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The Second World War

The Second World War was 1939- 1945 (China scholars believe that the starting and ending time of World War II was 193 1 year from September to September 1945 and 65438+September to 1945.

The war of World War II spread to Asia, Europe and Africa, with as many as 6 1 country, the population participating in the war reaching10.7 billion, and the total number of mobilized armed forces exceeding 1. 1 billion. The total number of military casualties in the participating countries exceeded 50 million, and with the addition of civilians, the total number of casualties reached 90 million. The total military expenditure of participating countries is 654.38 USD +035.2 million USD. Together with financial consumption and material losses, the total loss reached 4 trillion US dollars.

The anti-fascist countries and people who directly participated in the war paid a huge human and financial price. During the war, the total casualties of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain reached 6.5438+0.86 million, while the casualties of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union reached 20 million. Property losses in the United States amounted to $350 billion, in the Soviet Union to $200 billion, in Britain to $654.38+05 billion, and in China to more than $654.38+00 billion.

The fascist countries themselves suffered heavy losses in the great war. During the war, Germany mobilized a total of 65.438+0.7 million troops, accounting for 26.5438+0.5% of the country's total population, resulting in 65.438+0.65438+0.7 million military casualties and 300 billion US dollars in economic losses. Japan mobilized 9.7 million troops, accounting for 12.8% of the country's total population. The total number of military casualties reached 2 16 10000, and the economic loss reached 1000 billion US dollars.

The course of World War II is usually divided into three stages: the strategic attack of the Axis and the strategic defense of the Allies, the strategic stalemate and strategic turning point, the strategic attack of the Allies and the failure of the Axis.

1September 1939 to1summer and autumn 1942, the axis countries of Germany, Italy and Japan successively launched comprehensive strategic offensives on their respective battlefields. After being resisted by allied forces and anti-fascist forces all over the world, its offensive spirit gradually weakened, and finally reached the end of its strategic offensive in Stalingrad, Alaman in Africa and Midway in the Pacific.

Before the fundamental turning point of the war situation, each major battlefield has its own strategic stalemate stage. Around 1942 1 1, the allied forces successively carried out the battles of slinger Le, El Alamein and Guadalajara in three main battlefields, marking the realization of the strategic turning point of the Great War.

1944, the allies successively turned to the all-round strategic offensive in the Eurasian battlefield. On the European battlefield, the Soviet Union took the lead in launching a powerful offensive on the eastern front, and then the allies such as the United States and Britain landed in France, forming an east-west attack on Germany. In the Asian and Pacific battlefields, the Allies launched a strategic attack on the Japanese army through island landing operations and air and sea operations. Resistance movements and guerrilla warfare in Europe and Asia cooperated with the allied attacks and accelerated the pace of national liberation.

1945 In February, the heads of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain held the Yalta Conference, which finally defeated the German and Japanese fascists and established a new post-war international order. In April 1945, 1, the allied forces surrounded the German main force in the western line of Ruhr, and later reached the Elbe River. On April 16, the Soviet army launched the Berlin Campaign, joined forces with the US troops in Tolgao on the Elbe River on the 25th, broke into the center of Berlin on the 27th and stormed the Reichstag on the 29th. On the 30th, Hitler committed suicide. On May 8, representatives of the German High Command formally signed the unconditional surrender of Germany.

After Germany surrendered, the heads of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain held a Potsdam meeting from July 17 to August 2, 2007 to discuss how to deal with Germany, Japan and Japan after the war. During the meeting, China, the United States and Britain signed and published the Potsdam Proclamation, urging the Japanese government to surrender immediately and unconditionally. However, the announcement was rejected by the Japanese government. 1945 On August 6 and 9, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 8th, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and on August 9th, the Japanese Kwantung Army in the northeast of China attacked on three fronts. With the help of Korean soldiers and civilians, the Soviet army disarmed the Kwantung Army, entered northern China on 1 1, occupied South Sakhalin Island on 25th, and occupied Kuril Islands on 1 day. On August 9, Mao Zedong called on all anti-Japanese forces in China to hold a comprehensive counterattack. The Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army and the South China Anti-Japanese Guerrillas immediately launched an attack on enemy-occupied areas in North China, Central China and South China, and deployed a large number of troops to March to the northeast, cooperating with the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition forces to fight against the Soviet Union, and achieved a major victory in the counterattack.

