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World War II, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history, involved more than 50 nations and was fought on land, sea and air in nearly every part of the world. Also known as the Second World War, it was caused in part by the economic crisis and by political tensions left unresolved following the end of World War I.
The war began when Germany invaded Poland in 1939 and raged across the globe until 1945, when Japan surrendered to the United States after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the end of World War II, an estimated 60 to 80 million people had died, including up to 55 million civilians, and numerous cities in Europe and Asia were reduced to rubble.
Among the people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final Solution,” now known as the Holocaust. The legacy of the war included the creation of the United Nations as a peacekeeping force and geopolitical rivalries that resulted in the Cold War.
The devastation of the Great War had greatly destabilized Europe, and in many respects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that earlier conflict. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany, and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled the rise to power of and National Socialist German Workers’ Party, abbreviated as NSDAP in German and the German Party in English…
Did you know? As early as 1923, in his memoir and propaganda tract “Mein Kampf” (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler had predicted a general European war that would result in “the extermination of some people of a certain race in Germany.”
After in 1933, Hitler swiftly consolidated power, anointing himself Führer (supreme leader) in 1934. Obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the “pure” German race, which he called “Aryan,” Hitler believed that war was the only way to gain the necessary “Lebensraum,” or living space, for the German race to expand. In the mid-1930s, he secretly began the rearmament of Germany, a violation of the Versailles Treaty. After signing alliances with Italy and Japan against the [Soviet Union], Hitler sent troops to occupy Austria in 1938 and the following year annexed Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s open aggression went unchecked, as the United States and Soviet Union were concentrated on internal politics at the time, and neither France nor Britain (the two other nations most devastated by the Great War) were eager for confrontation.
Outbreak of World War II (1939)
In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet Leader Stalin, who incited a frenzy of worry in London and Paris. Hitler had long planned an invasion of Poland, a nation to which Great Britain and France had guaranteed military support if it were attacked by Germany. The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war on two fronts once he invaded Poland, and would have Soviet assistance in conquering and dividing the nation itself. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II.
On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. Under attack from both sides, Poland fell quickly, and by early 1940 Germany and the Soviet Union had divided control over the nation, according to a secret protocol appended to the Nonaggression Pact. Stalin’s forces then moved to occupy the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and defeated a resistant Finland in the Russo-Finnish War. During the six months following the invasion of Poland, the lack of action on the part of Germany and the Allies in the west led to talk in the news media of a “phony war.” At sea, however, the British and German navies faced off in heated battle, and lethal German U-boat submarines struck at merchant shipping bound for Britain, sinking more than 100 vessels in the first four months of World War II.
Timeline of World War II
World War II, also called the Second World War, was a global conflict during the years 1939–1945.
The principal combatants were the Axis powers—Germany, Italy, and Japan—and the Allies—France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.
The war was in many respects a continuation, after an uneasy 20-year hiatus, of the disputes left unsettled by World War I and the conditions imposed on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles, ending “The Great War.”
The 50,000,000–70,000,000 deaths incurred in World War II make it the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in history.
Below are some key dates in World War II.
Some of these events actually took place before the first “official” shot of WWII was fired on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland touching off the war in Europe.
There had already been fighting in the Pacific between Japan and neighboring countries. Japan’s December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor took the war to another level as the United States was thrust into this global conflict.
Even today, everyone has a personal connection to World War II in their family in some manner. It’s up to you to discover what that is.
