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Historical Events In The 1900s

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In the earlier years of the 1900s many historical events took place such as World War I , the Great Depression, World War II and many others were a groundbreaking part of history that affected many lives. The main event I will be talking about throughout my report is World War II. It first began on September 1, 1939 and ended six years later, in 1945 around the same exact time. The event was set off from the previous one, World War I. The instability that occurred in Europe in 1914 set the point of another international War. Two decades later Hitler and his National Socialists rose to power, signing treaties with Italy and Japan to attempt to further their domination. Hitler invaded Poland in September of 1939 pushing Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, starting World War II. The conflict of that war ended up taking the lives of 45-60 million lives, …show more content…

Although he was young during World War II he still remembered parts of his childhood when the war was taking place. One thing he said he really remembered about it was that most of his and his brothers toys consisted of army trucks, tanks, toy guns and soldiers. He said their coloring books were all war and that they always wore out their green crayons first. They would always run outside to see the airplanes fly over. He said they would always fly over in squadrons, which are an operational unit in an air force consisting of two or more flights of aircraft. There were papers that got dropped from planes, he said they were called propaganda; which is information of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view that he said were about the war. For the high demand of army supplies at the time, Alan spoke about how he remembered seeing trucks and tanks that would be heading down to the Port of Oakland to be loaded onto ships to get sent off to

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