The Three Major Events Of World War II

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children,” stated former president Jimmy Carter at his Nobel Lecture. Most of the combat action of World War II occurred in Europe, East Asia, and the islands of the Pacific Ocean between September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. World War II was the bloodiest war in history that took approximately 70 million lives. Three major events that occurred during World War II were the Holocaust, D-Day, and the dropping of bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
To begin with, the first major event of World War II was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was Hitler’s “Final Solution” to exterminate the Jewish population because he believed they caused Germany to lose World War II. The “Final Solution” consisted of over 40,000 concentration camps set up to brutally murder and torture millions of Jews. Between January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945 the Holocaust eliminated about 16% of the Jewish population or 6 million Jews. I am angered at how the Germans dealt with their situation and committed these heinous crimes because they believed they were superior. I believe it is so wrong to discriminate against other human beings just because they are a different
D-Day occurred on June 6, 1944 when about 156,000 American, Canadian, and British forces landed on five beaches along France’s Normandy region. This battle was the largest amphibious attack in history that liberated Western Europe from Nazi Germany control. This landing caused the death of about 4,400 Allied soldiers and 4000 to 9000 German soldiers. D-Day is marked as the day that began the end of the Germans and Hitler. I am happy D-Day occurred because it stopped Germany and Hitler from winning the war. If the Hitler continued the war, who knows how our world would be