The most crucial war that had begun in 1940s is World War II. In October 1929 stock market crash, the economic crisis sweeping the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street throughout the capitalist world. In October 24, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street sell-off in the stock frenzy, closing stocks reached 13 million shares changed hands, a record. Followed by a stock market crash and the wave of bank runs, the US economy in dire straits, the history of capitalism, the worst global economic crisis erupted so. Contradictions inherent are in a too unresolved, but the contradiction between the victors and the vanquished increase contradictions between the victors and imperialism. After World War I Germany signed the "Treaty of Versailles" harsh provisions harbor resentment. The beginning of 1933, Hitler became German chancellor, the Nazis control of state power; Adolf Hitler began …show more content…
secretly armed Germany. "Versailles" is a 20-year armistice agreement.
With the inter-imperialist economic, political and military development imbalances intensifies, military strength rapid development of Germany, Italy and Japan require re-division of spheres of influence in the world, so the contradiction between imperialism and further sharpened. These caused the Second World War to begin.
Polish Campaign, also known as Depo Pod war or war, is the starting point of the European theater of World War II, is also the history of war in a world famous "lightning war." Poland called "Battle of 1939" or "September 1939 campaign", while Germany called "Polish campaign" combat codenamed "white scheme." Poland Battle of action Germany, Czech and Slovakia and the Soviet army in September 1939 invasion of Poland, the battle is generally considered the beginning of the Second World War.
In the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" signed a week, Germany on September 1, 1939 start attacking, but also in the Soviet Union invaded Poland on September 17, October 6, two German-Soviet occupation of Poland national territory Polish campaign
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This war, Polish forces 66300 people dead, injured 133,700 people, was captured by the Germans 69.4 million, 21.7 million people were captured by the Soviet Red Army (including the surrender of the number), 100,000 people fled to neighboring countries. German 10600 people dead, 30300 people injured 3,400 missing people. The war, the Germans first successful implementation of the "blitzkrieg", which shows the depth of the tank corps Implementing rapid assault under the power of collaboration in aviation, have a profound impact on the military academic development. German armed forces in the implementation of mobilization and expansion measures, taken the initiative enemy approach. German armed forces for military operations in Poland show that the pre-established group of Army and Air Force surprise of an intensive assault has a significant role.
Normandy landings in World War II allied forces in Europe, the Western Front launched a massive offensive; the battle occurred June 6, 1944 6:30 early. The operations code-named "Operation Overlord". The battle on August 19 crossed the Seine - Marne River after the end. Normandy is by far the world's biggest offshore landing operations.
Allied has mobilized 36 divisions, with a total strength of up to 288 million, of which the Army has 153 million people, the equivalent of the 20th century all the troops the United States. From June 6, 1944 to the beginning of July, the United States, Britain, Canada, millions of troops, 170,000 vehicles, 600,000 tons of various types of supplies, successfully crossed the English Channel. To July 24, the two sides are about 240,000 casualties of war, captured, of which 12.2 million Allied casualties, and captured 113,000 German casualties. To the end of August, the Allies to destroy or hit a total of 40 German divisions, the German three marshal and a army commander has been dismissed or leave, killed and captured German army commander, army commander, division commander and other senior generals 20 people and seized and German artillery to destroy a variety of more than 3,000 doors, destroying tanks more than 1,000 vehicles. Germans lost 3,500 aircraft, 13,000 tanks, 20,000 kinds of vehicles, personnel 400,000. The success of the Normandy landings, American and British forces made return to the European continent, so that World War II strategic situation changed fundamentally.
World War II profoundly changed the history of mankind. Its influence is widely involved in the political, economic, military, diplomatic, and cultural and science and technology at all levels. To develop military technology as an intermediary, the energy and the nature of human intelligence perfect combination, is greatly released the unprecedented increase in the destructive power of war, an unprecedented increase in the means of war, war style unprecedented wealth, war unprecedented vast space. Human blind to the war effort thus consciously, by the impetuous to reason, from the naive to mature, we entered a new historical stage.