WW2 - OverSimplified (Part 2)

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what else is happening well

when I said britain was all alone that wasn't entirely true many

Commonwealth nations and other allied colonies had joined the war in Britain support they

would play a key role throughout the war particularly

in the African and Italian

campaigns on the axis side Germany

Italy and Japan signed

a defensive tripartite pact bringing their military lines even closer together the

soviet union's war against finland should have been an easy victory but it became

a humiliating struggle and their military ineptitude

was put on full display in

the end they did force the Finns to sue for peace then

they continued their honorable campaign

of pushing around much smaller countries by annexing the baltic states and part of

northern Romania france's colonies in Equatorial

Africa were like heck no we aren't going to join the Germans and they

all pledged their allegiance to

free France except for Gabon which had to be taken by military force the

Allies also tried to capture the strategic port

of the car but that ended in failure Mussolini

had seen Hitler's successes

and he thought now it was Italy's time to shine so he tried to

take British Somaliland and

that went pretty well then he tried to take Egypt and that went less

well then he tried to take Greece and that went

really badly Churchill began referring to Italy as Europe's soft underbelly

he began favoring a military campaign from the south and started sending British troops

to Greece all of this had Hitler pretty concerned and he moved to protect

his southern flank he had been getting friendly with hungry and twisted the arm

into signing the tripartite pact and joining the Axis powers Romania

was also eager to join for protection against the Soviet Union the tripartite pact

was designed to prevent any other countries from deciding to join the Allies specifically

Britain's old ally the pesky United States of America when war first broke out

American public opinion was strongly against joining in in 1940

there was an election the Republican

candidate said I will not send any young Americans to die in Europe and

sitting president Franklin D Roosevelt said

I will also not send any young Americans to die in Europe unless

I have to then

I might and Roosevelt

won Churchill asked him to join the war Roosevelt

said no can do Winston but you know what here

have some weapons America

began supplying the Allies with food and munitions

but there was one problem German

u-boats were sinking thousands of Allied supply ships in the Atlantic including

American ones if the Germans could sever Britain's supply line the UK would starve

throughout the war the Allies had to come up with better technology

to fight the u-boats improved radar aircraft

with longer range better weaponry and convoy tactics at one point a man even

called a meeting and said pykrete it takes him would you take some ice

you put them together you get pykrete and then he pulled out a gun

and shot some wooden it shattered and then he shot some pykrete and the

bullet ricocheted off that hit someone else in the conference room

then they tried to make a pykrete aircraft

carrier but that idea was scrapped because that's a really dumb idea in the

Alan Turing and his team of code breakers cracked Germany's Enigma code and the

u-boats gradually became less and less of a threat back in Africa Britain

decided to push Italy out of Egypt hey that was pretty easy so they

kept going Hitler realized he was going to have to finally step in and

do something he went to Bulgaria Yugoslavia and said hey I'm gonna move troops

through you to get to Greece so either join us or you

know be invaded Bulgaria

opted to join them Yuka Slavia opted to be invaded then Greece finally fell

to the joint German Italian

invasion the British had moved troops from North Africa to fight in Greece which

helped Rommel and his tank divisions push the British back to Egypt and they

could have kept going but a small mostly Australian

force held out under siege for eight months into birth denying the Germans a

strategic port city and disrupting

their supply line despite having some success in the Middle East the British didn't

seem like any real threat for now Hey

Soviet Union look out

with three million troops Hitler launched the largest ground invasion in history and

Stalin was far from ready both

Churchill and Roosevelt had warned him of an impending attack but he dug his

head in the sand and the Soviets didn't stand a chance Germany made staggering

progress with huge encircling

movements capturing mind-boggling numbers of Russian troops a quarter million a paella stock Minsk

300,000 at Smolensk nearly

700,000 at Kiev and again at V asthma and brines

Leningrad was put under a siege that would last and insufferable

for years the invasion of Russia had been Hitler's main ideological

goal from the beginning and is hatred for the ethnic people's there was now

unleashed in all its fury the Eastern Front of the Second World War was

brutal for all that endured it the Germans were now inside of Moscow and

that's it it's all over but then it

it got cold stupid

cold Hitler had hoped the Soviets would give up before winter

but they kept fighting his commanders came to him and said can we please

dig in for the winter and wait until spring no

keep going but oil is literally freezing inside our vehicles that's fine keep going

we're having to leave the corpses of our frozen horses by the side of

the road so we can still find a way in the snowdrift perfectly

normal keep going Hitler hadn't given his millions of men winter clothing and supplies

because he thought he really should have won by now then Stalin called in

troops from the Siberian front specially

trained to fight in the extreme cold and the Germans were no match they

were now being pushed back they had no choice but to dig in and

wait for winter to end

Germany's victories were staggering and Japan was eager not to miss the victory bus

