1- And some scholars suggest WWII is actually a continuation of WWI, with a break in between.

2 -Others say it started when Japan invaded Manchuria on September 18, 1931.

3 Most historians agree that WWII began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.

4 Calvin Graham was only 12 years old when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He won a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart before the Navy found out how old he was.

5 If it became necessary to drop a third atom bomb on Japan, the city that would have been the target was Tokyo

6 Before Nazi Germany decided to eliminate the Jews by gassing them, it had considered sending them to the island of Madagascar.

7 The vast majority of German war criminals passed themselves off as refugees at displaced persons camps when the war ended, thereby gaining freedom.

8 The largest Japanese spy ring during WWII was not in the U.S. but in Mexico, where it spied on the U.S. Atlantic Fleet.

9 The greatest tank battle in history occurred between the Germans and Russians at the Kursk salient in Russia from July 4-22, 1943. More than 3,600 tanks were involved.

10 The Nazis killed millions of Poles. But they thought that some Polish babies and children looked German and kidnapped about 50,000 of them to be adopted by German parents

11 William Hitler, a nephew of Adolf Hitler, was in the U.S. Navy during WWII. He changed his name after the war

12 The Nazis pirated the Harvard “fight song” to compose their Sieg Heil march

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13 During WWII, hamburgers in the U.S. were dubbed “Liberty Steaks” to avoid the German-sounding name

14 More than 650,000 Jeeps were built during WWII. American factories also produced 300,000 military aircraft; 89,000 tanks; 3 million machine guns; and 7 million rifles

15 In 1941, a private earned $21 a month. In 1942, a private earned $50 a month.

16 The Air Force was part of the Army in WWII and didn’t become a separate branch of the military until after the war.

17 From 1940-1945, the U.S. defense budget increased from $1.9 billion to $59.8 billion.

18 More Russians (military and civilians) lost their lives during the Siege of Leningrad than did American and British soldiers combined in all of WWII.

19 Out of the 40,000 men who served on U-boats during WWII, only 10,000 returned.

20 In 1935, British engineer Robert Watson-Watt was working on a “death ray” that would destroy enemy aircraft using radio waves. His “death ray” instead evolved into radar—or “radio detection and ranging.

21 The original abbreviation of the National Socialist Party was Nasos. The word “Nazi” derives from a Bavarian word that means “simple minded” and was first used as a term of derision by journalist Konrad Heiden

22 Max Heiliger was the fictitious name the SS used to establish a bank account in which they deposited money, gold, and jewels taken from European Jews.

23 Eighty percent of Soviet males born in 1923 didn’t survive the war

24 For every five German soldiers who died in WWII, four of them died on the Eastern Front

25 World War II was the most destructive conflict in history. It cost more money, damaged more property, and killed more people than any other war ever

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Reason why it actually started was because Hitler already took control of poland and starting to invade france, before the war started on D-day also known as Doom's day.

France were fighting the Germans from the inside while the allied forces were attacking from the outside. Germany was so powerful to conquer the inside and made france a battle field mostly beside a beach called Norman beach, don't know if I spelt that beach name correctly but that's how the war started.