1August 945 15, the Japanese emperor issued the surrender. On the 28th, the allied forces began to land near Tokyo and other areas, thus realizing the occupation of Japan. On September 2, the Japanese representative formally signed the unconditional surrender on the USS Missouri docked in Tokyo Bay. On September 9, representatives of Japanese invaders signed an unconditional surrender in Nanjing. The Second World War ended here.

World War II was a modern war. Modern weapons and equipment, such as tanks, armored vehicles, airplanes, artillery, warships, etc., are widely used by the warring parties. New weapons and technologies, such as radar, rocket launchers, missiles, and atomic bombs, are used for the first time, which has greatly changed the forms and methods of operations, and new forms and methods of operations have emerged, such as blitzkrieg, deep combat, landing and anti-landing operations, submarine warfare and anti-submarine warfare, aircraft carrier formation operations, strategic bombing and air defense operations, and airborne and anti-airborne operations. The experience and lessons gained by the participating countries in the Second World War have had a far-reaching impact on military thinking and strategic theory, and provided historical reference for national defense construction in various countries.

The victory of the world anti-fascist war is of great historical significance and another great turning point in human history. The victory of the anti-fascist war and its "Yalta system" created conditions for relative peace in the post-war world. The victory of the anti-fascist war weakened the capitalist world, changed the pattern of coexistence and mutual hegemony of the great powers in the capitalist world, and the United States dominated the world. The victory of the anti-fascist war created the premise for a series of countries in Asia and Europe to embark on the socialist road. The victory of the anti-fascist war opened the way for the national liberation movement of colonial and semi-colonial countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

1939 to 1945, the fascist countries of Germany, Italy and Japan launched the second world war on an unprecedented scale in human history. There are 6 1 countries and regions with a population of more than 2 billion, and 51200,000 soldiers and civilians have died. Finally, Germany, Italy and Japan are three fascist countries.

The outbreak of World War II had a series of political, economic, military and historical reasons. After the First World War, none of the basic contradictions inherent in the imperialist era have been resolved, and the contradictions between capitalism and socialism, between victorious countries and defeated countries, and between imperialist victorious countries have increased. With the aggravation of the imbalance of economic, political and military development among imperialist countries, Germany, Italy and Japan, whose military strength is developing rapidly, demand a new division of the world sphere of influence, which further intensifies the contradictions between imperialism.

The world economic crisis of 1929- 1933 further aggravated this contradiction.

Germany, Italy and Japan, which embarked on the path of militarism in order to get rid of the crisis, successively launched local wars of aggression, which eventually led to the outbreak of World War II.

It was Japanese imperialism that first started the war. /KOOC-0/93/KOOC-0/September/KOOC-0/8, the Japanese Kwantung Army entrenched in Shenyang, China launched an attack on the local China garrison. 1933+ 10, the Japanese army began to invade north China. 1On July 7th, 937, the Japanese army launched an attack on China troops stationed in Lugouqiao, a southwest suburb of Beiping, and the people of China launched a full-scale War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression for eight years.

The full-scale start of World War II was Germany's invasion of Poland and even Western European countries. The war is divided into five stages.

The first stage of the war (1939 September 1 to 194 1 June 2 1), 1939 September 1, fascist Germany invaded Poland, and World War II broke out in an all-round way. On September 3, Britain and France declared war on Germany, and the dominions and colonies of the British Empire joined the Anglo-French Union (on September 3, Australia, New Zealand and India joined; On September 6, South Africa joined; September 10, Canada joined). Because Poland was almost unprepared for the war and the strength of the two sides was very different, Poland was quickly occupied by the Germans and the country perished. On September 17, Soviet troops marched into Poland and occupied western Ukraine and western Belarus. On September 28th, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a "demarcation" treaty, delineating their respective occupied areas in Poland.

From the outbreak of the war to May 1940, Britain and France pursued a pre-war foreign policy in an attempt to lead the disaster of German aggression to the Soviet Union. Fascist Germany, on the other hand, took advantage of the strategic pause and actively prepared to attack western European countries.

1940 On April 9, the fascist German army invaded Denmark and occupied the country's territory without declaring war. At the same time, began to invade Norway. With the help of pro-fascist elements headed by Gysling (the so-called "fifth column"), the fighting action of fascist Germans in Norway ended in occupying the whole territory within two months.

