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THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1939-1945) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Democratic countries did not know how to stop the authoritarian regimes. The US isolated and Great Britain and France were solving their internal problems.
  - - - Italy and Germany took part in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
      - Japan occupied Manchuria (1931) and china (1937)
      - Italy occupied Ethiopia (1935) and Albania
      - Germany developed a territorial expansion policy, creaed the vast empire (Third Reich), remilitarised Rhineland, joined Rome-Berlin Axis and the Anti-Comintern Pact (1936). Occupied Austria and demanded Czechislovakia, in the Munich Conference Hitler promised to France and Britain to expand no further (1938). Hitler invaded Prague, the Axis alliance was renewed as Pact of Steel, signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Stalin, began invading Poland, and the Allies declared the war on Germany (1939).
- - - - Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa and attacked the USSR, the USSR joined the Allied forces (1941).
        
        Japan conquered Pacific islands and destroyed the US fleet in Pearl Harbor and US entered the war.
  - - - Hitlers first failure was the assault of Stalingard (1942-3). A lot of people from both sides died, the Soviets took back Ukraine and ended the siege of Leningrad (1944)
        
        -Liberation of Europe by Normandy landings by British and Americans troops (1944), battle of Kursk pushing Germans out of Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, Allied bombings in German cities
        
        Allied armies occupied Germany on 26th April 1945 with Berlin sieged Hitler commited suicide on 13th April, Soviets conquest Reichstag on 8th May, Germany surrendered.
        
        To force Japan surrender US President threw atomic bombs on Hirosima and Nagasaki (Aug, 1945)
- - - - Countries needed to mobilise peoples consciences
        Allied campains praised democratic values
        Axis powers avocated superiority of the Aryan race
    - - Annexed territories: Austria, Alsace, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Bohemia, West Poland became part of Germany
        
        Satellite states: Finland, Romania, Italy allies of Germany
        
        Occupied terriories: Northern France, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Greece, were mistreated
    - - Nazi ideology was xenophobist, Hitler chose the Jews to extermination, this was the Holocaust and millions of humans died.
        
        They were persecuted, in 1940 moved into ghettos, 1941 beginning of the masacres, 1942 Nazis planned the final solution, concentration camps.
    - - Joined the workforce in war industry, also served as doctors. In the USSR they fought in the Red Army as soldiers.
    - - Was a well planned conflict that required state intervention. Shortages of food forced countries to rationing which stimulated the black market.
        
        Purpose of nazi occupation was to exploit the subjugated territories for the benefit of Germany
- - - - Weapons, bombs and aeroplanes increased capacity for destruction
        
        Destruction of property, looting of cities and destruction of industries
        
        Population displacements, 13 million people displaced wandering Europe
  - - - Conference of Yalta (1945), partition of Germany and Austria into four zones and creation of United Nations
        
        Third conference in Postdam (1945). Atlee, Truman and Stalin reached an agreement to return all European territories
        
        Paris Peace Conference (1946). Peace treaties with Germany. The treaty with Austria was not signed until 1955