Adolf Hitler. This name went down in history as the cause of the worst war ever, World War II. Because of this man, 85 million men, women and children were brutally killed. But the pre- and post-World War II phases were almost as bad as World War I and the Cold War after. Due to these three events occurring in the order they occurred, World War II turned out to be one of the scariest times on Earth. The bloodiest war in Earth's history, World War II, began with a bang when Germany invaded Poland. For months now, Hitler has been rebuilding German forces after the loss of World War I, and now Germany is basically one big war machine, ready to take over the world. After taking Poland in 1939, Germany simultaneously conquered Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway and France. Two years later, in 1941, the two superpowers went to war. On June 22, the unthinkable happened: Germany invaded the Soviet Union, its ally. Due to this interesting choice of Hitler, the Russians switch to allies and fight their former friends. Later, towards the end of the year, the Americans joined the fight. On December 7, a Japanese attack was launched to destroy the U.S. Navy docked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack left most of the US Navy in pieces on the bottom of the Pacific. The time is near for the United States to act and they have come in with a passion to destroy the Axis. Now it is 1942 and the war is still raging strong; the Axis Powers unite and officially form the Axis composed of the following countries: Bulgaria Croatia Germany Hungary Italy Japan Romania Slovakia. The Allied Forces were also formed in the same year, which consisted of the following...... middle of paper......more time and money to perfect their nuclear arsenal. This war obviously lasted beyond the 1940s (it ended unofficially in 1991), but the origin and beginning of the war began then. This war did not end with nuclear divisions, however, it spread to a whole host of things, including the space race. World War II was a very dangerous and bloody time, but the period after the war was equally terrible. World War II was no small matter. With such a large number of deaths, it has affected every living soul on planet Earth. It wasn't just World War II, however, World War I before and the Cold War after had major contributing factors to this dreaded war. Without three of these major events, World War II may not have been the horrific war it is today. But no matter how horrible this war was, the outcome if Adolf Hitler would have been a hundred times worse.