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Reading and Writing Skills for
Students of Literature in English:
Postwar; Postmodern; Postcolonial
Enric Monforte
Jacqueline Hurtley
Bill Phillips
The Second
World War
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Adolf Hitler, the Führer of
the German National
Socialist (Nazi) party,
preached a brand of
fascism predicated on antiSemitism and racism. Hitler
promised to secure
additional Lebensraum for
the German people who,
he contended, deserved
more as members of a
superior race. Treaties
between Germany, Italy,
and Japan in 1936-1937
brought into being the
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.
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Poland
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September 1, 1939 German armies invade Poland.
France and Britain declare war.
Battle of Britain
Summer of 1940.
Hitler unable to invade
Britain until RAF
neutralized.
RAF defeat Luftwaffe.
September 17, 1940,
Hitler postpones
invasion.
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North Africa (1940-1941)
February 1941.
General Rommel with the Afrika
(tank) Korps, launched a
successful counter-offensive
against the British in Libya,
expelling them from the
country.
November 1942. American,
British, and Free French troops
fighting together under
Generals Eisenhower and
Montgomery arrived in Morocco
and Algeria.
May 13 1942. 275,000
Germans and Italians
surrendered.
Rommel
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Eisenhower
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Montgomery
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Soviet Union
June 22, 1941, 3 million
Axis troops invade
USSR.
Jan 31 1943. Soviets
defeat Germans at Battle
of Stalingrad. Germans
retreat.
We will defend Moscow!
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USA joins
allies
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December 1941. Japanese attack Pearl Harbor bringing
United States into war.
December 11. Germany and Italy declare war on United
States.
Italy
July 1943.
Allies land on Sicily.
September. Italian
government signs
armistice. Germans
occupy northern Italy.
Allies land in mainland
Italy
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Benito Mussolini
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June 6, 1944, D-Day: Allies establish beachheads in
Normandy. June: Allies enter Rome. August 25: Paris
liberated. September 11: Allies cross German border.
May 8 1945: VE day. August 6: Hiroshima. August 9:
Nagasaki. August 14. Japan surrenders.
61 countries
with 1.7 billion
people, three
quarters of the
world's
population,
took part.
Deaths
USSR more than 10 million military and 10 million
civilian;
China 3.5 million and 10 million;
Germany 3.5 million and 3.8 million;
Poland 120,000 and 5.3 million;
Japan 1.7 million and 380,000;
Yugoslavia 300,000 and 1.3 million;
Romania 200,000 and 465,000;
France 250,000 and 360,000;
British Empire 452,000 and 60,000;
Italy 330,000 and 80,000;
United States; 407,318
Hungary 120,000 and 280,000;
Czechoslovakia 10,000 and 330,000.