What did people fight and die for in WWII?
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GREAT QUESTION!\n\nThe answer: because just as the Germans became prejudiced against the Jews through ignorance, lack of education and misinformation, so people today are prejudiced against non-white people in general, and Muslims in particular.\n\nWe need to educate people as to what the BNP really stands for, the links its members have with neo-Nazi organisations such as Combat 18, and also that most Muslims just want to live in peace and contribute to our society.\n\nAs a member of the Party that supposedly governs this country I feel ashamed that we have been so spectacularly unsuccessful in doing this.\n\nA close friend of mine who fought in World War II from Dunkirk to D-Day, and was present when Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated in 1945, cried the day my City elected its first BNP councillor, and died three weeks later a broken man.
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my grandfather served in Europe during WWII. he was part of the liberation of Dachau. he told me that you could smell the odor of burning flesh from miles away. he saw the ovens. he saw the surviving victims starved within an inch of their lives. so starved that a normal meal would kill them. they took German soldiers (including officers) into custody. they described what their duties were. it was absolutely horrific. my grandfather is neither a liar, nor a senile old man telling tales. these things happened. anyone who says they didnt is either deluded or diseased.
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Well a "war" is defined by an "open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations" it generally includes armed assault.  That said, WWII was a "war" b/c nations declared there be a state of hostility among themselves...the countries approached an impasse and used political pressures and militant power to try and resolve it.  \n\n\nSo, a list??  Let me try and generalize "war" in bullet-form.\n\n- Disagreement b/w one or more nations \n- Governments DECLARED OPENLY that there be a dynamic b/w the nations which includes forcefully trying to "get what they want."\n- Force in WWII included blockades, the killing of both soldiers and civilians, invading foreign territories to reach strategic targets to be destroyed, looting, raping, torture, etc. (no country is exempt from this laundry list of behaviors, some countries more guilty of certain ones than others, I won't name names).  \n\nHope my answer helped - if you need more let me know and I'll see what I can do.
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http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=World+War+II&gwp=13
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Well, the Allies were many different countries.  You would have to narrow down your question a little bit if you want to know something specific.  As far as some of the Allies go, China, France, England and Russia, as well as many other countries, were fighting to save their homeland.  Many of these countries were actually occupied by one or more of the Axis powers.  England held its own, but Germany was attempting to invade and did its best, but England was too determined to keep them out.  If you ask why the United States was involved in the war, it was partly because we were attacked by the Japanese.  The reason we fought in the European Theater is because the Allied leadership felt it was necessary to defeat the Germans and Italians because they were the more powerful combination in the Axis.  For your actual question, why were they fighting?  The Allies felt that people deserved the right to be free and be able to live the way they wanted as long as they didn't infringe on others right to do the same and the Axis powers wanted to control everyone and force them to live by their rules and according to their beliefs.  That would be why the Allies fought, to stop that from happening.
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over 3000 non military people were killed on 9-11. Is it worth it. On D-Day WWII over 7,000 were killed on one single day. WAS IT WORTH IT.
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there are a lot of events in WWII. \n1.) Pearl Harbor\n2.) Battle of Britain\n3.) D-day\n4.) Atomic bombs\n5.) Battle of the Bulge\n6.) V-E day\n7.) V-J day\n\nJust to name a few!
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Hi there, \n\nThe Second World War went on for 6 years from 1939 - 1945.\nIt caused a great man and machine loss for the humanity. People suffered, rich countries turned poor, poor countries turned poorer, and the poorer countries had nothing left after the war.\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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Many people were killed in WWII including the Jews.\nbut the story of holocaust was made up by the Zionist Jews to pretend they were not safe in Europe and they needed their own homeland. That was the main pretext for invading and occupying palestine, a country that had no role in the war. But let it be said that there are some Jews who oppose occupation of Palestine.
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If people want to question the war, thats cool. There were plenty of people who thought that we shouldnt have fought Hitler as well.\n\nBut I too am disturbed by those people on here who advocate turning up to soldiers funerals and protesting, and those who automatically believe that everything the enemy says is correct and that everything the U.S says is wrong.\n\nThere are a lot of immature and ill informed people using this site to make cheap political points based on what they have read on the internet, and I'm afraid that if some of these folks had their way, soldiers would be coming home to be spat at in the street and called baby killers.
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Agree with Scott, and the others that say WWII.\n\nAnd something to consider...Of the 16 million who served, only about 4 million are still alive and veterans from that war are dying at a rate of 1,056 a day.   So hug a Vet or say "thanks" today, they might not be here tomorrow.  \n\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/28/national/main620124.shtml\n\nAlso realize this is the generation where women left the home and entered the workplace in non-traditional female roles to run the factories and plants to keep America (and other countries) rolling.   This opened the door to the many choices women have today.  So hug a "Rosie the Riveter" today.   She too, might not be here tomorrow.   Little known fact:  The woman from the "Rosie the Riveter" painting by Norman Rockwell was Mary Doyle Keefe,  almost 80 years now and a grandmother of eleven kids. \n\nhttp://www.rosietheriveter.org/painting.htm
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War is when a country or a group of people within a country fight against one another with weapons. There are numerous reasons for war. Wars have been fought for independence, to expand land, because of disputes, to protect a country's independence and/or land, to gain resources, because of alliances, etc.
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I haven't usually heard it called that, at least not in the United States, France, or Britain.  I think it might have been called the "Great Patriotic War" in Russia, though -- but they like big names.\n\nWW2 was not fought primarily for patriotic reasons, at least not by the United States, though patriotism might have been used to motivate the soldiers.  I think in many cases WW2 was called the "Good War" because the other side was so monstrously evil that there is no moral question.
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totally ignore Kails, he has no clue what he is talking about, Italy was knocked out of the war before Germany, then the allies moved in on Germany, Russia from the East and UK etc from the West and met in Berlin where Hitler shot himself before the bunker that the high command were sheltering was captured. and that was the day we celebrate as V.E day (victory in Europe) then in the Pacific it continued for a while until America dropped 2 nuclear bombs on civilian centres and Japan surrendered. the allied soldiers would of known it was over cos their commanding officers would of told them. although there are some rumours that Japanese soldiers remained in Korea till this day fighting on in the mountains cos they did  not know the war was over \nhope that helps
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The winners write history.  Enough said.  Check the history books, do you ever see anything about the "relocation camps" on the west coast of the US filled with "Japanese" during WW II?  It happened. You have to really search for the information, but it is a fact.\n\nSpeaking of WW II, do you actually hear about how the US was staying "neutral", but we were providing weapons, money, and soldiers to the Allies and refused the Axis powers.  Thus provoking the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Well, as you said little earlyer about how the war (WWII) wasnt fought, it sounded like you thought it was for no reason... well, because of the war, millions of people died and only 42 percent of those who died were soldiers. But, because of the war, we have learned priceless technolegys in war fighting and also in fixing injuries. The war created many new injuries that the docters back then didnt face before. Also, the communism in germany and spreading was stopped before Adolf Hitler tried to take over Europe and probably more. (although he did control 78 percent of europe at his best)There is a chinese proverb that saids "war is the evil brother of peace" what that means is that although peace might be in the presence, there is always war that comes right around the corner.\nPeace cannot be made without the presence of war.\nThat is all...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II