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PRECEDENTS
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
The Japanese invasion of Manchuria began when the Kwantung Army (Japanese Army) of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria (Xina).
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Second Italo-Ethiopian War
The Second Italo-Ethiopian War started because Benito Mussolini wanted a modernization and westernization project. Ethiopia was in de middle of two Italian colonies (Eritrea and Somalia), it was an independent and weak country, he wanted to conquer it to have more territories. -
Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland region
Hitler violated one of the conditions of the Versailles treaty, which said that he couldn't park military forces on the borders with France or Belgium.
The area of Rhineland had an strategic importance for France and Germany; the Rhine river was like a natural barrier for them.
There were not many german soldiers and the resources were very poor, but the UK and France didn't respond to the attack because they were with the policy of appeasement. -
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a war between two sides, the Republican side and the national side. It was a war caused by the political, economic and social problems of Spain. Specifically, it was a conflict caused by the failure of a coup led by the army against the Government. The Civil War was one of the hardest wars in Spain. After the victory of General Franco and the nationalist side, a dictatorship began that lasted almost 40 years, until 1975, the year in which Franco died. -
Creation of the Roma-Berlín Axis
The Roma-Berlin axis was considered the peace treaty between Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. It was signed on November 25, 1936. -
Japan encroaches Xina
The tension between them dated back to the first Sino-Japanese war, where Japan had incorporated Taiwan into its territory, and the population of Xina was not happy about that.
The second Sino-japanese war was a conflict between the Republic of Xina and the Empire of Japan. It began when the japanese army started the invasion of northern and eastern China. This war lasted until the end of the Second World War. -
Germany goes into Austria
The Treaty of Versailles had prohibited the union between Germany and Austria, because they feared a Germany too strong, but Hitler decided to break the terms once again because he thought that Austria (his native town) was part of Germany and he wanted to link both powers in one.
On March 12, the German Army crossed the border, and surprisingly they found no resistance from the Austrian army, they were welcomed with joy for the population. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSmyQRAhdCs -
Conference of Munich
After the Treaty of Versailles, Germany lost lots of territories, this situation caused that to much of the German population were governed by other countries.
Hitler was angry and claimed everything that had been taken away because it was unfair. So, Mussolini wanted to make an intermediary between Germany. UK, France and Czechoslovakia until reaching an agreement.
On September 30th, an agreement was signed in which Czechoslovakia recognized that Sudetenland was German property. -
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Lightning War (Blitzkrieg)
Blitzkrieg is the name that receives a military tactic of attack that implies an initial bombing, followed by quick attacks and by surprise and to prevent an enemy from carrying out a defense.
Germany quickly invaded much of Europe and emerged victorious for more than two years because of this tactic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYgRsgdqjB8 -
Germany invades Poland
This event marked the beginning of the Second World War.
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SECOND WORLD WAR
The Second World War was a military conflict between most of the world powers that took place between 1939 and 1945. Only 9 countries were considered neutral at the time of the fall of the Reich It was one of the most important events in history, since most of the world was in a total war. More than one hundred million military personnel participated. A great consequence of this war is that approximately seventy million people died -
UK and France declare war on Germany
Both countries responded to Hitler's invasion of Poland two days ago. France had a pact with Poland that if they were being attacked, they had to declare war to who has attacked them.
The two countries sent ultimatums to Hitler demanding his retreat from Poland, but Hitler declined to respond.
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ATLANTIC WAR
The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest battle of World War II. It began at the beginning of hostilities in September 1939 and ended in the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. It is recognized as a military campaign and a naval battle. The Battle of the Atlantic faces the German sumbarins and the rest of the German navy ships against allied Combos. The combois had a route to the UK and the URSS. They were mainly protected by the British and Canadian marines, as well as by their air forces. -
USSR attacks Finland
Two months after the Second World War started, The Sovietic Union attacked Finland. As a consequence, they had to leave the League of Nations.
The war ended in March 1940, when both countries signed a peace treaty; Finland had to give to the USSR about 10% of its territory, and 20% of its industry.
Even so, they didn't achieve their objective of conquering the whole country; for that reason, the Red Army's combative skills were questioned, which helped Hitler launch Operation Barbarossa. -
Slovakia, Hungary and Romania join the Axis Powers
Romania had always maintained a neutral position, but at the end of 1940, it joined the Axis forces.
To get out of the Great Depression, Hungary had to trade with fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, which meant that it had to fight by its side during World War II. In 1940, Hungary joined the Axis.
Slovakia was occupied by Germany during the Second World War and forced to cooperate with Axis members. In 1940, under pressure from Germany, Slovakia joined the Axis. -
Annexation of Italy with Albania
The Italian invasion of Albania was military campaign by the Kingdom of Italy against the Albanian Kingdom.
