WW2

What I know is for the most part, from fiction (Sound of Music, Book Thief, Bed knobs and Broomsticks, first few minutes of Narnia, etc.)

-America was Allied with England (and some other people too, not really sure who..)
-Germany was the bad guy (sound familiar)
-HITLER
- He made life terrible in Germany
- He made life terrible for Jews everywhere (killed 6 million (or 600,000)
- Detainment camps
- Numbers tattooed on arms to keep track of prisoners
-gas chambers used for mass extermination (including children)
- Jews used for inhumane scientific experiments (testing poison, etc. )
- In some camps, they would kill people in the showers, by sending though acid rather than water, but you had no way of knowing.
- Prisoners sent on marches though the streets of Germany, to humiliate them.
- In Germany, if you weren't blond-haired and blue-eyed, you had to be VERY careful. It didn't entirely matter if you were actually Jewish or not.
- Lots of people hid refugees in their basements
- England suffered a lot
- Subject of a lot of bombing (especially London)
- Evacuated children to countryside
- Japan got involved (on Germany's side-I think they're called the Axis Powers, but I learned that today)
-Pearl Harbor
-Hiroshima- created a TON of long-lasting damage (I'm not even going to describe it)
- I forget the name of the island, but it was near Japan, and had a very long, bloody battle (may have been Iwo-Jima)

The Allied Powers won. The End (cue baby boom)

Q's:
What exactly happened to Hitler?
Who was on what side?
Were the battle tactics any more humane than WWI?
How exactly DOES a war boost the economy?