World War II

The WWII is the period of time between the invasion of Poland to the dropping to the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Exactly, between the years 1939 to 1945.

Events of 1939:

A lot of people think that the Second World War was originated by Hitler and the Nazis, but there were a lot of events before and after the apparition of this group, Like for example the Spanish Civil war, the declaration of war between France and Britain to Germany… All this events took place in the 1939.

France joined to Britain to declarate the war to Germany, because USA supplied Britain a lot of essential things.

Events of 1940:

There were a war between Finland and Russia which concluded in March, but in the following months, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway. In this war, Denmark surrendered immediately, but the Norwegians fought with the help of France and Britain.

On 10 May, Germany invaded France, Belgium and Holland.

In France, there were signed an armistice between this country and Germany. This armistice consists that the person who governed the country controlled only the southern and eastern parts of France, and Germany controlled the rest.

When Hitler invaded France, he change the objective, and want to invaded Britain. Germany attacked the factories of the bigger cities of the UK.

Events of 1941:

In this year, most of Europe was controlled by the Nazis. On the other hand, Greece and Tobruk defeat Mussolini's armies, but, Germany arrived and invade Greece and Yugoslavia.

The Japanese organized a surprise attack to the USA aries, in Hawaii.

So, with this reason, the global conflict began to be more important and Germany declare the war to the United States; Japan invaded the Philippines, Burma and Hong Kong.

Events of 1942:

In this year, the Japanese continiued with its expansion in Borneo, Java and Sumatra.

The USA sea-based aircraft destroyed four Japanese carriers and cruiser.

In Germany, the Jewish people was murdered by the Nazis when they reached the Allies,and the United States wanted to avenge this type of crimes.

Events of 1943:

One of the most important Hitler defeats was in Stalingrad.

By the end of may, Mussolini had fallen, and in September, the italians surrended to the Allies, prompting a German invasion into the northern Italy.

Mussolini establiseh a fascist republic in the north.

Russian recapted Kiev and Kharkov from Germany, and they began to bomber Germany.

Events of 1944:

In this year, Japan began new attacks to China. They captured a lor of territory in the south of the country, and also, they add new adquisitions in the central and northern areas.

Russia counterattack Germany in June. They captured 350000 German soldiers. At the end of the summer, the Russians took Bucharest, Estonia and Budapest.

Events of 1945:

Hitler killed himself, and two days after his dead, Mussolini had been capturated by the Italian partisans. Also, the Western Allies raced the Russians to be the first into Berlin. The Russians won. With this events, the was in Europe was over.

The Vritish advanced in Burma, and the Americans invaded Iwo Jima. The Philippines and Okinawa followed and Japanese forces began to withdraw from China.

The Allied wanted to use an atomic bomb against Japan, but finally, the new American president did not use it.

Two atomic bombs atacked Japan, one in Hiroshima, and the other in Nagasaki.

The WWII is the biggest conflict in history. It had lasted almost six years. Some 100 million people had been militarised and 50 million had been killed. Of those people who had died, 15 million were soldiers, 20 million were Russian civilian, 6 millions were Jews and over 4 million were Poles.


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