HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (WORLD WAR 2)

HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (WORLD WAR 2)

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The Second World War

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939 which is when Germany against Poland until August 14, 1945 which is when Japan surrendered from the US after the bombing that happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, there is also the opinion that the war was started first when Japan had occupied Manchuria on 1 March 1937. An estimated 50 million people died in this war, and this war is the most terrible war and broader in scope than that ever happened to date ,

This war emerged as a result of events that occurred during World War I. As the failure of LBB in creating world peace, the arms race between countries, and the development of totalitarian ideologies like Nazism in Germany, Fascism in Italy and Communism in Russia is very aggressive, antidemocratic, is socialist and revolutionary. Ultranasionalisme ideology and also owned by the German and Italian who considers his country is much more powerful than other countries.

More detail, World War II emerged as a legacy of World War I can not be resolved, particularly related to issues that are not satisfied with the German defeat and the Treaty of Versailles received. Then tried to get up through Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.

Hitler started it all since 1933 when he wanted to expand his territory to the east and do Germanisation. And Hitler was getting support from the population of the country. Then Hitler incorporating Austria into the German territory. In 1934 Hitler was no longer bound by the Treaty of Versailles marked dengna killed Chancellor Austria by Nazi leader Austria in July 1934.

 

Adolf Hitler

The German act does not raise the tension of the countries involved in World War I, such as the UK who chose to take the attitude of appeasement, and signed an agreement with the German Navy in June 1935. But the stance taken this even be a danger for France who fear resurgent Germany. While the British think with the rise of Germany under the leadership of Hitler, can be used for the containment of communism found in Russia are very aggressive to the countries of Western Europe.

When the countries involved in World War I no longer think it's related to the current state of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler discovered a powerful ally Benito Mussolini of Italy that is. Italy is a country that has the ideology of fascism and spirit ultranasiolisme. Musollini aggression against a sovereign Ethiopia.

In 1936-1939 Germany and Italy also intervene in the civil war that occurred in Spain in support of fascist groups under the leadership of General Francisco Franco.

In early July 1937, at the same time, the Japanese invasion of China is China's former imperial city of Beijing. Which started Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which is a stepping-stone japanese campaign to colonize the rest of China. The Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with China to provide material support. China under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek deployed his best troops to defend Shanghai, but after three months of fighting, Shanghai fell. Then Japan continued its invasion in December 1937 and overran the capital city of Nanking.

Japan continued its invasion of the Soviet Union on July 29 1938 in the Battle of Lake Khasan. But Japan recognize the results of the war and a series of dead ends. Japan went on strike on May 11, 1939 to Mongolia to move the border, but they were defeated by the Red Army, and became the first major defeat for Japan.

At the end of 1937, Germany began to enter Austria and Czechoslovakia, threatening Austria through military invasions, so in March 1938 toppled Hitler became Chancellor of Austria national who also ideology Nazism, and Austria made the German Province Kingdom.

Hitler was threatening Czechoslovakia West (Sudetelenad) to give the entire population of the German minority in the Country, but the threat faced by the Republic of governance, which France is also an ally Republic since 1924, as well as Russia are ready to help the Republic. But the western countries this does not move when the aggression by Germany already done. They just let Hitler do what it demands. So that the negotiations are carried out by French, British, and German sweet fruit for Germany, which Sudeteland must be submitted to Germany as soon as possible, and the Republic surrendered.

Hitler continued to dominate the Czech like a doll knowing western countries vulnerable to this affair. Then the western countries even change his attitude, like when Hitler began to ask for the ethnic minorities in Danzig (Poland), Chamberlain and French leaders declare war if Hitler invaded the country.

September 1, 1939, Germany attacked from the air and ground forces from three directions. Two days later Britain and France declared war on Germany, and that's when World War II began and spread to various regions of the world.

Poland lost in just four weeks. Soviet Russia also took part to defend the eastern part of Poland and the Baltic countries. British and French attack on the western front and imposing economic blockade against Germany.

In 1940 after occupying Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Germany was attacking southern Belgium to bypass the defense system of the United Kingdom and France. After the attack, the German managed to subdue the British forces at Dunkirk and master French.

In French, German form named Pranchis Vichy puppet government under the leadership of Marshal Henry-Philippe Petain. Then Hitler virtually control the entire mainland of Western Europe in July 1940.

