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The accepted view is that the war began in earnest on [[1939-09-01]] with the raid of [[Directory:Poland|Poland]] by [[Nazi]] [[Directory:Germany|Germany]], and concluded on [[1945-09-02]] with the official surrender of the last [[Axis Powers|Axis]] force, [[Directory:Japan|Japan]]. However, in Europe, the war had concluded earlier with the unconditional surrender of Germany on [[1945-05-08]].
The accepted view is that the war began in earnest on [[1939-09-01]] with the raid of [[Directory:Poland|Poland]] by [[Nazi]] [[Directory:Germany|Germany]], and concluded on [[1945-09-02]] with the official surrender of the last [[Axis Powers|Axis]] force, [[Directory:Japan|Japan]]. However, in Europe, the war had concluded earlier with the unconditional surrender of Germany on [[1945-05-08]].
==Journalistic coverage==
==Journalistic Coverage==
One interesting study documents how the strategic bombing of Germany was [[Directory:American Journals and the Strategic Bombing of Germany|documented in popular American journals]].
One interesting study documents how the strategic bombing of Germany was [[Directory:American Journals and the Strategic Bombing of Germany|documented in popular American journals]].
==Significant Events==
Each theater, the European and the Pacific, were marked by an occurrence. In Europe, Hitler's Germany was intent on murdering every Jew in Europe. Six million perished. The defeat of Nazi Germany, however, led to an international movement to provide the displaced Jews with a homeland, and in 1948 the State of Israel was created in the Levant. Hitler's strategy backfired; instead of eradicating the Jews, his demonic policies led to the first Jewish state since Biblical times and a guarantee that the Jewish people would survive.
Other ethnic groups suffered mightily from the Aryan view of self-supremacy. Twenty million Russians, largely civilians, died in World War II. The Germans also murdered homosexuals, gypsies, clerics, and other considered inferior to the German people.
In the Pacific theater, the decision not to invade Japan led to the unleashing of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and, after Japan remained steadfast in its refusal to surrender, Nagasaki. The atomic age began when the Japanese refused to recognize the inevitable.