30 Jan 1933
Aᴅᴏʟғ Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ becomes Chancellor of Germany
1937
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1938
German Anschluss with Austria
30 SEPT 1938
Treaty of Munich
MARCH 1939
Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ invades Czechoslovakia
MARCH/APRIL 1939
Britain rearms and reassures Poland
LATE AUG 1939
Russia and Germany sign pact
1 SEPT 1939
Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ invades Poland
3 SEPT 1939
Britain and France declare war on Germany
SEPT 1939-MAY 1940
“Phoney War”
APRIL/MAY 1940
Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ invades Denmark and Norway
10 MAY 1940
Blitzkrieg
10 MAY 1940
Chamberlain resigns
26 MAY 1940
Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
11 JUNE 1940
Italy enters war on side of Axis powers
22 JUNE 1940
France signs armistice with Germany
10 JULY-31 OCT 1940
Battle of Britain
22 SEPT 1940
Tripartite Pact
DECEMBER 1940
British rout Italians in N. Africa
EARLY 1941
Italy and Germany attack Yugoslavia
22 JUNE 1941
Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ attacks Russia – Operation Barbarossa
7 DEC 1941
Pearl Harbor
8 DEC 1941
Britain and US declare war on Japan
18 APR 1942
Doolittle Raiders B0mb Japan
JUNE 1942
Battle of Midway
AUG 1942
Allies invade N. Africa
23 OCT 1942
Battle of El Alamein
NOV 1942
Battle of Stalingrad/
Allies push into N. Africa
12 MAY 1943
Axis surrenders in N. Africa
JULY 1943
Allies invade Sicily
AUG 1943
Allies take Sicily
3 SEPT 1943
Italy surrenders
NOV 1943
Allies meet at Tehran
JAN 1944
German siege of Leningrad ends
5 June 1944
Rome liberated
6 June 1944
D-Day in Normandy
25 AUG 1944
Paris liberated
8 SEPT 1944
V2 Flying B0mbs
16 DEC 1944
Battle of the Bulge Begins
MARCH 1945
Allies cross the Rhine
APRIL 1945
Russians reach Berlin
28 APRIL 1945
Mussolini captured and executed
30 APRIL 1945
Hɪᴛʟᴇʀ commits suicide
7 MAY 1945
Germany unconditionally surrenders
8 MAY 1945
V.E. day
5 JULY 1945
Churchill loses election
8 July 1945
Russia declares war on Japan
6 AUG 1945
Atomic B0mb dropped on Hiroshima
9 AUG 1945
Atomic b0mb dropped on Nagasaki
14 AUG 1945
Japanese surrender
2 Sept 1945
MacArthur accepts Japan’s unconditional surrender
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1. 盘古开天辟地
在中国古代的宇宙起源神话中,盘古被认为是第一个生物。在宇宙尚未形成之时,天地混沌如鸡蛋。盘古在其中沉睡了18000年,醒来后用他的巨斧劈开了混沌,使清气上升为天,浊气下降为地。盘古顶天立地,直到他死后,他的身体变成了世界的一部分:呼吸化为风和云,眼睛化为日月,血液化为河流,毛发化为森林,骨骼变为山川。
2. 女娲造人
女娲是古代中华神话中的创造女神。据传说,在盘古开天辟地之后,世界上还没有人类,于是女娲用黄土捏成了人,并赋予他们生命,使他们成为地球上的居民。后来,天塌地裂,洪水肆虐,女娲用五彩石补天,拯救了世界。
3. 后羿射日
远古时期,天上有十个太阳,炙烤大地,万物濒临灭亡。英雄后羿为了拯救众生,爬上昆仑山顶,用弓箭射下了九个太阳,只留下一个,为大地带来光明和温暖。后羿因此成为了人们崇拜的英雄。
4. 嫦娥奔月
嫦娥是中国神话中的月亮女神。相传她是后羿的妻子,后羿曾得到一包不死药,能够让人长生不老。某天,嫦娥在家,面对想要夺取不死药的小人,情急之下她自己服下了药,飞升到了月宫,从此居住在月亮上,孤独地守望着地球。
5. 大禹治水
大禹是中国古代传说中的治水英雄。传说中,洪水泛滥成灾,大禹继承了父亲鲧的治水事业。他通过“疏导”的方法,开山辟路,疏通河道,最终成功治理了洪水,拯救了百姓。大禹治水的故事也象征着人类对自然灾害的斗争与胜利。
这些神话和传说构成了中国古代文化的一部分,深刻影响了中国的历史、文学、艺术和宗教。这些故事不仅反映了古代中国人对自然现象的理解和解释,也体现了他们的道德观念和价值追求。
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