their war in China had come to a standstill but they wanted to keep

expending the sphere of influence and getting the sweet sweet raw materials

they began making plans to expand southwards

but there was a problem Southeast

Asia was heavily colonized by America

and Great Britain it was also full of potion

ocean mint naval combat and there was no way the Japanese Navy could stand

up to the US and the UK so

they thought wouldn't it be nice if we could destroy their navies before

we begin our conquest and so

it was on December

7 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise air raid on the US Pacific Fleet

at Pearl Harbor and inflicted a huge amount of damage they also attacked British

colonies in Southeast Asia Roosevelt

had no choice but to declare war on Japan and so did Churchill Hitler

then declared war on America even

though he totally didn't have to the attack on Pearl Harbor seemed

like a big Japanese victory but they didn't attack any of the naval or

Perry fuel storage tanks or the submarine base meaning the Pacific Fleet would be

up and running again pretty soon in the meantime though the Japanese were able

to begin their conquest they took Guam the Gilbert Islands Wake Island Hong Kong

in the Philippines be forced Thailand to join them so they can March their

troops through to Malaya they swept through Singapore North

Borneo the East Indies New Guinea the Solomons

and they were now threatening northern Australia

and the borders of India Japan's victory had been as staggering

as the Germans and re-enforced the Japanese idea that this was a divine war

which they were destined to win but their victories had been based on speed

not power and power would

eventually catch up with them

for now though in all occupied

nations the people suffered persecution

forced labor harsh punishments

for any who spoke out against their occupiers in Europe the Nazis were rounding

up ethnic minorities and other unwanted groups and individuals

in particular millions of Jewish people would suffer through the terrible events of the

Holocaust brave resistance movements

rose up in defiance of their invaders well

the people held out for hope and hope

was coming winter was over and Hitler could continue his push eastward but

this time he switched off his strategy he wanted to focus on the south

his plan was to cut off the Russian armies in the Caucasus

an area full of oil and then invade the Caucasus and take all the

oil his forces moved across the north with ease and Hillier got cocky he

rerouted the fourth Panzer army south early

leaving the 6th army to complete the encircling movement alone to do so the

sickle army had to reach and take the key Soviet city of Stalingrad

the Russians defended it fiercely

and Stalingrad saw some of the harshest fighting of the entire war the Soviets

held up the German advance for five months as they battled in the war-torn

city which bought them valuable

time when the Germans had first launched their invasion a year earlier the Soviets

had moved their factories to the east those

factories had been building a but ton of tanks and aircrafts and getting the

Soviet army to scratch now it

was ready Stalin gathered his new and improved forces around the city and in

an attack that resembled Hitler's own encirclement

tactics they began surrounding the 6th army Hitler's

commanders came to him and said hey maybe

we should retreat but Hitler said no no you

stay the entire stick the army was trapped and had to surrender with

complete air superiority the

Soviets started pushing westward for Stalin it was a resounding victory for

Hitler and absolute catastrophe things

also weren't looking too good for Hitler elsewhere with America now and the war

allied bombing over German cities reached devastating

levels in Africa the British had pushed Rommel back again then they were pushed

back again and finally after a decisive battle at El Alamein and with American

and British troops arriving

in the West the Germans and Italians were squeezed out of Africa Japan was

also already seeing its rapid success being turned around they attempted to take the

island of Midway but the US Navy was ready for the attack and they

sank Japan's carrier actually

they sent a lot of them it was a battle from which the Japanese

Navy would never recover British

Indian and Chinese troops held the line in the harsh jungle terrain of Burma

and the Japanese suffered losses in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea they began

to realize they were not invincible with

the axis Out of Africa the

Allies had to decide their next move Churchill

still wanted to attack from the south while the Americans prefer to fool sea

invasion in northern France all right said the Americans will do it your way

Allied forces successfully landed in Sicily and began moving north they also carried out

bombing raids over Rome the thing was many of the people in Sicily had

relatives living in America and they greeted the American troops quite warmly with the

war reaching home territory most

Italians just weren't that into it and Mussolini

was suddenly very unpopular he was voted out by his own fascist grand council

and was toppled from power Italy

immediately began negotiations for surrender Hitler

wasn't surprised and had already sent reinforcements

southward in an operation he ironically called Operation

access German troops quickly disarmed

Italian troops in the north the Allies continued fighting the Germans up through Italy

