world+war+II

World war II was started because Hitler started bombing Poland. And Japan bombed the states because they wouldn't give them anymore oil, everywhere started bombing everywhere and then they went to war. Germany lost 13% of its territory and all of its overseas colonies. in July 1937, Japan captured the former imperial capital of Beiping after instigating the Marco polo bridge incident which culminated in the Japanese campaign to invade all of China. On september 1, 1939, Germany and Slovakia, attacked Poland. France, Britian and the other countries, wanted war with Germany but didn't have very much military support to Poland, other than a small French attack into the Saarland. On September 17, 1939, after signing a form referring to arm with Japan, the soviets launched their own invasion of Poland. By early October, Poland was seperated among Germany, the Soviet Union, Lithuania and Slovakia, even though Poland didn't officially back out. The conflict ended in 1945. In June 1938 Chinese made stalled the Japanese improved by flooding the Yellow River; even though this manoeuvre bought time for the Chinese to prepare their defences at Wuhan, the city was gone by October. Anyways, Japanese military winners did not bring about the collapse of Chinese resistance that Japan had hoped to achieve, instead the Chinese government relocated to Chongqing to continue their resistance. In Europe, Germany and Italy were becoming stronger. In March 1938, Germany blew up Austria, again provoking not many responses from other European powers. Hitler began pressing german claims on the Sudetenland, an area of Czechoslovakia with a predominantly ethnic German population, France and Britain claimed this territory to him, against the wishes of Czechoslovak government, in exchange for a promise of no further territorial demands.



