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You are here. The second world war had always been considered to be a fight against Nazism and Fascism which represented the unimaginable evils. More than 70 million lives were lost fighting for the cause including the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear bombing which resulted in the nuclear arms race. World War II was the last major war that involved the most powerful nations of the world.
Though the Nazi and Fascist powers were defeated for good, did this war produce any other positive outcome? The answer is a sobering no. World War II was a war that opposed the domination of fascism and Nazism that is best known for the concentration camps and genocide committed.
Paul Fussel, in his book Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War, in , said even those who fought the war "knew that in its representation to the laity what was happening to them was systematically sanitized and Norman Rockwellized, not to mention Disneyfied America has not yet understood what the Second World War was like and has thus been unable to use such understanding to reinterpret and redefine the national reality and to arrive at something like public maturity.
For example, the World War II brought in the air attacks that killed people without discrimination and resulted in the murder of millions of innocents and rendered an equal number homeless.
The assault on dwellings ranks as one of the great horrors of the way Terror and obliteration air raids were considered successful almost in proportion to the number of people who lost their homes.
After signing alliances with Italy and Japan against the Soviet Union , Hitler sent troops to occupy Austria in and the following year annexed Czechoslovakia. Hitler had long planned an invasion of Poland, a nation to which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it were attacked by Germany.
The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war on two fronts once he invaded Poland, and would have Soviet assistance in conquering and dividing the nation itself. On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. Under attack from both sides, Poland fell quickly, and by early Germany and the Soviet Union had divided control over the nation, according to a secret protocol appended to the Nonaggression Pact.
On April 9, , Germany simultaneously invaded Norway and occupied Denmark, and the war began in earnest. In fact, the Germans broke through the line with their tanks and planes and continued to the rear, rendering it useless. Hitler now turned his attention to Britain, which had the defensive advantage of being separated from the Continent by the English Channel. To pave the way for an amphibious invasion dubbed Operation Sea Lion , German planes bombed Britain extensively beginning in September until May , known as the Blitz , including night raids on London and other industrial centers that caused heavy civilian casualties and damage.
Arguments between Hitler and his commanders delayed the next German advance until October, when it was stalled by a Soviet counteroffensive and the onset of harsh winter weather. With Britain facing Germany in Europe, the United States was the only nation capable of combating Japanese aggression, which by late included an expansion of its ongoing war with China and the seizure of European colonial holdings in the Far East.
On December 7, , Japanese aircraft attacked the major U. Germany and the other Axis Powers promptly declared war on the United States. After a long string of Japanese victories, the U. Pacific Fleet won the Battle of Midway in June , which proved to be a turning point in the war.
On Guadalcanal, one of the southern Solomon Islands, the Allies also had success against Japanese forces in a series of battles from August to February , helping turn the tide further in the Pacific. In mid, Allied naval forces began an aggressive counterattack against Japan, involving a series of amphibious assaults on key Japanese-held islands in the Pacific.
The approach of winter, along with dwindling food and medical supplies, spelled the end for German troops there, and the last of them surrendered on January 31, She was specifically forbidden to photograph watchtowers, barbed-wire fences, armed guards, or other visual signs that the internees were being forced to relocate against their will.
Nevertheless, she did manage to produce moving photographs of Japanese families being removed from their homes, going through dehumanizing processing procedures, and living in converted horse stables. The relocation of Japanese Americans was brought about by the attack on Pearl Harbor and the suspicion that Americans of Japanese ancestry were likely to sympathize with their nation of origin and sabotage the American war effort, Gordon said.
Lange, whose sympathies were clearly with the evacuees, tried in her photographs to emphasize their respectability, their normalcy, and their devotion to American institutions like baseball and the flag.
Showing defeat and humiliation in wartime may be seen as an attack on masculinity. In the musical, Berlin brings together three seemingly disparate elements to create a rousing celebration of American values and a call to sacrifice for the war effort.
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