Albania was quickly invaded, its king was exiled and the country became part of the Italian Empire as a separate kingdom. -
Germany conquers Denmark and Norway
The conquest of Denmark and Norway for Germany took place on April 9, 1940 and ended on June 10 of the same year, it was hilarious for two months of conquest.
During this day, German warships enter the main Norwegian ports, from Narvik to Oslo, deploying thousands of German troops and occupying Norway. While this was happening, German forces occupy Copenhagen. -
Germany defeats France and occupies Paris
The Battle of France will be invaded by Germany and France and Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg, which will begin on May 10, 1940, and will end on June 25 of the same year. This fact is supposing the end of the War of Joke.
The German army wanted to isolate and surround Allied units that had advanced in Belgium. -
Battle for The Hague
The Battle of The Hague took place on May 10, 1940 in the Netherlands during World War II.
In this battle the Royal Netherlands Army and German paratroopers confronted each other.
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Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg invasion
This day, Axis forces invaded Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg.
The objective was to reach the Ruhr area and conquer France through these countries.
They started the attack with planes, launching paratroopers from them. When they took control of the airport, many more German planes landed. A division with 141 tanks was also prepared to evict the city's troops.
This battle ended with the surrender of the Dutch government to the Nazis.
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Annexation of the USSR with the Baltic republics
The occupation of the Baltic States was the military occupation of the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, by the Soviet Union on June 14, 1940. The Baltic states returned to be independent on August 20-21, 1991. -
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UK WAR
The Battle of England is considered a strategic effort that the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) launched during the summer and autumn of 1940 to obtain air superiority over the British Royal Air Force (RAF), especially on the Hunting Command . It lasted approximately three months, began on June 10 and ended on October 31, 1940. -
Conquest of Yugoslavia and Greece
In April 1941, the Axis forces launched an attack against Yugoslavia called Operation 25 after a putsch in the country annulled the adhesion to the Tripartite Pact. Eleven days later, the Yugoslav Army surrendered, the nation was immediately occupied, the territory was divided and new countries were born, such as Croatia or Montenegro. The occupation of Greece by the Axis forces began on April 6, 1941, after the invasion of Greece. This lasted until the German withdrawal in October 1944. -
Bulgaria joins the Axis Powers
Bulgaria joined the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite Pact.
At the beginning of the Second World War, Bulgaria declared its neutrality, but its king wanted to expand the borders of his country, so it became an ally from Germany and Italy.
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Africa war
The Campaign of North Africa is also known as the War of the Desert, a war that took place in the desert of North Africa between June 10, 1940 and until May 16, 1943.
This war faced the Allies and the Axis Powers. It began with the capture of Fort Capuzzo, Libya, by the British forces to the Italians in June 1940.
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Operation Barbarossa
The Barbarossa operation consists in the German invasion of the URSS. This operation lasts for 6 months, from June 22 of 1941 to December of the same year. This operation made possible the opening of the Eastern Front, the scene of the most important battles in Europe.
In spite of the pact of peace that Hitler and Stalin signed, it was known that at any moment it could be broken since the confrontation was inevitable.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
On this day, the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service attacked by surprise the US military port of Pearl Harbor, located on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii.
The attack pretended to be a preventive action to avoid the USA fleet interfere in the militar actions that Japan was starting to do in the southest Asian.
There were more than 2.400 victims and it triggered that the United States enter in the World War II.
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Germany invades Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad will be a battle in which the Alemanya Nazi and the Aliats will battle the USSR with the object of controlling the city of Stalingrad located south-west of the Soviet Union. This battle will be fought between August 23, 1942 and February 2, 1943. It took about 5 months where many major events such as air strikes, fighting in the city occurred when the Germans flew to Volga and many more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUI1PeVFa38 -
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NAZI DEFEAT
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German ocupation of France
Although Germany had long been trying to conquer France, it did not take place until May 14, 1942.
During the occupation, the French government moved to Vichy and Paris was ruled by French officials approved by the Germans.
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Battle of El Alamein
The first one had stopped the advance of the Axis troops; but on the Second El Alamein battle. The Allied troops won. -
Defeat of Stalingrad
After 200 days of confrontation between the forces of the Soviet Union and the Axis Forces, on February 2, 1943 in Stalingrad, the battle came to an end with what is today considered "the bloodiest battle in the history of the humanity". About 4 million people lost their lives, both civilian and military. It became the victory of the Soviets, and the idea that Adolf Hitler controlled all of Europe was eliminated. At that moment, "the beginning of the end of Nazism" began. -
The USA and the UK land on Sicily
Once Italy and Germany defeated the North African Campaign, the United States and Britain wanted to begin to conquer more territories. The allies decided to go against Italy, hoping that an Allied invasion would eliminate this fascist regime of the war. The Italian Allies campaign began with the invasion of Sicily in July 1943.After 38 days, the USA and The UK led the German and Italian troops from Sicily and prepared to assault the Italian continent. -
NORMANDY LANDINGS
The Normandy Landings was an invasion of invading troops to the Nazi Germany.
