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World War II
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Beginning of the War
Invasion of Poland was the attack on Poland undertaken by Nazi Germany, the purpose of the invasion was to partition the Polish territory at the end of the operation. In fact the campaign ended on October 6, 1939, with the division and annexation of Poland by Germany and by the Soviet Union.World War II occurred due to a number of factors. One must remember the end of the First World War to understand them. -
war with Germany begins
At 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939, the pre-dawn skies lit up over the Baltic Sea as the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on a Polish fortress on the Westerplatte Peninsula as assault troops hidden aboard the vessel stormed the shoreline. The venerable ship that had seen action in World War I fired the first salvos of what would be a second global conflagration. Without a declaration of war, 1.5 million troops stormed Nazi Germany’s 1,750-mile border with Poland. -
THE RUSSIAN-FINNISH WAR
The Winter War, also known as the Finnish Soviet War or Finnish Rustic War, began when the Soviet Union attacked Finaladia on 30 November 1939, three months after the start of World War II.
Moreover, although the Finns managed to maintain their sovereignty and attract international goodwill, the harsh peace terms imposed by the Soviet Union resulted in the Finnish population's desire for revenge and its approach to Hitler's Germany, which would be reflected in the continuation war.
