World War II

The Second World War is the conflict the largest that the humanity has known, involving over 100 million soldiers from 61 nations, spreading the war on approximately 22 million km² , and killing about 62 million people, the majority of them civilians. Just was not between nations, World War II was the first great ideological war of history, which explains that the forces of cooperation in Europe and Asia may have been occupied in solidarity with countries invaders or enemies, or that a resistance may have existed until the heart of Nazi Germany at war.

The Second World War was a global military conflict that developed between 1939 and 1945. It became involved the majority of the world's nations, including all major powers, by creating two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. It was the biggest war in history, with over 100 million soldiers mobilized and a state of " total war "in which the top contenders spent all their economic, military and science in the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between resources civilian and military.

Marked by events of great significance that included the mass killing of civilians, the Holocaust and the use of first and last nuclear weapons in a military conflict, the Second World War was the deadliest conflict in human history, with a final score of between 50 and 70 million victims.

The causes of World War II more immediate to the outbreak of it are, firstly, the invasion of Poland by the Germans and the Japanese attacks on China, the United States and the colonies British and Dutch in Asia. The Second World War broke out after these aggressive actions in response received a declaration of war, armed resistance or both by the countries attacked and those with whom they dealt. At first, the Allies were formed only by Poland, Great Britain and France, while the Axis forces consisted only in Germany and Italy, united in an alliance with the Pact of Steel.

As the war progressed, countries were entering the same (being a voluntary basis, or being attacked) lined up in one of the two sides, depending on your situation. That was the case in the United States and the USSR, attacked by Japan and Germany respectively. Some countries, like Hungary, changed its alignment in the final stages of the war.

The United States formally entered World War II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese empire in 1941. As the United States built on its post-war strength, tax policies implemented in the early 1900s were starting to have an impact on the giving behavior of individuals in the post-war period. In 1913, the personal income tax was initiated, and in 1917, Congress passed legislation that encouraged private giving by approving an income tax deduction for gifts to charitable organizations. The results for charities from these two tax policies began to be felt in the post-war period as Americans started to make more money and to pay more ...