User:Gvozdje

'World War II '

General

The Second World War was fought from 1939 to 1945. It started when Germany invade Poland in September 1939. The leader of Germany Adolf Hitler a Austrian-born German decided that he would conquer the world. He was determined to avenge the the German losses in the Grate War. In the invasion of Poland Hitler was supported buy many countries including the USSR, but these alliances would soon be broken. On December 7, 1941 the fate of the war was decided. On this day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor thus resulting in the American entering the war. The final string was set loose on the 6 of June 1944. On June 6, 1944 the allies launched a full out assault on Normandy labeled D day (Operation Overlord). The last enemy of the allies (the Japanese) were defeated after the 9th of August 1945. On the 8th and on the 9th of August 1945 two Japanese cities were bombed, Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the first two ever atomic bombs, little boy and fat man. The scientists behind the bombs was Robert Oppenheimer. One day after the bombing of Nagasaki on the 10 of August Japan finally surrenders. .

Participants in World War II

The Allies USSR, UK, USA, France Axis powers Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary, Holland, Romania and Bulgaria Other Most of other countries in the world.

Air plains Ari plain Where was it built Type of plain B-17 flying Fortress The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was a four-engine heavy bomber aircraft developed in the 1930s for the United States Army Air Corps Four-engine bomber P-51 Mustang The P-51 Mustang was developed in North America American long-range single-seat World War II fighter aircraft. P-59 Airacomet The Bell P-59 Air comet was developed in America. The P-59 Air comet was a WWII fighter. Martin B-26 Marauder

The Martin B-26 Marauder was a World War II twin-engine medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company. Used first by the American bomber in the Pacific. The Martin B-26 Marauder was a twin engine bomber P-38 Lightning The Lockheed P-38 Lightning was a World War II American fighter aircraft built by Lockheed The P-38 was a WWII fighter jet P-47 thunderbolt Republic Aviation's P-47 Thunderbolt, also known as the "Jug," was the largest, heaviest, and most expensive fighter aircraft in history to be powered by a single reciprocating engine.[ Fighter aircraft Super marine Spitfire The Super marine Spitfire was built in Brittan. The Super marine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft. MIG-15 The MIG-15 was developed in the USSR. It was a fihter jet ariplain. Junkers Ju 87

The stuka was deigned in Grmany. Dive-bomber The A6M zero The zero was designed in Japan. Fighter jet

USS Enterprise

USS Enterprise (CV-6), colloquially referred to as the "Big E," was the sixth aircraft carrier of the United States Navy and the seventh U.S. Navy ship to bear the name. She was launched in 1936 and played a withal roll in the fight against the Japanese navy in the Pacific Ocean in World War II.

Enterprise entered the Second World War on the morning of December 7, 1941, when her scout planes encountered the Japanese squadrons attacking Pearl Harbor. Not until May 14, 1945, when a Kamikaze attack off Kyushu, Japan, left a gaping hole in her flight deck, was she forced to leave the war. For Enterprise, 1942 began much as 1941 had ended, as she patrolled the western approaches to the Hawaiian Islands and periodically returned to Pearl Harbor for supplies, frustrating both brown shoes and bluejacket alike. Enterprise sailed south on a shakedown cruise which took her to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After her return she operated along the east coast and in the Caribbean until April of 1939 when she was ordered to duty in the Pacific. Based first on San Diego and then on Pearl Harbor, the carrier trained herself and her aircraft squadrons for any eventuality, and carried aircraft among the island bases of the Pacific. Enterprise had just completed one such mission, delivering Marine Corps Fighter Squadron 211 to Wake Island on 2 December 1941, and was en route to Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.

The invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign or 1939 Defensive War in Poland and the Poland Campaign in Germany, was an invasion of Poland by Germany, the Soviet Union, and a small Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War II. The invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, and ended 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union dividing and annexing the whole of Poland. The invasion of Poland was very short because of the heavy support Hitler had by the Soviet Union. D day

D day also known as operation overlord was a allayed invasion of Normandy. It took a lot of preparing an planing. The allays were able to trick the Germans into thinking that day were going to attack Point du Hock. The attack was spreed across five beaches (Omaha, Gold, Jute, A few hours before the invasion started the allays sent a group of soldiers to destroy six German artillery guns which were threatening the invasion. The soldiers destroyed the artillery guns successfully. At 6:30am on the 6 of June 1944 the allays sent the first Wave of solders to the five beaches. The biggest casualties were on Omaha beach. Despite the allayed attempts to trick the Germans their solders met with heavy German resistance on Omaha and Gold beaches. Despite the casualties on Omaha beach the allays bushed throw the withe the attack. In order for the attack to work Omaha beach must be taken, because it controlled three routs that connected the five beaches. The attack was a success but he casualties were massive. The allays had lost over 6000 solders.

