Story of the World War II by Lucía Reyes Naranjo

Hitler invades Poland

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 02:23:51 UTC

On September 1, Hitler invaded Poland, that is, the real war action that started the World War II. Poland cut off territory from Germany so that the country would have an outlet to the Baltic Sea through the Danzing Corridor. In August 1939, the Communist Stalin and the Anti-Communist Hitler, two totalitarian leaders create the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, a German-Soviet non-aggression treaty, 9 days after the Pact Hitler invades the western part of Poland and three weeks later the Soviets they were invading the eastern part. Germans and Russians had divided Poland into a secret clause of the treaty. Germany's invasion of Poland finally caused England and France to declare war on Germany.

Treaty of Versailles

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 02:33:03 UTC

At the end of the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles left Germany very damaged, since it had to pay disproportionate compensation to the victorious countries.

The Beginning of Hitler times

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 02:38:09 UTC

Germany needed a leader to help them prosper, and for that was Hitler, a frustrated painter who knew how to channel the anger and longings of an entire country.

Hitler

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 02:42:09 UTC

Adolf Hitler, also called Adolf Hittler in some Hispanic countries, was a German politician, military and dictator of Austro-Hungarian origin. If anything good could be said about him, Hitler was a great orator and expert on propaganda. He spoke to them of the superiority of the German race and the path they should follow to make the nation great. He ended up in jail in 1923 due to a failed coup, in his confinement he took the opportunity to write "Mein Kampf" in English "My Struggle", a book that would end up being the gospel of Nazism. After his imprisonment, Hitler returned to the political arena and would end up winning the elections to be German chancellor in 1932, turning Germany into the "Third Reich" in English "The Third Great German Empire".

German National Communist Party

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 03:03:05 UTC

At the stroke of speech, Hitler becomes leader of the German Workers' Party, turning it into the German National Communist Party, a party full of nationalist, supremacist, racist ideas and a strong anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist component.

New policy

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 03:10:58 UTC

Hitler establishes a totalitarian regime by liquidating the democratic institutions of the Weimar Republic. Deputies of the Communist Party of Germany are arrested and confined in concentration camps. The persecution of the Jews by Nazism becomes an active policy.

The Führer ignored Germany's obligations under the Versailles treaty, creating a strong military state.

Hitler and Austria

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 03:16:09 UTC

In 1938, Hitler put into practice his policy of territorial expansion incorporating Austria into his dominions, that same year.

European War

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 03:17:38 UTC

In 1938, Hitler threatened to start a European war unless the Sudetenland, a border region of Czechoslovakia with an ethnic German majority, was ceded to Germany.
To resolve the matter, there was a talk in Munich between the Germans, French, English and Italians. The Czechoslovaks were not even told about this, they being the country involved.
British Prime Minister Chamberlain and his French homologist, in an act of cowardice, give in as long as the blood spilled is not British.

Hitler invades Czechoslovakia

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 03:24:26 UTC

In 1939, Hitler breaks his word and occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia. The new British Prime Minister, Churchill, criticized Chamberlain with the phrase "We have preferred dishonor to war, we will have dishonor and also war"

World War II: First Part

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 03:56:47 UTC

Germany paused to retake ranks, meanwhile the British and French kept abreast of German movements. Journalists called this time the "Joke War".
The English sent troops to France to stop the Germans. French and British troops took cover behind the Maginot Line, a defensive line built after the Second World War that the French believed impregnable. During this time of calm, the Soviet Union attacked Finland, this caused the Soviets to suffer innumerable casualties, finally, the Soviets did not manage to conquer Finland.

World War II: France War

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 04:26:29 UTC

Hitler thought that the Red Army was made up of undermen, being a weak army. The Führer, grown by his advances and by the passivity of the other European leaders, occupies Denmark and Norway.
The Germans end the "War of Joke" in May 1940 after simultaneously attacking Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France. The method is traditional in Poland, the Blitzkrieg, or thunder war, they managed to pass their Bánzer tanks through a place that was thought impenetrable for a modern mechanized army, the Forest of the Ardennes, the allied army would be surrounded, the battle of France seemed lost.
At the end of that month, an evacuation operation of the allied troops in French territory was carried out in Dunkirk. Germany may have completely defeated the army back then, but Hitler let more than 300,000 soldiers escape. The battle of France did not last any longer. On June 22, Hitler met with high-ranking French officials who requested an armistice.

World War: Mussolini

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 04:37:55 UTC

France was divided in two, an occupied France where Paris was and another not occupied controlled by a collaborationist government based in Vichy and presided over by Marshal Philppe Petain, it was known as Vichy France. Charles de Gaulle declared against the Vichy government, and proclaimed free France, called on himself to form the French resistance. Italy and Germany, the two fascist powers, were united since 1936 in a grouping that Mussolini the "Rome-Berlin Axis".
Mussolini, the leader of the Italian Fascist Party, has joined Germany and this also adds Albania and declared war on France and England. Finally Germany supports Italy helping them to conquer Greece through Bulgaria and then attack Egypt from Libya.

