After World War I, people believed that there was no way that the world can plunge into war against each other once again. Unfortunately, as they found out a few decades later, that was not the case. War reparations that Germany was forced to pay after WWI tanked their economy, as well as the Great Depression that affected everyone else. It hit Germany the hardest and they were forced to somehow find a way out of debt. Because of this, Germany was weakened politically and emotionally, and a person like Adolf Hitler was easily able to persuade the people that he will make Germany the best nation in the world, as well as the rise of his Third Reich. Separately, Japan and Italy wanted to also become powerful nations and hypothetically rule the world, but needed help in achieving that goal, so they allied with Nazi Germany in order to form the Axis of Power. The opposition to the Axis was called the Allies, and they are mainly led by the United State, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. As time passed, WWII would become the bloodiest battle of all time, casualties as high as 70 million, about 30 million more than at the end of WWI (Cole, 700-705). After WWI, Germany began to change by adopting …show more content…
D-Day, or also called Operation Overlord, was the largest scaled invasions that pitted the Allied forces versus Germany. The battle started in the early morning of June 6th, 1944 on the shores of Normandy, France. Over 150 thousand Allied troops parachuted or landed on those beaches in order to fight the Germans. What was notable were the sheer odds that of the Germans won that battle on the beach, the war would have been achieved by the Axis nations, the reason being that it was a such a large scale invasion, that it would have devastating to the Allies’ moral and infantry size. The battle was won eventually by the Allied forces by winning key towns like Caen and taking control of the 5 main beaches (Class Notes,