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2nd World War
The Second World War was the largest and richest loss
previously conflict in human history. Cause of the war was the
attack of Nazi Germany on Poland on 1 September 1939.
After successful campaigns including against France (1940),
the German Wehrmacht won because of the use of modern
weapons (fast tank shocks).
They suffered in the Battle of Britain their first defeat.
The first successful attack on the Soviet Union was on June 2nd.
In1941 it ended in a disaster for the German Wehrmacht due to
the size of the country and the early onset of winter. The failure
to capture of Stalingrad, which ended with the almost complete
destruction of the German 6th Army, is regarded as a turning
point in 2nd World War.
With the Japanese attack on the American naval base at Pearl
Harbor on 7 December 1941, the United States of America
were drawn into the war. Due to the concentrated war
production of the United States, the Japanese army came but
soon on the defensive.
The Allies landed on June 6, 1944 (D -Day) in Operation
"Overlord " on the French coast of Normandy. Now Hitler's
Germany was surrounded from all sides, but he took the
hopeless war on. On April 30, 1945, when the Red Army only
several hundreds of meters was removed from the
Führerbunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. A few days later,
on 8 May 1945 surrendered the Nazi leadership.
But the War was not over. The USA and the Japanese were still
in War. After the Allies capturing the island of Okinawa in an 82day battle, Allied planners began preparing for the invasion of
the Japanese home islands.
Allied salvation came in August 1945. An American B-29
dropped a single atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima,
obliterating the town. When no Japanese surrender was
forthcoming, a second bomb fell on Nagasaki. While the world
was shocked by the high number of primarily civilian casualties
and massive destruction wrought by a single explosive device,
in fact far more Japanese had been killed in the firebombings
that U.S. planes had been carrying out for months. On August
15, 1945, Japan formally surrendered. World War II was finally
over. A new age of nuclear weapons had begun, and a cold war
between the two superpowers that emerged from the war—the
United States and the Soviet Union—would result in many
"surrogate wars" in the decades to come, wars fought in and
between nations backed by one side or the other.
The Second World War and claimed about 70 million lives (in
contrast to the First World War many civilians) and was
influenced by fascist ideologies. The biggest war crime was the
Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews were systematically frame
killed in concentration camps. The large-scale bombing of
residential areas and the dropping of atomic bombs on the
Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were part of a war,
which knew no fronts.
The Second World War effectively ended the era of European
colonialism.
Nazi Germany had developed a rocket program, launching
explosive missiles against civilian targets in Britain. At war’s
end, the US and USSR raced against each other to round up as
many of the German scientists as they could to develop their
own programs. This resulted not only in intercontinental ballistic
missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, it led to a
"Space Race" between the two ideologically opposed nations
that took humanity beyond the confines of Earth for the first
time.