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WWII:ORIGINS

AND

CONSEQUENCE

S


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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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MunichAgreement_.jpg


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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
http://01varvara.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/i-swear-to-defeat-the-enemy/i-swear-to-defeat-the-enemy-2/


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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

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