a number of new technologies and
ideologies came forth during this battle
that made war deadlier than ever before
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning about the tactics used
during World War two the new idea of
total war put civilians at risk during
battle as opposed to simply military
personnel also a newfound importance was
placed on air warfare by both the axis
and allied countries though each
approached it differently the Nazi
German air force was called the
Luftwaffe and was successful early in
the war for the first two years of the
battle they successfully employed
blitzkrieg operations to attack and
decrease the morale of their enemies
localized firepower was supported by
land and air teams in highly coordinated
strikes because these assaults were
based on speed and surprise they were
meant to terrify and disorient
adversaries the Germans even used sirens
to add further shock value the
blitzkrieg was meant to force
adversaries to make mistakes and to
disable their capacity to defend
themselves due to fear and confusion the
Germans used this to their advantage
while invading regions like France
Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940
despite these successes the Luftwaffe
failed to work strategically and
eventually ran out of gasoline this
ultimately caused them to fail meanwhile
naval warfare became an important threat
due to the use of u-boats by the German
Navy or Kriegsmarine these submarines
efficiently damaged Allied shipping and
were used to sink more than 3000 Allied
ships the main weapon used by u-boats
was the torpedo and developments
throughout the war made these vessels
even more deadly another tactic used by
the German Nazi Party to eliminate
dissenters and those they deemed to be
inferior was the concentration camp
though these camps existed even in the
early 1930s the Nazis greatly enlarged
them during the early war years
prisoners held in these camps were
deemed guilty without any legal process
these included Jews Gypsies jehovah’s
witnesses political prisoners criminals
Communists and homosexuals as well as
the mentally and physically disabled the
conditions in these
death camps were horrible and many of
those detained died from disease or
malnutrition meanwhile others were used
as slaves for medical experiments or
simply tortured by 1942 the final
solution to the Jewish Question was
implemented by the Nazis they began
rounding up and murdering the Jewish
population of Europe in mass executions
many of those already in concentration
camps were sent to gas chambers this
Massacre was then called the Holocaust
the existence of these camps was only
confirmed in the spring of 1945 when
Allied troops uncovered the truth
up to that point most people did not
believe something so horrible could
happen despite rumors about the camps
estimates suggest 11 million people were
kept in concentration camps by the Nazis
and 6 million of those killed were Jews
the Empire of Japan also used extreme
wartime tactics kamikaze attacks began
in October 1944 and were suicide
missions during which pilots would
attempt to take out as many allied
military ships as possible the aircraft
that took part in these attacks were
normally equipped with bombs and extra
gasoline in order to maximize the
resulting explosion the Japanese decided
that the loss of their equipment and
pilots was worth destroying a large
number of enemy ships the worst of these
attacks resulted in 5,000 u.s. Navy
deaths at Okinawa in total roughly 300
allied warships were damaged another of
the terrifying tactics to be used in
world war ii was the atomic bomb the
nuclear device was developed mainly by
the United States with help from the
United Kingdom and Canada when the two
bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in early August 1945 it caused
Japan to finally surrender and end the
war while these extreme actions were
widely criticized they were just one
part of what made this the bloodiest war
in history
ideologies came forth during this battle
that made war deadlier than ever before
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be learning about the tactics used
during World War two the new idea of
total war put civilians at risk during
battle as opposed to simply military
personnel also a newfound importance was
placed on air warfare by both the axis
and allied countries though each
approached it differently the Nazi
German air force was called the
Luftwaffe and was successful early in
the war for the first two years of the
battle they successfully employed
blitzkrieg operations to attack and
decrease the morale of their enemies
localized firepower was supported by
land and air teams in highly coordinated
strikes because these assaults were
based on speed and surprise they were
meant to terrify and disorient
adversaries the Germans even used sirens
to add further shock value the
blitzkrieg was meant to force
adversaries to make mistakes and to
disable their capacity to defend
themselves due to fear and confusion the
Germans used this to their advantage
while invading regions like France
Belgium and the Netherlands in 1940
despite these successes the Luftwaffe
failed to work strategically and
eventually ran out of gasoline this
ultimately caused them to fail meanwhile
naval warfare became an important threat
due to the use of u-boats by the German
Navy or Kriegsmarine these submarines
efficiently damaged Allied shipping and
were used to sink more than 3000 Allied
ships the main weapon used by u-boats
was the torpedo and developments
throughout the war made these vessels
even more deadly another tactic used by
the German Nazi Party to eliminate
dissenters and those they deemed to be
inferior was the concentration camp
though these camps existed even in the
early 1930s the Nazis greatly enlarged
them during the early war years
prisoners held in these camps were
deemed guilty without any legal process
these included Jews Gypsies jehovah’s
witnesses political prisoners criminals
Communists and homosexuals as well as
the mentally and physically disabled the
conditions in these
death camps were horrible and many of
those detained died from disease or
malnutrition meanwhile others were used
as slaves for medical experiments or
simply tortured by 1942 the final
solution to the Jewish Question was
implemented by the Nazis they began
rounding up and murdering the Jewish
population of Europe in mass executions
many of those already in concentration
camps were sent to gas chambers this
Massacre was then called the Holocaust
the existence of these camps was only
confirmed in the spring of 1945 when
Allied troops uncovered the truth
up to that point most people did not
believe something so horrible could
happen despite rumors about the camps
estimates suggest 11 million people were
kept in concentration camps by the Nazis
and 6 million of those killed were Jews
the Empire of Japan also used extreme
wartime tactics kamikaze attacks began
in October 1944 and were suicide
missions during which pilots would
attempt to take out as many allied
military ships as possible the aircraft
that took part in these attacks were
normally equipped with bombs and extra
gasoline in order to maximize the
resulting explosion the Japanese decided
that the loss of their equipment and
pilots was worth destroying a large
number of enemy ships the worst of these
attacks resulted in 5,000 u.s. Navy
deaths at Okinawa in total roughly 300
allied warships were damaged another of
the terrifying tactics to be used in
world war ii was the atomic bomb the
nuclear device was developed mainly by
the United States with help from the
United Kingdom and Canada when the two
bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki in early August 1945 it caused
Japan to finally surrender and end the
war while these extreme actions were
widely criticized they were just one
part of what made this the bloodiest war
in history
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