The military and political leaders of fascist Germany began to implement the "Yellow Plan" long before the end of the Norwegian campaign, stipulating that lightning attacks should be carried out on France through Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. The attack began at dawn on May 1940. At first, the airport was heavily raided and airborne. The main assault of the fascist German army made a detour from the north to "maginot line" and crossed the northern part of France. The commander-in-chief of the French army, who firmly adhered to the defense strategy, deployed a large number of troops in "maginot line" without establishing deep strategic reserves. Fascist German tank soldiers arrived in the English Channel on May 20th after breaking through the defense in Sedang area. /kloc-in may of 0/4, the Dutch armed forces surrendered. The Belgian army, the British Expeditionary Force and a French army were divided in the Flanders Plain. On May 28th, Jun Bi surrendered. British troops and a French army were stuck in Dunkirk, abandoned all heavy military technical equipment and then withdrew to Britain. At the beginning of June, the fascist Germans broke through the defense lines hastily established by the French army on the Somme and Aina rivers. 10 In June, the French government abandoned Paris. 1940 On June 22nd, the military action ended with the signing of the French surrender, the so-called Compiegne Armistice Agreement (1940).

On June 1940, Italy joined the war against Britain and France. In August, Italian troops invaded British Somalia, Kenya and Sudan, and in mid-September, they invaded Egypt from Libya in an attempt to March on Suez. The Greek army broke the Italian army's attempt to attack Greece from Albania. 19411-in may, the British imperial army drove the Italian army out of British Somalia, Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Italy, Somalia and Eritrea, and the Italian fleet suffered heavy losses in the Mediterranean. 194 1 At the beginning of the year, the German army formed an "African Army" and headed for North Africa under the command of General Rommel. The German-Italian Coalition forces turned to attack on March 3 1 and arrived at the Libyan-Egyptian border in the second half of April.

At the same time of the European War, the Japanese imperialist aggression against China also expanded further. The Japanese army attacked Chinese mainland and began to occupy South China, and occupied the northern part of French Indian zhina.

1940 July 16, Hitler gave the order to invade Britain (the Battle of the Sea Lions). 1In August, 940, German aviation began intensive raids on British cities.

When Germany invaded Britain, its attention had turned to the east. Closely related to the plan to invade the Soviet Union is the strengthening of the aggression alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan. In the process of preparing to invade the Soviet Union, fascist Germany invaded the Balkans, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece, and seized Crete.

Fascist Germany's military victory in the first stage of the war was largely due to its opponents' failure to unite their own forces and establish a unified military leadership system. By the end of the first stage of the war, almost all western and central European countries were occupied by fascist Germany and Italy or became vassals, and their economies and resources were used to prepare for the war of invading the Soviet Union.

The second stage of the war (194 1 June 22,1June 22, 942,1kloc-0/June 22, 8, 194 1 June 22, 2008) On the 22nd and 24th, Churchill and Roosevelt respectively issued statements on behalf of the British and American governments and concluded agreements to support the Soviet Union's struggle against fascist aggression.

The Soviet-German battlefield, which became the main battlefield of the Second World War, was extremely fierce from the beginning of military operations. In the first few months, the Germans occupied a large area of Russian territory. The fascist "Blitzkrieg" plan was completely bankrupt because of the Soviet Union's counterattack near Moscow and the winter general attack during1941-kloc-0/942.

19411On February 7th, Japan suddenly attacked Pearl Harbor, an American military base in the Pacific Ocean, and provoked a war against the United States.

On February 8, 65438, the United States, Britain and other countries declared war on Japan. 65438+February 1 1, fascist Germany and Italy declared war on the United States.

After extensive preparations, the high command of fascist Germany began the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the biggest battles of the Second World War (1942- 1943). In the Pacific Ocean, Japan seized the sea power and occupied Hong Kong, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore Fortress, Philippines, Indonesia and other important islands. The British-American-Dutch joint fleet was hit hard, and Japan's position in the Pacific theater was strengthened, which made the United States and Britain lose all naval and air bases in the western Pacific. From the first half of 1942, the influence of the United States in the Pacific began to increase, and the Japanese fleet suffered considerable losses in the Battle of Coral Sea (May 7-8) and the Battle of Midway Island (June). By the end of 1942, it turned to Pacific defense. The Japanese imperialists were forced to give up their plans to fight the Soviet Union.

