Topic 5 - The World War Two

  1. BACKGROUND

Since 1935, Germany was rearmed and contrary the Treaty of Versailles.

Germany
constituted a political and military “axis” with Italy and Japan.

Finally, 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.

  1. THE WAR BEGINS
  • Britain and France have agreed to defend Poland under the terms of the 1918 Treaty of Versailles.
  • 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 Begins Germany has signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, with the Soviet Union agreeing to carve up Poland.
  1. THE WAR FRONTS

In 1943, the allies invaded Italy and advanced to
north.

USA joined to the War on December 1941, when Japan’s forces bombed the US naval base of Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

A German offensive in August 1942 stalls and the Red Army holds on in Stalingrad until the Russian winter arrives

The Eastern Front

The Western Front

Asia-Pacific War Front

  1. LAST DAYS OF WAR

Germany and Japan were defeated.

On February in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt from USA, Winston Churchill from Great Britain and Stalin from USSR met in the Yalta Conference.

This Conference was about the German occupation and the disarmament, but also the creation of a supranational organism to preserve the peace in the future.

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  1. A DESTROYED
    WORLD

60 million dead, countless crippled and traumatized, broken homes and razed villages.
European cities, especially the German ones,

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