RESUME OF THE WW2

The Second World War was the conflict that erupted in 1939 between the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) and Allies (Britain, France and Soviet Union). The second block was reinforced by the U.S. since 1941.
The ambition of Adolf Hitler (Germany), Benito Mussolini (Italy) and Hirohito (Japan) for economic and political dominance of the planet, taking away their colonies and semi to the Allied powers.
In 1933, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and soon after began to violate the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Reactivated its military industry, reorganized its armed forces and annexed Austria. Between 1938 invaded Czechoslovakia. Meanwhile Italy invaded and conquered Albania.
On 1 September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, causing Britain and France declare war. In the months following Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, Belgium and Holland. Fell in June 1940 in Paris, France. In August the same year London was bombed mercilessly, but failed to surrender to England.
Encouraged by the progress German, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini sent troops to invade Greece and Egypt, but were defeated. This forced Hitler to send help to control the Balkans and North Africa. These forces were defeated by the Allies at the Battle of El Alamein (July 1942) and fled to Italy, where they were also defeated.
In June 1941, Hitler ordered the invasion of the Soviet Union. His forces advanced towards Moscow, but still fell back near the Russian counterattack and the arrival of winter. They were eventually crushed by the Soviets in the great Battle of Stalingrad (June 1942 - February 1943). Meanwhile the Nazis applied a policy of extermination against the Jews (Final Solution) in cruel concentration camps such as Auschwitz (Poland).
In the Pacific the Japanese carried out the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, prompting U.S. entry to World War II. The Japanese offensive led her to conquer China, Southeast Asia and almost all Pacific islands. But after the U.S. victory in the Battle of Midway (June 1942) the Japanese began to lose positions.
In June 1944 the Allies launched a major counteroffensive to the Normandy invasion, forcing the Germans back to their country. In August Paris was liberated in February 1945 and all France was free of Germans. The Allies invaded Germany in March, but the Russians first came to Berlin (April 25, 1945). Hitler committed suicide on April 30. On May 9, 1945 German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signed the surrender of his country in Berlin.

6 and August 9 the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which accelerated the surrender of Emperor Hirohito on September 2, 1945.

Mauricio Ariza M  7C