but then winter set in meaning mud and everything slowed

to a halt all right said the Americans let's do it our way as

well Germany had made itself a lot of enemies and millions of Allied troops

had been gathering in England as factories worked around the clock producing

the war materiel needed for a super crazy massive the likes of which the

world has never seen before invasion

of Europe the Germans knew in allied invasion would come but they didn't know

where it would land thanks to Allied deception tactics they thought there was a

pretty good chance it would come a Calais but the Allies were really gonna

land in Normandy because I was less fortified and the beaches were nicer under

the careful planning of General Dwight Eisenhower the

invasion that had been long in the making was

just about ready to go just one thing was preventing the launch the British

weather while everyone sat around waiting for a decent day and then it came

on the night of June 5th over a thousand bombers took off the rated

coastline defenses while paratroopers

were dropped inland in a bit of a chaotic operation

tasked with sabotaging defenses

and capturing key bridges to stop any German reinforcements

from reaching the beaches early the next morning the barrage came as Allied ships

fired a huge number of shells at the German fortifications and

then the landings the Americans at Utah and Omaha the British had golden sword

and the Canadians at Juno it was a tremendous

struggle with a great loss of life particularly

at Omaha but the Allied troops captured the beaches and the landings were success

then they began their movements inland they took the port of Sher Berg and

the city of Qom the Americans move south to capture Brittany then in a

massive disaster for the Germans British and Canadian troops from the north and Americans

from the south trapped a German Seventh Army in a near wipeout encircling movement

in August Allied troops landed in the South of France too little resistance

on one beach all they found was a French man handing out champagne Paris

was liberated and the Germans were pushed out of France as the Allies entered

Belgium in the Far East the ally started to push the Japanese out of

Burma as the Americans launched a two-pronged offensive in the Pacific in the south

General MacArthur led the push to liberate the Philippines while

General Nimitz oversaw the brutal island-hopping campaign American

forces had to make hard-fought landing after a hard-fought landing on fiercely

defended small islands as they moved steadily towards

the Japanese mainland the Japanese

belief that the greatest thing a person could do was to die in battle

and the most dishonorable act was to surrender

as a result they fought ferociously to

the very end and the closer the Americans got to the mainland the more

ferocious the resistance became in February 1945

the Americans captured the island of Iwo Jima and an intense fire bombing campaign

of Japan's wooden cities began the

ally suffered some setbacks trying

to liberate the Netherlands but they were making progress and were now threatening the

industrial heartland of Germany

Hitler's health both mentally and

physically was rapidly deteriorating

things were looking bad and he was desperate he said we need to turn

this thing around and I've just the trick remember

a few years back when we blitzkrieg through the our den and trapped the

Allied forces in Belgium well I'm gonna do the exact same thing again

he gathered his forces and

tried to pound them through the our den he used up the remainder of

Germany's strength and resources and he managed to create quite a nice bulge he

also trapped some American forces in the Belgian town of Bastogne the

Germans sent the trapped Americans a message saying surrender

or be annihilated when it was read out commanding officer he said they

wanted surrender no sir they want us to surrender

nuts and that's what they sent off as their official reply General

Patton's Third Army then managed to break the seats from the Southwest

and the Germans were pushed back Hitler's

last-ditch attempt had failed of

what followed was a total collapse of the German forces the Allies pushed into

Germany from both sides the Soviet Union took Warsaw and kept pushing to Berlin

in his bunker Hitler realized all hope was lost Berlin

fell and with it Hitler's dreams of a great German Empire two of the

Axis nations had been knocked out one

to go the Americans began their assault on Okinawa

the last island before they would reach the Japanese mainland the desperate Japanese fought

hard launching kamikaze attacks on the US ships the citizens of Okinawa suffered through

the terrible fighting but in two months the

island was captured the Allies now had to make a choice either

continued the devastating struggle up the Japanese mainland

or they could try to coerce the Japanese into surrendering now in July the

first successful atomic bomb test took place in New Mexico and the destructive weapon

was ready for use America

and the UK were also seeing the Soviet Union not so much liberating

as occupying its captured territories

and so they wanted to put on a show of force on August

6th the a bomb fell on Russia

then on the 9th

Nagasaki the cities were reduced to rubble and for

the people living there it

was a terrible fate but for the Allies it achieved their main aim in

September the Emperor announced Japan's surrender saying

the war situation has developed not

necessarily to Japan's advantage

after six years war

was finally over the Allies occupied Japan for eight years the

Emperor was allowed to keep his position but General MacArthur made sure this picture

was printed in the Japanese

press to display to the Japanese people that their emperor was not the divine

powerful being they had believed Germany

was divided between America

the UK France and the Soviet Union in 1949

the Allied sectors were united into West Germany the Second World War had

been more terrible and destructive

than the first in its

aftermath two major superpowers with two very different ideologies

had come out victorious and

the tension between the two of them would create a new kind of war

a very very cold

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