What did Albert Einstein do for the World War 2?
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In 1939, under the encouragement of Szilárd, Einstein sent a letter to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt urging the study of nuclear fission for military purposes, under fears that the Nazi government would be first to develop atomic weapons. Roosevelt started a small investigation into the matter which eventually became the massive Manhattan Project. Einstein himself did not work on the bomb project, however.\n\nThe International Rescue Committee was founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein to assist opponents of Adolf Hitler
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http://www.euronet.nl/users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm
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As you know, WW1 started with the assassination of an Austrian leader. At the end of WW1, Germany was still in a depressed state (like economic depression), and the time was ripe for new radical leadership with the ousting of the old. This new radical leadership, along with the newly invented propaganda machine of television, and Germany's economic state of despair, were the reasons for WW2. Hitler believed expansion of his "kingdom" (third Reich) was essential for Germany's economic prosperity. And at the time, gold was a limited supply, same as today, except that all money was backed by gold. Today, money is not backed by gold. And a limited supply of money made war an economical advantage, they war, they win, they take your gold. Today war is an economical burdon, it is not for gold, but for power.
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(m)\n\nThe Lead Up to World War 2\nChemical Cartels\nWithout a doubt, a key player in the cause of World War 2 was the powerful Adolf Hitler.  But the major source of Hitler's power came from a chemical cartel called I.G. Farben, (the name is an abbreviation of the complete name: Interssen Gemeinschaft Farben.) The importance of I.G. Farben's support for the Socialist movement was pointed out in a book about the cartel, in which it is stated: "without I.G.'s immense production facilities, its far reaching research, varied technical experience and overall concentration of economic power, Germany would not have been in a position to start its aggressive war in September, 1939."1\n\nBut I.G. Farben had a little-known source of its enormous economic power: Wall Street, U.S.A. "Without the capital supplied by Wall Street, there would have been no I.G. Farben in the first place, and almost certainly no Adolf Hitler and World War II."2\n\nI.G. Farben had its beginning in 1924 when American banker Charles Dawes arranged a series of foreign loans totalling $800 million to consolidate gigantic chemical and steel combinations into cartels, one of which was I.G. Farben. Professor Can-oil Quigley terms the Dawes Plan: "largely a J.P. Morgan production."3\n\nThree Wall Street houses, Dillon, Read & Co.; Harris, Forbes & Co.; and National City handled three-quarters of the loans used to create these cartels.\n\nThe importance of LG. Farben to the plans of the German Nazi Party can be illustrated by a product that an I.G. dominated company manufactured. It was called Zyklon B, the lethal gas utilized by the exterminators at Auschwitz, Bitterfeld, Walfen, Hoechst, Agfa, Ludwigshafen, and Buchenwald. (I.G. Farben, being a chemical company even before it was merged with other chemical companies to form the cartel, was also the producer of the chlorine gas used during World War I.) American support for I.G. Farben continued as Henry Ford merged his German assets with those of I.G. in 1928.4\n\nBut the real importance of I.G. to the war efforts of Adolf Hitler came in the utilization of the process known as hydrogenation, the production of gasoline from coal, created by the I.G. Farben chemical cartel. Germany had no native gasoline production capabilities, and this was one of the main reasons it lost World War I. A German scientist discovered the process of converting coal (Germany was the possessor of large quantities of coal) into gasoline in 1909, but the technology was not completely developed during the war. In August, 1927, Standard Oil agreed to embark on a cooperative program of research and development of the hydrogenation process to refine the oil necessary for Germany to prepare for World War II.\n\nAnd finally, on November 9, 1929, these two giant companies signed a cartel agreement that had two objectives:\n\nFirst, the cartel agreement granted Standard Oil one-half of all rights to the hydrogenation process in all countries of the world except Germany; and\n\nSecondly, the two agreed: "... never to compete with each other in the fields of chemistry and petroleum products. In the future, if Standard Oil wished to enter the broad field of industrial chemicals or drugs, it would do so only as a partner of Farben.\n\nFarben, in turn, agreed never to enter the field of petroleum except as a joint venture with Standard."5\n\nThis cartel agreement was extremely important to the war effort, because, by the end of the war, Germany was producing about seventy-five percent of its fuel synthetically.\n\nBut even more significant was the fact that these plants were not the subject of Allied bombing raids, so that, by the war's end, twenty-five to thirty of its refineries were still operating with only about fifteen percent damage.\n\nStandard Oil got into the refining business as well. In fact, William Dodd, the U.S. Ambassador in Germany, wrote the following in his diary about the pre-war
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To sacrifice 100,000+ Japanese lives for possibly millions of Japanese, European and American lives.  The war would have continued if it were not for "the bomb" - and once on mainland Japan, it would have been disastrous.  The Japanese actually did not surrender until after we bombed another city, Nagasaki, several days later.  This is a testament to their will and determination at that time.\n\nThe other important thing to remember is that Germany was also developing a nuclear device and was ahead of us with delivery systems (rockets, missiles, etc.), so it was imperative that we not only develop the bomb(s), but demonstrate that we had them and their effectiveness, as horrible as that sounds.\n\nNuclear weapsons are a terrible thing, cost countries billions of dollars to develop, and if used again, will most likely damage the planet irreparably.