World War II: Spain and England

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 04:50:14 UTC

After the War in France, Churchill, the new British Prime Minister, refused to sign an armistice with Germany, so Hitler decided to attack England, but due to England's insular condition, it was not so easy for him.
The English manage to defend their island in the Battle of Britain, a battle especially in the air, the Luftwaffe against the Raf, Churchill closed the battle of England with the phrase "Never so many owed so much to so little".
For a month England survives the war alone, the Germans bombard the most important cities in England, Hitler believes he is dominating the situation and sees himself as the clear winner, but the British resist. At the end of the year Adolf Hitler met with General Franco in Hendaye, a French town on the border with Spain, Hitler wanted Spain to be part of his side in the war, but they did not reach an understanding, Franco was willing to be part of the war by Hitler, but Spain had suffered casualties with the Spanish Civil War, Spain provided logistical material, but Spain was not part of the war.

World War II: The invasion of the soviet union

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 05:41:26 UTC

Germany managed to get Hungary and Romania to join, and the only thing missing was Yugoslavia, a change of government in this country would precipitate its invasion in April 1941. It is then that Hitler decides to start the operation "Red Beard" thus beginning the invasion of the Soviet Union, the great motivation was Russian oil. Finally in June 1941 they set in motion their plans to invade the Soviets. In a month Belarus and the Baltic republics were already occupied by Germany, Poland was completely owned by the Germans, Hitler had calculated that in just a few months he would have Moscow in his power, but this was not possible since the Winter and the German forces were miles away from contracting Moscow.

World War II: Japan

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 05:48:49 UTC

The "Rome-Berlin Axis" expanded to the "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis" with the union of Japan in 1939. Japan was the most advanced country in the East, and it wanted to free its neighbors, that is, the eastern European colonies. From the yoke of the West, "Asia for Asians" was the motto worn by the Japanese. In 1931 they began the invasion of China that continued in 1937, when Germany took France, Japan took control of French Indo-China, a commercial blockade and an oil embargo by the US government chaired by Roosevelt ensued.

World War II: USA into the war

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 05:56:47 UTC

Japan had no choice but to surrender to the other side or join the war, so it unexpectedly attacked the Pearl Harbor base in Hawaii in December 1941, the sleeping giant awakens, and Roosevelt creates the speech of infamy in which declares a state of war between the US and Japan.
After Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, then Singapore, Burma, Thailand, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.
Hitler will declare war on the USA, with this Hitler signs his death warrant, defeat is only a matter of time.

World War II: First casualties

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 06:13:52 UTC

A naval battle takes place in the Pacific, while in the Atlantic it has been being fought since the beginning of the war. The deciphering of the Enigma Machine of the Nazis supported the countries of the other side. In 1942 the Americans get revenge on Pearl Harbor after 6 months, specifically in the Battle of Midway, where the Japanese lost 4 aircraft carriers, in Europe, Churchill approved the massive bombardment of the German civilian population, while in Africa the German troops from Rommel and the Italians win some campaigns but are defeated in the battles of Alamein that mark a strong change, since the Germans would not be able to pass through the Suez Canal, for which they would not obtain the oil reserves of the Middle East. The Nazis also plan to conquer the oil fields of the Caucasus, that's when Hitler decides to divide his forces and go for Stalingrad in order to deal a moral blow to Stalin.
Although the Germans conquer much of Caucasus, their troops withdraw because their eyes were fixed on Stalingrad, in early 1943 the Germans surrendered after the long battle of Stalingrad, the bloodiest in human history.

World War II: The Ending

lucia_patz — 2021-02-08 06:32:02 UTC

From here the Germans constantly begin to cede territory to the Russians. In July 1943, the Nazis failed to stop the Red Army in the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle in history, that same month, the Allies bombed Rome, which caused great demotivation in the Italians, soon after they arrested to Mussolini, in 1944 they liberated Rome, allied countries landed in Normandy, the Germans who were retreating from the east, began to retreat from the west, the Allied advance was unstoppable, the Germans launched a desperate offense in the Ardennes, in the Pacific the Japanese offenses fade, the kamikazes only delay the American offensive. In 1945 the Red Army arrived in the concentration camps in Auschwitz and released thousands of prisoners, public opinion knew the horrors of the Jewish Holocaust and its true scope, more than 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime. In February the allies carried out a bombardment of Dresden, one of the largest bombardments on the civilian population in the entire war, resulting in almost the entire city destroyed. In April the Russians arrive in Berlin and win the last battle in Europe. Also in April, the execution of Mussolini and the suicide of Hitler took place. Finally Nazi Germany surrenders to the allies. World War II ends in Europe, but in Japan it took two nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagazaki in August to surrender the tireless Japanese army.