German air attack and amphibians to conquer England, but Germany was not able to defeat the British. So Germany shifted its attack to the British defense system in the eastern Mediterranean. The attack was carried out by seizing Egypt and the Suez Canal, and cut off the fuel supply Britain. And Hitler also divert the attack to the Balkans after Mussolini defeated in Greece, the attack aimed to seize Greece, Yugoslovia, and forcing Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania to join Germany in April 1941. Hitler attacks continue eastward to attack Russia, and in June 1941 Hitler invaded the Soviet Union.

But Russia still insist and do not give up, when it was winter, while Germany still with summer gear stop the attack due to the weather.

On December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on the American base, located in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii. Germany also declared war on America and continue attacks against Britain and the Soviet Union, through the eastern and western fronts. This attack makes the United States, United Kingdom, China, Australia and other countries declared war on Japan, except the Soviet Union neutral because the war was involved also in the eastern front and had made a mental shriveled when victims reach hundreds of thousands of people.

At the end of April 1942 Japan and Thailand almost controlled the whole of Burma, Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies, Singapore, and Rabaul. Likewise the Philippines that subject in May 1942. Shortly thereafter Japan began operations to occupy Port Moresby by amphibious assault. But the allies managed to cut off the invasion of the Japanese naval attack at the Battle of the Coral Sea. And Japan also failed to carry out its operations to destroy the American ship, because the Americans managed to decode the Sea of Japan in late May, and Japan defeated at Midway. But a ground assault in Port Moresby still further and Japan win, and create an army in New Guinea Port Moresby ordered to retreat from the Battle of Guadalcanal. After Guadalcanal campaign, the allies started against Japan in the Pacific in May 1943, and repel Japanese forces from the Aleutians.

On the other hand, Germany attacked the Soviet forces in the Kursk Bulge in July 4, 1943, and the Soviet Union succeeded in making Hitler called off the attack. And on July 12, 1943, the Soviets retaliated Germany and won the battle or dead-end in the east. Here is the beginning of the fall of Germany.

On September 1943, the German aid Musolini were attacked by sekut west, and established a new client state in Italy holder Germany called Italian Social Republic.

On June 6, 1944 (D-Day), after three years of repressed Soviet, western allies invaded northern France. And on August 25, Western forces hit the German forces. And on June 22 with the strategy in Belarus, German ground forces were completely destroyed. In the Pacific, United continued to press the Japanese retreat, in mid June 1944, Japanese forces lost the Battle of the Philippine Sea. And the prime minister of Japan Tojo resigned.

December 16, 1944, Germany deploying the rest of the reserve forces to launch a counterattack in Ardenner to split the Western allies, conquered the main supply port to resolve political problems. However, in January 1945 this thwarted attack.

In February, the Soviets invaded Silesia and Pomerania, while the western allies entered the West German with medekati the River Rhine. And the Soviets invaded Berlin in late April, and the two armies met on the river Elbe on April 25, 1945, and the Reichstag was successfully controlled.

This is where massive changes occur, April 12, US President Roosevelt died and Harry Truman replaced. Benito Musollini killed Italian partisans on April 28, 1945. Two days later, Hitler committed suicide and was replaced grand admiral Karl Doenitz. German forces surrendered in Italy on April 29, 1945, and the instrument of surrender was signed at Reims on May 7 and in the ratification on 8 May in Berlin.

On July 11, 1945, the allied leaders met in Potsdam, Germany. Reminded that Japan immediately surrendered, but Japan ignore the appeal, and it is fatal for Japan. Americans dropped the atomic bomb (Little Boy) in the city of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early August. And the bombing of the two Japanese occupation Machuria Soviet invaded and defeated the Kwantung army which is Japan's largest combat forces. Red forces also occupied Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.

On August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered to sign the document of surrender on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri in the United States dated 2 September 1945. And the war came to an end.

In order to maintain peace, the allies established the United Nations on October 24, 1945 that its board contains large countries such US who won the Soviet Union, China, France, and the United Kingdom become a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

And it came to denazification program in Germany, and the ouster of former Nazis from power. The global economy was damaged, but the recovery is done with the currency reform in West Germany, as well as Italy and France that its economy is getting better, in contrast to the United Kingdom whose economy continues to fall until a few decades.

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