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Meanwhile, existing victorious Allies such as France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Romania gained territories, while new states were created out of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the Russian and Ottoman Empires.
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a democratic government, later known as the Weimar Republic, was created. The interwar period saw strife between supporters of the new republic and hardline opponents on both the right and left.V
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In the aftermath of the Reichstag fire, Hitler created a totalitarian single-party state led by the Nazis.
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The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia) and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire (also known as Abyssinia). The war resulted in the military occupation of Ethiopia and its annexation into the newly created colony of Italian East Africa
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contributed to widespread concerns that the next major war would include extensive terro
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It should be noted that five months later, Germany attacked Poland, initiating World War II.
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was a global war that was underway by 1939 and ended in 1945 and thy It involved the vast majority of the world's nations and the It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units the army use a including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare.
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who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and the two wars merged in 1941. This article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia
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The Netherlands and Belgium were overrun using blitzkrieg tactics in a few days and weeks, respectively.[70] The French-fortified Maginot Line and the Allied forces in Belgium were circumvented by a flanking movement through the thickly wooded Ardennes region
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Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned and annexed territories between themselves of their European neighbours and The United Kingdom and the other members of the British Commonwealth were the only major Allied forces continuing the fight against the Axis, with battles taking place in North Africa as well as the .
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intending to offer him the post of commander in chief of French forces in North Africa after the invasion. However, Giraud would take no position lower than commander in chief of all the invading forces, a job already given to Eisenhower
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asked for a clandestine conference with a senior Allied General in Algeria. Major General Mark W. Claone of Eisenhower's senior commander was dispatched to Cherchell in Algeria aboard the British submarine HMS Seraph
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The landings were split between three beaches—two west of Algiers and one east. Though some landings went to the wrong beaches, this was immaterial because of the extremely low level of French opposition. All the coastal batteries had been neutralized by French resistance,
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pressed the U.S. and Britain to start operations in Europe and open a second front to reduce the pressure of German forces on the Soviet troops. and landing in Occupied Europe as soon as possible, the British commanders believed that such a course would end in disaster. An attack on French North Africa was proposed instead, which would clear the Axis Powers from North Africa
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decisively, at Stalingrad. In 1943, with a series of German defeats in Eastern Europe and at the 1943, with a series of German defeats in Eastern Europe, the Allied invasion of Italy, and American victories in the Pacific
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of Tunis before a counterattack at Djedeida thrust them back. In January 1943, German and Italian troops under General Erwin Rommel—retreating westward from Libya—reached Tunisia.
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the Allies launched a series of attacks in Italy against the line at Monte Cassino and attempted to outflank it with landings at Anzio.[202] By the end of January, a major Soviet offensive expelled German
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American victories in the Pacific, the Axis lost the initiative and undertook strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944 that is a the Western Allies invaded France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies.
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German defeat promised to end the greatest threat to the Communist government Vladimir Lenin and Stalin had imposed on Russia and its various appendages from the Ukraine to Siberia.
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The war in Europe ended with the capture of Berlin by Soviet and Polish troops and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945.and the the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima on 6 August, and Nagasaki on 9 August. With an invasion of the Japanese archipelago imminent, and the Soviet Union having declared war on Japan by invading Manchuria
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Flags remained at half-staff for the remainder of the 30-day mourning period.[4][5] Truman said of dedicating the victory to Roosevelt's memory and keeping the flags at half-staff that his only wish was "that Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to witness this day."[3] Later that day,
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Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. Germany was aut
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German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg
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ythat is will Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe
