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The invasion of Poland.
It was called Fall Weiss operation. Nazy germany wanted to join with Poland so Hitler invaded Poland the 1sr of September. The Polish surrendered one month later, the 5th of October, and Poland finished his Second Republic. Poland became a German territory and by a secret treaty, in theory, half of Poland had to be given to USSR. Obeausly it never happened.
This battle sets the beggining of SWW because Britain declared war on Germany. Poland was a Britain's ally. -
Operation Pied Piper
One of the most emotionally wrenching decisions made by the British government during World War II was its decision to relocate its children out of urban centers to locations where the risk of bombing attacks was low or non-existent. Called Operation Pied Piper, millions of people, most of them children, were shipped to rural areas in Britain as well as overseas to Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. It was the biggest population movement in British history. -
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Second World War
The SWW was an international confilc between almost all the countries of the world. Opposite of the FWW, in this war aircraft and tanks were unlimited. This was a war of rapid momevements, without thenches. There were two alliances:
Allies: GB, France and later USA and the USSR. All capitalists escept USSR which was comunist.
Axis powers: Germany, Italy and Japan all fascists.
Allies won the war when germans surrendered in 1945, defeated by the USSR.
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Phoney War
From October to april 1939 didn't happen nothing. This is called Phoney War: France and Britain were waiting for Hitler's next move and Hitler was waiting to see if they would make peace. Soon Hitler realized they wouldn't, so the Germans planned an offensive in the West. -
U-boats attacks and food rationing.
German U-boats attacked British food supplies. Lots of food were lost in the ocean so Britain started rationing in January 1940 until 4 July 1954. By 1943 the U-Boats were less of a threat but food rationing continued. -
Operation Barbarossa
Operation Barbossa had been secretly planned in 1940. Hitler hoped to destroy the Communist system and exploit the USSR's natural resources. Germans were defeated by the USSR when they were arriving Russia because its equipment wasn't prepared for so cold temperatures. The Soviets held the Germans then pushed them back -
Operation Dynamo
Operation Dynamo was the evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and the early hours of 4 June 1940, because the British, French, and Belgian troops were cut off by the German army during the Battle of Dunkirk. The evacuation was ordered by Winston Churchill. -
El alemein
The campaign was fought between the Allies and Axis powers, many of whom had colonial interests in Africa dating from the late 19th century. The Allied war effort was dominated by the British Commonwealth and exiles from German-occupied Europe. The United States entered the war in 1941 and began direct military assistance in North Africa on 11 May 1942.
The allies (British General Montgomery's ''desert rats') defeated the german and italian forces led by Rommel. -
Battle of Britain.
When Luftwaffe night-bombers unintentionally (and against orders) attacked London in August 1940, Churchill ordered a retaliatory raid on Berlin. This caused an enraged Hitler to order intensified bombing of targets in and around London.
Luftwaffe was defeated by the RAF because they were highly trained, planned its strategy (it was to risky to made all plans at the same time) and were figthing near their bases so their fuel lasted more.
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The Blitz
The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Germany during the Second World War. Between 7 September 1940 and 21 May 1941 there were major raids on 16 British cities. Over a period of 267 days, London was attacked 71 times, Birmingham, Liverpool and Plymouth eight times, Bristol six, Glasgow five, Southampton four, Portsmouth three, and there was also at least one large raid on another eight cities. -
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Occupation and resistance
Both Germany (Hitler) and USSR (Stalin) were living a dictatorship. This countries ocuppied other countries in order to gain more territory. This occupied countries didn't want to be occupied and in many areas there were really active resistance movements. Whoever told something against the leader was sent to Internment (Hitler's prison camps) or to Gulags (Stalin's prison champs) -
Internment
Internment were prison camps of Nazi Germany. There were collected gypsis, jews, communist... seen as a threat for the state and were torutured, used as slaves or executed there. Two main Internment were Auschwitz and Treblinka. -
Gulags
Gulags were labor camps of USSR. There were ''enemies of state'' seen as a threat because they were against the government ideas. Also ''enemies of state were executed in Siberia or used as slaves. This photo shows the number of gulags that existed. -
The Pacific War.
The Pacific War began on 7/8 December 1941 with the invasion of Thailand for the invasion of British Malaya, and the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan. The Pacific War saw the Allied powers pitted against the Empire of Japan and later against the Axis allies. The war culminated in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other large aerial bombing attacks by the United States, resulting the surrender of Japan and the end of fighting during World War II on 15 August 1945 -
Pearl Harbor: Different interpretations
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese was a surprise military attack conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. After this USA joined the war.
Some historians say that Roosevelt (US president) had been warned of the attack but that this warnings had noot been passed on. Oters believe that Churchill may have kept information about the attack, realizing that a ''surprise'' attack was a surefire way of binging the USA into the war. -
The Holocaust: Final Solution
The Holocaust was the mass murder of approximately six million Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Hitler.
Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds were killed.
The Final Solution is the most deadly phase of the Holocaust. Himmler was in charge of this. Gas chabers were used for mass murders. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea was a major naval battle in the Pacific between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. The battle was the first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first in which neither side's ships sighted or fired directly upon the other. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was the most important naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The United States Navy decisively defeated the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) attack against Midway Atoll, inflicting irreparable damage on the Japanese fleet. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare." -
Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. The heavy losses inflicted on the German army make it arguably the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war. Afterwards, the German forces never regained the initiative in war in the East -
D-Day
On 6 June 1944 - D-Day - Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. This successful action signalled the beginning of the end of the Second World War: it was the first stage in the liberation of western Europe and a major step towards the defeat of Nazi Germany. The campaign was code-named Operation Overlord. -
General Elections in Britain
Labour Party won the General Elections. This government set up the Welfare State by The National Insurance Act, the National Health Service and building New towns and new housing -
Second World War: Results
The principale result were: Cities destroyed, creation of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1949, against comunist USSR), Warsaw Pact (USSR organisation, 1955, against NATO), Marshall Plan (USA aid for Europe and Japan to rebuild)
U.S. main allies and Russia for their obvious differences, Capitalism and Communism began to collide in some respects. The result was the Cold War. Capitalist and Comunist worlds were separated by the Iron Curtain (Winton Churchill's term) -
The end of the war in Europe
After 1942 German forces were retreating and 3 years later were defeated in Berlin on 2 September 1945. The causes of the defeat were:
Failure to defeat Britain in 1940.
Poor war strategy specially on the Russian Front.
Resistance to the Nazis in the Occupied Countries.
The US impact on the War, in supplies and troops.
The massive size and increasing skill of the Russian army who faced the bulk of the German forces.
The turning point was 1942: El Alemain, Stalingrade, Battle of the Atlantic.
