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The totalitarian regimes desire for war
As we have seen the fascist regimes in italy and nazi germnay developed expansionist policies that aspired to expand their territories and chalenge the league of nations . -
Escalating agression
In asia, Japan sought to expand its territory at the expense of China. It occupied Manchuria in 1931 and invaded China in 1937.
In Africa , Italy took possesion of Ethiopia in 1935 as part of its mission to extend its colonial empire. In Europe, it also invaded Albania.
Italy and Germany took place in the Spanish Civil War .
Germany create a vast empiere. In 1936, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler remitalrised the Rhineland. -
The weakness of the democracies
The weakness of the democracies and league of nations failure to respond to nazi and fascist hostiles encourage to a war.
The munich conference 1938 was convened by hitler following protest by france, great britain and other powers over his policy of expansionism. It ended with the democracies accepting Hitlers promises to expand no further . -
Preparing for the war
In 1936 germany entered into the Rome-Berlin axis alliance with Italy.Wich was renewed in 1939 as the Pact of Steel.
In 1936 Germany entered into the Anti-Comitern Pact with Japan.
In 1939 France and Great Britain pleged Poland their military support if necessary.
To prevent the USSR Hitler signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939 with Stalin.
In response the allies Great Britain and France declare war with Germany wich marked the bigining of the WW2. -
axis victories 1939-1941
Following the invasion of Poland, Hitler launched Blitzkrieg attacks. This type of war made surprise attacks and quick advances possible. The country was divided between Germany and the USSR
In 1940 Germany invaded western Europe. Great Britain was the only country wich resist. The Lutwaffe (Germanys air force bombed Britain, know as the Battle of Britain
Britain resist and The Battle of the Atlantic was formed to cut their supply lines
In 1941 Hitler attack the USSR and they join the allies -
germany invades poland
germany start and invasion of poland using the treaty of nazi soviet pact, in wich germany and the ussr divide poland. -
pearl harbour 1941
the japanese atack the us military harbour in the hawai islands -
allies victories 1942 1945
The Americans stopped Japanese advances in the Pacific and reconquer occupied territories.
In north Africa the British defeat the Germans at El Alamein.
The German assault on Stalingrad 1942-1943 was Hitler major failure. The city resist several months after wich the German Field Marshal Paulus surrendered. After this soviets attack and take bach Ukraine.
The liberation of Europe was hastened by the Normandy landings by British and Americans troops.They began advance west and USSR throu east -
battle of stalingrad 1942
the german forces had been wining but this was their first defeat -
theran conference
it was attended by Chuchill,Roosvelt and Stalin. They took joint military measures to speed up the end of the war, -
the D day 1944 normandy
the allies start the invasion of west europe in the beaches of normandy -
postdam conference
the new leaders Atlee,Truman and Stalin reached the agreement to return all the European territories annexed by Germany, separate Austria and dismantle the military industry and punish the nazy leaders. -
Yalta conference
this meeting agreed denazification and partition of germany and austria into four occupied zones and the division of berlin and vienna.
they also created the UN (United Nations) -
The end of the war
Both Allied armies occupied Germany and met at the river Elbe on 26 April 1945. Hitler committed sucide on 30 April and , on 8 May , Germany surrendered. -
End of the pacific war
In the pacific the Americans had conquered most of the territories occupied by the Jpanese. But Jpon continued its fanatical defence , symbolised by the kamikaces.
To force Jpon to surrender , US president Truman decided to use a new weapon the atomic bomb, wich was dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Aproximately 150k people died . Japan surrendered on 2 September. The ww2 was end . -
Paris Peace Conference
peace was sing with germany's other allies were drawn up during this conference -
Universal Declaration of Human Rights