Blitzkrieg In World War II

In September 1939, Germany used blitzkrieg to attack Poland. Blitzkrieg, also known as the “lightning war”, was a German military strategy in World War II that consisted of high speed attacks by airplanes along with tanks to destroy German victims. The Nazis damaged a lot of Poland’s largest cities and bombed the civilian population. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President of the United States during the beginning of World War II, believed that the military tactics of the Nazis were horrible and wanted to stop it. Once the United States entered the war in December 1941, because of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelts plan was rejected by the Axis Powers. Since Hitler and the Nazis were not stopped, they began to create more military strategies including submarine attacks throughout the Atlantic Ocean. The military tactics that the Germans created
The United States took China’s side in this war because of the increasingly high economic stake in China. After invading China and parts of Korea, Japan started moving towards the United States while continuing to invade islands along the war. Japan invaded the Philippines, Saipan, Guam, and many other islands. On December 7, 1941, Japan bombed a United States naval base on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After the attack, the United States immediately joined the war. They began setting up bases for long-range bombing against Japanese cities. The houses in Japan were wooden and resulted in firestorms after bombs. On one island of Japan, Iwo Jima, United States marines encountered the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history while fighting the Japanese. After the fight on Iwo Jima, Okinawa was targeted. During the war in Okinawa, 185,000 Japanese troops died and 12,500 United States soldiers died. The Japanese created a new tactic which involved the Japanese kamikaze who loaded planes with explosives and crashed them into the United States ships and