OCR Text |
Show World War II Began In Sept. In the first week of September, Sep-tember, 1939, the second world war began when German Ger-man troops attacked Poland. Hitler had thought England might back down to avoid a war over Poland, once again. But the British, and French, declared war on Sept. 3. POLAND WAS beaten by the Germans in six weeks; Russia invaded the hapless country shortly after the German Ger-man attack, having secretly agreed to do so before the German assault. Almost six years later, at a cosi of niiiiionb oi lives, Germany Ger-many was beaten by practically prac-tically the rest of the world. Poland, howewr, and eastern Europe were shallowed up by Russian Communism and remain Russian-dominated. THE GREAT twentieth century sirugle between facism and Communism thus ended in a Communist victory. vic-tory. , Other thiin K-Her's unjustified unjus-tified and shocking extermination exter-mination of Jevs, there was lit:le to cr, between the two totalitarian systems. And Poland, the invasion of which touched off the war, was never freed by the allies. IN THE Far East, Japan's infamous attack on the U.S. was properly punished and the Japanese beaten but the big result on the mainland was the Communist conquest of China from a corrupt Chiang Kai Shek regime. Thus the prime and original issue which caused U.S. hostility hos-tility to Japan, its attack on China, was not solved by the war. China, like Poland, ended end-ed up in Communist hands. |