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WWII:ORIGINS
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CONSEQUENCE
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Origins
:ainstream theory Germany s unresolved status following WWI Harsh reparations
Ethnic German minorities in neighbouring
countries :ther theories Role of financial capital
- -Soviet German collaboration in the run up
to WWII
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Policy of appeasement
unich Conference September 1938 Organized by Mussolini , ,Hitler Daladier Chamberlain : -Result German speaking parts
(of Czechoslovakia the Sudeten)ceded to Germany
Czechoslovak delegates presented
with a
fait accompli (= signed)agreement = ;breach of international law
; moral crisis boost to Hitler spolicies
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Peace in our time
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-Lead up to the war
-olotov Ribbentrop pact August 1939 -Non aggression pact signed for
10 years Came as a shock to Western allies Secret clauses on balance of
power Dividing sphere of influence in
, , ,the Baltics Poland FinlandRomania
, /Afterwards Britain France enteredan alliance with Poland Awaiting a second Munich
[ ]Agreement
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PHASE ONE (1939 1941)
WWII
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1939
, :September 1 1939 invasion of Poland Blitzkrieg , In western Europe phoney war /
,strange war France Britain abstainingfrom military operations and hoping toreach an agreement
,September 17 USSR annexed eastern Poland(in keeping with secret clauses of the
- )Molotov Ribbentrop agreement ,September 27 Poland capitulated
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1939
, :September 1 1939 invasionof Poland
Blitzkrieg , In western Europe phoney
/ war strange war ,France Britain abstainingfrom military operations
and hoping to reach anagreement
,September 17 USSR annexed(eastern Poland in keeping
with secret clauses of the-Molotov Ribbentrop)agreement
,September 27 Polandcapitulated
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1939
( !) :Poland divided again into three parts- -German controlled West( ,Germanization arrival of German
)settlers
- -Soviet controlled East- -German colonized centre( )source of cheap labour
: - 1940 pro Soviet coups d etat in Baltic( , );states Estonia Latvia annexed by USSR
: -November 1939 March 1940 SovietFinnish War
:December 1939 USSR expelled from Leagueof Nations
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1940
: Western offensive ( ,Scandinavia Denmark
)Norway
:Benelux circumventedthe Maginot Line :Britain
Battle of Dunkirk
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1940
- (Franco German Armistice at Compigne June, )22 1940
Germany in possession of Europe s nearly/entire economic military resources
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1940
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1940
:May Winston Churchillas PM
,Promising blood sweatand tears
Rejecting negotiationswith Germany
Vowing to eradicateNazism
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1940
:Summer Battle of Britain -Carpet bombing of
, ,factories railwayscities
,1 700 German aircraftdestroyed
First major failure ofGerman military
strategy
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1940
:September TheAxis ( -Berlin- )Rome Tokyo
Joined by,Hungary,Romania,Bulgaria,Slovakia
Finland
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1941
,Italy annexed YugoslaviaGreece
New front in NorthernAfrica
US :policy isolationist
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PHASE TWO (1941 - 1943)
WWII
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1941
Operation Barbarossa , :June 22 1941 without a declaration
,of war Blitzkrieg from the Arcticall the way down to the Black Sea
, ,Ukraine Belarus Baltics fast overrun :USSR had been weakened
- (Stalin produced famine in the wake of)forced collectivization of agriculture
-Terror of 1937 saw two thirds ofexperienced army commanders executed as enemies of the people
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1941
:USSR war economy ,Evacuation of people equipment (Great Patriotic War first since
)Napoleon
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1941
:Starting in September blockade of Leningrad 00 days
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1941
:December Germans50km from
Moscow :But harsh winter : Hitler war on
Communism
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1941
- :Anti Hitler coalition Atlantic Charter
( ):August 1941+Churchill Roosevelt
:Objective destructionof Fascism
-Blueprint for post war( ,institutions UN
)GATT Joined by USSR
The Great Troika 1942 joined by another
26 countries Washington
Declaration
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1941
, :December 7 1941 PearlHarbor
US joined WWII
Biggest battlefield of all
time USSR pushing for a second
front in Europe
/UK US allies creating
delays Seeds of diverging postwar
political goals between, /USSR UK US
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PHASE THREE (1943)
WWII
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:1943 A breakthrough
:Spring 1942 German army,in Southern Russia
Caucasus Seeking control over local
oil fields Unsuccessful
:February 1943 Battle ofStalingrad ( )Volgograd
,300 000 German troopsbesieged
,90 000 died End of the myth of Germaninvincibility
-Anti German resistance allacross USSR
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:1943 A breakthrough
:Summer 1943 Nazi defeat in the Battle of( , )Kursk 3 000 tanks deployed
, ,By end 1943 liberation of Kiev parts ofUkraine
/Allies landing in Sicily south Italy Downfall of Mussolini
, :November 28 December 1 1943Tehran Conference
Agreement on second European front( , )France May 1944
: Objective Germany s unconditional defeat
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PHASE FOUR (1944 MAY 1945)
WWII
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1944
:January Summer 1944,liberation of Leningrad
, ,Ukraine Belarus Polandeast of the Wisla River
, :June 6 1944
-D Day
;Operation Overlord Allies( )landing in Normandy France
/ ,Liberation of Paris FranceBelgium
, :Germany September 1944 Total mobilization ,V1 V2 missiles
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1944
:August 1944 Warsaw Uprising Staling instructed Soviet
(troops sitting across the[ ] ) Wisla Vistula River not
to interfere ,200 000 dead City of Warsaw razed to the
ground , , ,Separately 4 000 15 000
Polish officers murderedin Katyn forest by Sovietsecret agents
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1945
Conferences of the Great:Troika
February Yalta Idea of Allies postwar
cooperation Weakened by Roosevelt s
death in April 45( )replaced by Truman
,Upon victory Germany to
+be divided into 3 1occupation zones Idea of postwar
Nuremberg trials forwar criminals
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1945
:April 1945 UN Charter( )San Francisco
51 countries Poland s borders Defeating Japan
USSR s territorial. ( . .claims vs Japan e g
southern part
)of Sakhalin island
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:1945 End of WWII in Europe
:Spring Allies crossedthe Rhine River
( )Germany :April 25 US and Soviet
troops meet on the ElbeRiver
End of Fascism in Italy ,Liberation of Poland
,Czechoslovakia Balkans ( ,Berlin 600 000 German
)troops besieged
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May 1945
/ :May 8 9 German capitulation
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May 1945
Potsdam Conference 17 July 2 August , ,Germany and Berlin
+divided 3 1 :4 D s Germany to be
-De nazified -De militarized
-De monopolized
Democratized
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CONSEQUENCES
WWII
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Total war ,40 countries
110 million troops -40 50 million dead
: ;USSR 20 million:Poland 4;million
:Yugoslavia.1 7 million
Bipolar worldCold War Iron Curtain