Pearl Harbor

Objectives

The attack had several major aims. First, it intended to destroy important American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya. Second, it was hoped to buy time for Japan to consolidate its position and increase its naval strength before shipbuilding authorized by the 1940 Vinson-Walsh Act erased any chance of victory. Finally, it was meant to deliver a severe blow to American morale, one which would discourage Americans from committing to a war extending into the western Pacific Ocean and Dutch East Indies. To maximize the effect on morale, battleships were chosen as the main targets, since they were the prestige ships of any navy at the time. The overall intention was to enable Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference. Striking the Pacific Fleet at anchor in Pearl Harbor carried two distinct disadvantages: the targeted ships would be in very shallow water, so it would be relatively easy to salvage and possibly repair them; and most of the crews would survive the attack, since many would be on shore leave or would be rescued from the harbor. A further important disadvantage—this of timing, and known to the Japanese—was the absence from Pearl Harbor of all three of the U.S. Pacific Fleet's aircraft carriers (Enterprise, Lexington, and Saratoga). Ironically, the IJN top command was so imbued with Admiral Mahan's "decisive battle" doctrine—especially that of destroying the maximum number of battleships—that, despite these concerns, Yamamoto decided to press ahead. Japanese confidence in their ability to achieve a short, victorious war also meant other targets in the harbor, especially the navy yard, oil tank farms, and submarine base, could safely be ignored, since—by their thinking—the war would be over before the influence of these facilities would be felt.[

Bombing of Tokyo 1942

The bombing of Tokyo in 1942 carried out by the B-25 Mitche was given a go ahead by president Roosevelt him self. The Americans bombed Tokyo in April devastated the Japan's moral.

The Battle of Guadacanal

The Japanese defeat at the Battle of Midway had forced planners in the Imperial Army to reconsider their plans of expansion and to concentrate their forces on consolidating the territory that they had captured. The victory at Midway was also a turning point for the Americans as after this battle, they could think in terms of re-capturing taken Pacific islands - the first confrontation was to be at Guadalcanal. Guadalcanal is part of the Solomon Islands which lie to the north-eastern approaches of Australia. Though it is a humid and jungle-covered tropical island its position made it strategically important for both sides in the Pacific War. If the Japanese captured the island, they could cut off the sea route between Australia and America. If the Americans controlled the island, they would be better able to protect Australia from Japanese invasion and they could also protect the Allied build-up in Australia that would act as a springboard for a major assault on the Japanese. Hence the importance of the island. In Japan, they were divided thoughts as to the importance of the island. Many senior army figures believed that Japan should consolidate what it had and that the army itself was already over-stretched policing its vast empire. The hierarchy in the Japanese Navy disagreed. They believed that any halt to an advance would be seen as a sign of weakness that the Americans would exploit. While the Japanese appeared invincible on the advance, American confidence had to be diluted - so they argued. The Japanese Navy won the argument and the Imperial General Headquarters ordered an attack on the Solomon Islands with the view to establishing naval and army bases there. By the end of May 1942, the Japanese had landed men at Guadalcanal.

Bombing of Hiroshima

The Americans bombed Hiroshima with the first atomic bomb. The bombed was called Little Boy. Little boy was dropped by the Enola Gay. During the last part of World War Two it was the first air craft to drop a atomic bomb. The Enola Gay was a specially adapted B-29 Supper-Fortress. On August the 6 1945 the Enola Gay was loaded with the atomic bomb, but the bomb was not activated on land. The bomb’s wires were activated in the air, to prevent the bomb exploding during loading. The atomic bomb was dropped on Monday August the 8. The atomic bomb detonated just as planed. It detonated just a few hundred meters from Hiroshima. The little boy was fallowed by another atomic bomb called Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki.

Axis Powers mistakes The attack on Perl Harbor The Italian early exit in the war The bombing of the Italian navy after the exit The unpreparedness on D-day Not abandoning the North African campaign

USS Washington (BB-56) Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

Washington departed the navy yard on 23 August with an escort of three destroyers. She sailed south to the Panama Canal and traversed the locks on 28 August. Once through, she continued west into the Pacific, arriving offNukualofa, the capital of Tonga, on 14 September. She was chosen by Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee, Jr. to be his flagship. Washington was assigned to Task Force 17, based around the aircraft carrier Hornet, on the 15th. Along with various other ships, Washington operated out of Nouméa and Espiritu Santo and took part in various elements of the Solomon Islands campaign, including protecting the convoys moving needed materiel to the Battle of Guadalcanal, until early November. By this time, the naval outlook for the Allies in the Pacific was poor. With the torpedoing of Wasp by I-19 and the loss of Hornet, only one carrier, Enterprise was available. In addition, the Japanese were using their naval night-fighting prowess to great effect by sending heavy warships to shell Henderson Field while light forces would run supplies to beleaguered soldiers on Guadalcanal. After the Japanese army was repulsed during the Battle for Henderson Field, reinforcements were needed, so Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto loaded eleven transports with members of the Japanese 38th Infantry Division and put together a support force that included the rebuilt Kongo-class battleships Kirishima and Hiei. The latter group was to neutralize Henderson Field so that the slower transports could reach Guadalcanal. During the first attempt to accomplish this, made on the night of 12/13 November, the support force destroyed or damaged nearly every ship of an American task force of five cruisers and eight destroyers under Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan, but then turned and retreated, losing Hiei to American aircraft on the 13th. Running low on available undamaged ships, South Dakota and Washington, along with the destroyers Walke, Benham, Preston, and Gwin, were dispatched from Nouméa.