunteered for the armed
forces. -
Factories were
booming, and the Allies began to do something
against the Germans shortly after the United
States entered the war. -
during D day The soldiers
had to jump out of their ships in waist deep water
and wade the 200 feet to shore, carrying their
heavy equipment.
Hundreds died before they could even fire a
shot. Most of the radios were destroyed in the
landing, so the men had no way of
communicating with other military units. -
Adolf Hitler killed himself in his
bunker in Berlin on April 30. The remaining
German forces surrendered on
May 8, 1945.
