Historical Context Essay

Our world today is still suffering consequences from the World War II. It was a very tragic event in history. On September 1st, 1939 Germany invaded Poland and triggered a declaration of war two days later from the UK and Russia. Jim Cimino is a veteran of WWII, responsible for the liberation of Europe as part of the support groups that worked to help the combat troops with communication and transportation needs. There was about 400 to 500 people in the class and only 200 graduated. He was one of them and became a second a lieutenant. He happened to be in Paris, May 10th, 1945 and it all came out of the Madeleine Church. All of a sudden bells started ringing and they announced that the war was over. All the French people kept coming out with bottles of champagne, and all that sort of stuff saying “Fin de la guerre” the end of the war, the end of the war! They all jumped in his jeep and started going up and down the Champs Elisé, partying in all the bars, celebrating. That’s the way they celebrated. It was the end of the European war, but they still had to fight the Asian front. The Asian front ended a year later in 1945, when the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.