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even though Hitler was not German he wanted to create a perfect race. He wanted to kill all homosexuals, gypsies and jews. His program was to make Germany a powerhouse country and to slowly make his way through Europe and take over. A lot of people actually believe that Hitler was not an evil person, a lot of people think he was a lunatic. I have even heard that the holocaust was over played, and I have heard that Hitler's primary goal was to get rid of all the "trash" and build the perfect world.
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World War II, also WWII, or the Second World War, was a global military conflict that took place in 1939–1945. It was the largest and deadliest war in history, culminating in the Holocaust and the dropping of the atom bomb.
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Well, winning World War II set the United States up to be a world power.  It also helped ushered in a great deal of long-overdue reforms in Europe, and today a European Federal Constitution is now a very real possibility.  Further still,  had Hitler succeeded, he would have undoubetly gone on to destroy the United States indescriminatently.  He would not have spared a single American, even those who resembled his ideal race, because they had grown up in a culture that was, in his eyes, dirty and corrupt (not to mention we were his sworn enemy).  This is one of the many instances in which money plays no role, so the 2.6 trillion figure you site is meaningless.  And even though the use of atomic weapons is still controversial, that alone does not aide your case 'was stopping _Hitler_ worth it.  I'm frankly shocked and appauled that someone could use their freedom of speech, something that wouldn't be enjoyed in a Hilter-ized America, in such a blatantly ridiculous manner.
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(snip)"Einstein also became known for his support of political and social causes. Those included pacifism, a general opposition to warfare; Zionism, a movement to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine; and socialism, a political system in which the means of production would be owned by society and production would be planned to match the needs of the community." (end snip)\n\nGood question.  I was not aware of his political standing and your question provoked me to look it up.  I have learned something today.  I hope this answer has helped you too. :-)
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einstein has a time machine...\nborrow it from him...\nto to the time period you want to know about....\nbut be careful because some of these were dangerous times...\nmake sure you come back so that you can return the machine to einstein
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Hmm, think hard_then speak has an interesting one, although the answer is reasonably well known.\n\nFollowing the WWII I'd interview Werner Heisenberg in 1944 to see if he was really NOT trying to build an A-bomb for Nazi Germany, or if that is just what he said after the war. (And after he learned he was going about it in the wrong way.)
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." -- Albert Einstein
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hey, i just took a test over this, well as you probably know he was the presidentat WWII. He created the United Nations, he lead the miltary alliance that defeated the Nazis(italy and japan)he was best known for his role in the great depression, using his deal new that created the democratic party.
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hitler was on the power on 1933 and the second world war started th 39 look on google
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Hitler used blitzkrieg, or lightening war.  He invaded so quickly and secretly that nobody had the time to resist.  He just rushed in and took Poland.  He tried following with attacking other countries, but some were not as easy.\n\nwww.wikipedia.org is a good place to look it up, but the site is down right now--technical difficulties (probably hacked).\n\nHere is a timeline that may help.  Start looking at 1939 and go up.\n\nhttp://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html
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The royal guy was Archduke Franz Ferdinard of Austria and that started World War ONE.\n\nWW2 started in September 1939 when Britain's ultimatum to Hitler to guarantee that he would not invade Poland was ignored by Hitler and Britain therefore declared war on Germany. \n\nHitler had been trying to extend German influence in Europe for 6 years at that point. His slogan was One People, One State, One Leader. (Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer). His ostensible reason was to unite all German-speaking people in Europe.\n\nHe annexed Austria in 1938, and marched into the Sudetenland area of  Czechoslovakia, which caused Chamberlain to protest feebly but do nothing much about it (he came back from Munich waving a piece of paper and saying "Peace In our Time")\n\nBut Britain finally realised you cannot appease fascists and make concessions to them, or they just demand more and more concessions, and stood up to Hitler over Poland being invaded.\n\nAmerica entered the war in 1941 after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour. But the war started in 1939 and it is a very self-centered view of history that some Americans have if they describe the war as only starting when they decided to join in.
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do something that interests you for me it was history ww2