Events of World War II: Democracy Fights

America and its allies were faced with many battles ahead. Battle of the River Plate, this was the first naval battle of the war. Ships from the royal navy's south American division took on Germany's fierce Graf Spee. The battle of Midway, Americas navy destroyed Japans navy for good. The Battle of Britain, after the surrender of France, Britain was left to fight by her self. The Battle of the Bulge, this was Hitlers last attempt at splitting up the allies and cutting of it's supply. His plan failed due to failure of his own supplies like fuel and ammo. We were getting closer to the end of Hitler. These are some of the many battles fought between the Allies and Axis Powers.

While we were getting closer to victory in Europe, Japan was still putting up a fight. The dreadful numbers of "twenty-seven percent of Western prisoners of war in Japanese camps died in captivity, against 3 percent of those held by the Germans" (War Camps). Despite these tragic events, America never put her head down. We were always attacking and planning for our next move. Our military Generals and advisers were very smart on battle field tactics, at one point we used our Native American people to use there language as a secret code to translate messages on the front lines. The Native Americans who were used for these mission's were told that "the side that can send secure messages more quickly and efficiently holds an enormous advantage over its opponent, and any advantage that can be gained through the communication of secret messages can make the difference between winning and losing a battle or even a war" (Code Talking). This strategy proved victorious over the Japanese, it resulted in the take over of Iwo Jima.

NAVAJO CODE TALKERS

The main battle that doomed Hitler was D-Day, June 6, 1944. Allied forces landed 2 million troops on the beach of Normandy. By the end of August, Allies liberated Paris, Brussels and Antwerp. While the Allies were sweeping territory, they were also bombing major German industries, crippling Hitlers power. The Allies became an unstoppable force. Hitler recognized this and took the cowards way out. He and his wife committed suicide on April 30, 1945. One week after the suicide, Germany surrendered.

While Germany surrendered, Japan was still holding onto the fight. Japan at this point had already been beaten, but there pride wouldn't let them surrender. Many suicide missions were played out, due to the fact that they knew they were going to be defeated. America got tired of our soldiers being murderd by these suicide missions.