World War II was the biggest was that the US fought in. It lasted from September 1st, 1939 thru September 2nd, 1945. Many countries fought in this war. It was a war that included Germany, Italy, and Japan against, Britain, France, Australia, Canada, China, and the United States of America. This ignoramus was took place in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Ocean.
During the war, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Germans, had 6-11 million Jews killed in concentration camps. This was the Holocaust. Another horrific event that happened during World War II was Pearl Harbor. In December 7th, 1941, hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. The Japanese managed to destroy nearly 20 American naval vessels, including 8 enormous battleships, and more than 300 airplanes. More than 2,000 Americans soldiers and sailors died in the attack, and another 1,000 were wounded.
The reason Japan surrendered to the US during World War II was because the US dropped an atomic bomb on them. In August 1945, the US Air Force dropped 2 atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They caused hundred of thousands of civilian casualties and were shortly followed by the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII. It was the first and only time that atomic bombs have been used in a war.
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