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The World War Two
THE WAR BEGINS
Germany had signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with the Soviet Union agreeing to carve up Poland.
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Hitler wants to attack Britain in the summer of 1940, but before he launches a ground invasion, he must gain air superiority by destroying the Royal Air Force.
THE WAR FRONTS
The Eastern Front: A German offensive in August 1942 stalls and the Red Army holds on in Stalingrad until the Russian winter arrives.
The Western Front: In 1943, the allies invaded Italy and advanced to north.
Asia-Pacific War Front: USA joined to the War on December 1941, when Japan?s forces bombed the US naval base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
BACKGROUND
Since 1935, Germany was rearmed and contrary the Treaty of Versailles. They produced airplanes, tanks and modern weapons.
Germany signed a non-aggression treaty with the USSR (URSS). On September of 1939, they invaded Poland, so Britain and France declared them the war.
UNITED NATIONS
FOUNDATION: In 1945, in the city of San Francisco, the letter of the United Nations Organization (UN), signed by 51 States, was signed and joined by others in the following years.
Functionating: The UN has a General Assembly that brings together all member states and acts as a forum for global problems.
LAST DAYS OF WAR
United States and USSR wanted to spread their power and political influence around the world. On February in 1945 Yalta Conference, was about the German occupation and the disarmament, but also the creation of a supranational organism to preserve the peace in the future.
A DESTROYED WORLD
60 million dead, countless crippled and traumatized, broken homes and razed villages. European cities, especially the German ones, were destroyed.
POST WAR SITUTIONS
Two blocks of countries were gestated: capitalists and Soviets that adopted the communist regime. Germany was divided intofour occupation zones of the Allies. In the Middle East, Syria and Lebanon called for independence from France. Palestine was under British control, amid the confrontation between Arabs and Jews. African countries demanded independence.