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Topic 5: The World War Two - Coggle Diagram
Topic 5: The World War Two
Last days of War
The United States and the USSR wanted to extend their power and political influence throughout the world.
The USSR advanced through Eastern Europe and occupied part of Germany.
Germany and Japan were defeated.
The War Fronts
The Eastern Front
It is one of the bloodiest battles in history, with nearly two million military and civilian casualties.
The USSR succeeded in stopping the German advance
The Western Front
The Soviet Union pressed for two years for the opening of a second front in the west.
British, Canadian and U.S. troops train in southern England for a year before being given the green light to invade.
Postwar situation
Germany was divided into four Allied occupation zones.
Palestine was under British control, in the midst of the confrontation between Arabs and Jews.
Capitalists and the Soviets who adopted the communist regime.
Background
Formed a political and military "axis" with Italy and Japan.
in 1935 Germany rearmament and contravened the Treaty of Versailles
Germany signed a non-aggression treaty with the USSR.
A destroyed world
Concentration and extermination camps, created by the Nazi regime, were discovered.
Jews, gypsies, communists, socialists and democrats were murdered on the orders of Hitler and the Nazi leadership.
60 million dead, countless crippled and traumatized, homes broken and villages razed to the ground
The War Begins
Germany waged a blitzkrieg and defeated the Poles in a matter of weeks
8 months later, they conquered 8 European countries
Germany has signed the Molotov Pact, in which the Soviet Union agrees to Ribbentrop's partition of Poland.
Stalin is taken by surprise and the Soviets are forced to retreat.
