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1939

1945

 September 1, 1939 officially begins the second world war when Gerd von Rundstedt troops begin the Fall Weiss, the invasion of Poland by Germany. The Luftwaffe made the first bombing of Warsaw, Krakow and Lodz.

The End of World War II meets both the closure of the European Theater in World War II and the German surrender, which took place between late April and early May 1945.

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After the First War or the Great War (1914-1918), signed peace treaties between nations, these treaties were a bit weak and some countries were unfair, which led to dissatisfaction among the population and desire for revenge. The Treaty of Versailles significantly reduced the territories of Germany and Austria, areas populated by Germans.

Great ambition and rivalry between countries, especially those who had lost territory in the Great War.
Need to demonstrate its military power and achieve military-political position of superiority over other countries.

Control and dominate certain areas to exploit their natural resources. Hitler wanted to be the terrestrial version of what was England at sea.
Problems ethnicity, as Hitler's philosophy about the purity of "Aryan race", according to the ideas expressed in "Mein Kampf. "

We faced three ideologies, liberalism, capitalism, the socialist system and the Nazi-fascist, the latter responding to a totalitarian system was born in Italy and Germany after the First World War.

The victims:

The number of deaths (according to the most accepted) reached 50 million. This frightening figure must be added the disruption of prisoners, the camps secuels concetracin, family disruption, hunger and will endeavor to adapt wing soldiers returned to civilian life.
Destruction: Disappeared cities, railways, roads, bridges and industrial plants as well as affected the most fertile fields. The losers: Germany had to accept the surrender incodicinal and allies divided their territory into four zones of occupation (American, British, French and Soviet). The city of Berlin, located in the Russian zone, was also divided into four occupation zones. The peace treaty signed between the U. S. and some of its allies in Japan was not signed by the USSR Germany suffered the esmantelamiento of industrial equipment. Territorial changes: Austria and Czechoslovakia regained its autonomy. Polish border followed the Order-Neisse line, and consequently, Germany lost East Prussia and the territories located to the east of that line. Germany's allies (Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Finland) have signed peace treaties with allies, imposing the conditions dictated by the Soviets who occupied these countries. Italy lost its colonial empire, Trieste was handed over to an international commission, while he went Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia. Japan lost its gains. China recovered Formosa, and U.R.S.S., Salajn. The U.S., meanwhile, occupied strategic positions in the Pacific, Korea was occupied by American and Soviet forces. Political changes Among other

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Shaft Nazi Germany (1939-1945), Fascist Italy (1940-1943) Italian Social Republic (19431945), Vichy France (1940-1944) Japan (1941-1945) Romania (1941-1944) And Others

Allies Great Britain (1939-1945) EE.UU (1941-1945) Soviet Union (1941-1945)

Free France (1940-1945) Poland (1939-1945)

France (1939-1940), And Others

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Adolf Hitler (Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, April 20, 1889 - Berlin, Germany, April 30, 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician, leader, thinker and an original member of the German National Socialist Party of Workers (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei - NSDAP) which established a Nazi regime in Germany between 1933 and 1945 known as the Third Reich. During that period, received and held the position of Imperial Chancellor (Reichskanzler) from January 1933 to April 1945, Head of State (Fhrer und Reichskanzler), 1934 to April 1945 and Supreme Commander of the German armed forces during the Second World War in September 1939 to April 1945. Hitler's ideology, which led directly caused the outbreak of World War II and the development of the Holocaust, was based on a number of points visionary character type nonnegotiable: the elimination of the Jews, the achievement of a 'vital 'To ensure the future of Germany, the race as an explanation of world history and the eternal struggle as the basic law of human existence.