Imagine, it's 1939 and you're sitting at home with your family when you hear screaming outside, you open the door to see what's going on and, BANG! you're dead. On September 1, 1939, less than a year after the Munich Agreement, Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. His goal was to eliminate all Jews. Britain and France promised to help Poland, but Britain was too far away for their air force to help and France was too afraid to help because it was afraid of the Germans. Poland had very little Navy and Air Force to fight the Germans. Around the same time Poland was also invaded by the Soviet Union, so their army was too small to fight the Germans and the Soviet Union. Warsaw was taken on September 27, and organized resistance ended on October 5 (O'Neill 268). This invasion started World War II. France, Russia, England and the United States formed what were called the Allied Forces to fight the Nazis. Germany joined Italy and Japan and formed the Axis alliance to fight the Allied forces (Strahinich 16-17). World War II was the bloodiest war in the entire history of warfare. The war continued and eventually turned against Germany and the Nazis. The Nazis, however, did not relax their attack on the Jews. As the war continued, the Nazis killed Jews in ever greater numbers (Strahinich 17). Mussolini was jealous of Hitler but was naturally inclined to form an alliance with Germany. Italy could have joined the Allied countries, but they would not have followed Mussolini's expansion plans while Hitler did. Italy conquered Albania in 1939. To ensure that Germany won the battle, Italy invaded France on 10 June 1940 but was unsuccessful. Even though Mussolini failed, Hitler still rewarded him for attacking France. As the war continued, the United States could not help Poland because it did not belong to the League of Nations and was not allied with anyone. After the outbreak of war the United States remained neutral as required by law. The United States would lend Britain 50 or 60 US destroyers for the American right to use British bases in the Western Hemisphere. The Americans thought that if the Germans beat the British and the Soviet Union, Germany would invade the United States and fight in the United States, so they said they would fight as far away from the United States as possible..