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Chorus: The coming of the war, get ready for round two Could it have been avoided? What would you do? Dictators who did things you could never undo Get ready for war, soon World War II

Verse: Some countries chose freedom, some the scarier system With dictators and totalitarianism The Fascists, the Nazis, the militarists in Japan Made unchecked aggression and no one would take a stand It seemed that keeping peace was the top objective The policy of appeasement meant to grant concessions Its true in fact, it would do just that But they only postponed the war with the Munich Pact The Axis Powers were Germany, Italy, and Japan The Allies started as Britain and France <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later China and the Soviets. The U.S. agreed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With the Lend-Lease Act to give the Allies what they need <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When Pearl Harbor was attacked, our involvement began <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">FDR asked Congress to declare war on Japan <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the momentum-shifting Battle of the Coral Sea <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The U.S. forced Japan to halt attack on New Guinea

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Verse: The Allies increased heavy pressure on the Germans <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At Stalingrad, Soviets sent the Nazis turning <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Strategic bombing hit right at the source <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hitting spots that destroyed Hitler’s capacity to make war <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1942, early June to be specific <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Battle of Midway was the turning point in the Pacific <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The U.S. took the offensive, on to Guadalcanal <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They drove the Japanese off, their ships Tokyo-bound <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Internment was temporary imprisonment <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Camps that Japanese-Americans lived in then <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On June 6, in ’44 the Allies came with force <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">D-Day in Normandy, when the heroes stormed ashore <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Germany’s counteract to take control <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Allies took a toll in the Battle of the Bulge <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But they pulled ahead, and defeated the Nazi’s <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next would come atomic bombs with the Manhattan Project <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Truman ordered that two bombs be dropped <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the Japanese lost <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Look at World War II and all it cost <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Like the mass murder of Jews in the Holocaust <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Great Powers came together through cooperation <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To help form the UN: United Nations <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For their many war crimes in an inhumane style <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Many Nazis were tried in the Nuremberg Trials

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chorus: Hey, this is World War II <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And the lines were drawn with two sides to choose <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One side would win and the other would lose <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the horrible, destructive World War II