It was a combination of invasions, lands and marines with the aim of reaching this territory. Approximately 130,000 soldiers participated. Normandy landings were divided into two parts. A first aerial assault of British, American and Canadian parachutist troops and a landing on the coast of France.
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Liberation of Paris
The liberation of Paris consisted of the entry of the Allies into the city of Paris. It all began with an uprising of the French Resistance in the city, where a short time later the French and American army joined. Spanish Republicans exiled and especially anarchists also participated. -
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Yalta Conference
The Yalta conference was a meeting at the Imperial Palace of Livadia among the main leaders of the allies of the Second World War.
It was a meeting where different world powers claimed what they wanted.
The British wanted to maintain their empire, the Soviets wanted to gain more territory and strengthen their conquests, and the Americans wanted the Soviets to enter the United Nations Organization and participate in the Pacific War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDoxCT5Rj4 -
Soviet troops arrive in Berlin
The battle of Berlin is known for the entry of the Soviets in which two Soviet Army Groups attacked the city from the south and from the east, while a third party withdrew the forces in the north.
This battle lasted about two weeks. It began on April 16 and ended on May 2, 1945 Since January 16, 1945, the Red Army broke the lines of the German front as a result of the Vistula-Oder offensive, thus moving westward through East Prussia, Lower Silesia, Eastern Pomerania and Upper Silesia. -
Death of Benito Mussolini
The dictator was executed by Italian partisans in a small village in northern Italy. He was shot by Walter Audisio, a communist partisan who used the war name of "Colonel Valerio". However, his dead circumstances and the identity of his killer have been a mistery since his dead.
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Death of Adolf Hitler
The death of Adolf Hitler is a mystery. You can not know exactly how Hitler died, there are many theories that make his death possible. Many people say that the dictator fled to Argentina and died 17 years later, others that he committed suicide with a bullet and cyanide, and there are others who claim that he died in Berlin. We can say that one of the most reliable theories is that he committed suicide with a bullet and a cyanide and their superiors burned his body so as not to be humiliated. -
Potsdam conference
The Potsdam conference was a meeting that took place in Potsdam, a German city near Berlin, between July 17 and August 2, 1945. The participants were the Soviet Union, represented by Stalin, the United Kingdom, represented by Winston Churchill and later by Clement Attlee and the United States, represented by the new president, Harry S. Truman. There is talk of the borders of Poland, as it was debated at the Italian conference, as well as the process of eliminating any Nazi order. -
Atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This bombs were produced on the 6th (Hiroshima) and 9th August of 1945 (Nagasaki) by the idea of the Government of the United States, after the Japanese leaders ignore the Declaration of Potsdam.
It's almost impossible to determine how many victims were there, but approximately, 160,000 civilians in Hiroshima and 80,000 in Nagasaki. And of course, many more people died because of the exposure to radiation.
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Japanese capitulation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxEVmoDGDsg On August 6 and 9, Americans launched atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In addition, on August 9, the URSS declared war on Japan and launched a surprise attack against the Japanese colony of Manxukuo. On September 2, 1945 Japan surrendered, it was at that time that the end of the Second World War ended. Days before, the Japanese Imperial Navy had lost all ability to conduct operations and it was evident an invasion allied to the country. -
Creation of the United Nations (UN)
It was created to keep international peace and security and to achieve international cooperation to solve global problems. The name was used for the first time on January 1, 1942, and it was created by the USA President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, when representatives of 26 nations approved it in order to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. The UN officially began to exist on October 24, 1945, after it was signed by many countries.
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NUREMBERG TRIALS
This processes were a military tribunals held by the allied nations at the end of the Second World War, in which were sanctioned the responsibilities of leaders, officials and collaborators of Hitler's regime.
They were accused for crimes against peace, against humanity, war crimes and conspiration.
In this trials, there were 24 defendants; 3 were absolved, 4 were sentenced to between 10 and 20 years in prison, three were sentenced to life imprisonment, and 12 were sentenced to death. -
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Paris Conference
The Paris Conference began on the 25 of April of 1946 and finished the 12 of July of 1946.
The representatives of the United States, the URSS, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and France participated in this event.
The main objective of this conference was to draw the political map after the Second World War. They didn't reach an agreement, but even so the borders of 1938 were maintained for Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Italy.