The third stage of the war (1942165438+10/9 to1943 65438+February 3 1),1942 6550. After the Soviet army seized the initiative, in the winter of 1942 and the spring of 1943, it made a devastating assault on the enemy in the battlefield areas such as North Caucasus, Donbass and Leningrad, repelling the enemy by 500- 1300 km and liberating a large territory with a population of more than 40 million before the war. Defeat the enemy's 2 18 division, destroying about 5000 guns, 7000 tanks and 65438+4000 planes. Fascist Germany was unable to make up for these heavy losses. These victories fundamentally destroyed Germany's military strength and changed the military and political situation in all battlefields of World War II. From June 194 1 to February 1943, the number of countries that declared war on Germany increased from 15 to 36.

Since the autumn of 1942, the struggle between Britain and the United States has become more active. Allied strategic aviation with larger forces was adjusted to bomb German cities, industrial targets and military targets. The efficiency against German submarines in the Atlantic traffic line has also improved. Under the unified command of General Eisenhower, the Allied High Command showed considerable enthusiasm in military operations in North Africa. In July 1943, 10, American and British troops (13 division) landed in Sicily and captured the island. At the beginning of September, they sent landing troops to land on Apennine Peninsula, but there was no great resistance from Italian army. The attack of British and American troops in Italy coincided with the serious crisis of Mussolini system due to the anti-fascist struggle of the broad masses of people led by Italy. On July 25th, Mussolini's government was overthrown. Marshal Badoglio became the head of the new government and signed an armistice agreement with the United States and Britain on September 3. The fascist group began to disintegrate.

In the fourth stage of the war (1 944 65438+1October1May 9, 945), the American and British armies launched attacks in the Pacific Ocean and Asia. In the summer and autumn of 1944, the Soviet army carried out several large-scale offensive campaigns. The Finnish government signed an armistice agreement with the Soviet Union on September 1944, withdrew from the fascist group and declared war on Germany on March 4 1945. Due to the Battle of Belarus (1944), the whole territory of Belarus and most parts of Lithuania were liberated. In late July, the Soviet army and the Polish First Army liberated Poland. 1944, the whole Moldavia and most parts of Romania were liberated. The entry of Soviet troops into Bulgaria accelerated the brewing people's uprising in that country. On September 9, the uprising broke out, overthrew the fascist monarchy, established the government of the motherland front and declared war on Germany. On August 29th, an armed uprising broke out in Slovakia. At the same time, the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army liberated Belgrade with the participation of Soviet troops. 1944 10 10 In October, Budapest was liberated after the counter-offensive of the fascist Germans in Lake Balaton was repelled. Soviet troops helped the Norwegian people and liberated northeastern Norway from fascist German aggressors.

On June1945+1October1February-June 14, the headquarters of the Soviet Supreme Command launched an attack on the Vistula River and East Prussia, crushing the fascist German group between the Vistula River and the Oder River and liberating most of Poland's territory. The storm occupied Konigsberg and wiped out the enemy's Zemland Group. In the first half of April, the German heavy groups in East Pomerania and Silesia were annihilated one after another, but the Baltic coast between Ze and Oder was liberated. In order to coordinate anti-fascist Germany's actions and solve the problems of post-war European arrangements, a summit meeting of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain was held in Yalta on February 4-11. At the beginning of April, the allied forces surrounded about 20 divisions of fascist Germans in Ruhr. The Germans on the western front actually stopped resisting. From the second half of April to the beginning of May, the Allies reached the Elbe River, occupied erfurt and Nuremberg, and entered Czechoslovakia and western Austria. British troops arrived in Schwelien, Lubeck and Hamburg. On may 2, the german army group c in Italy surrendered. On April 16, three Soviet troops launched a massive and extremely tense Berlin campaign, and the German Berlin Group was besieged.

After the conquest of Berlin, there was a large-scale surrender on the western front. After Hitler committed suicide (April 30th), the patchwork Deng Nici government reached a partial surrender agreement with the United States and Britain without stopping fighting the Soviet Union. At midnight on May 8, representatives of the German high command, headed by Marshal keitel, signed the unconditional surrender of the fascist Germans in the Soviet-occupied Berlin suburb of Karhorst. Entrusted by the Soviet government, Soviet Marshal zhukov accepted unconditional surrender with the representatives of the United States, Britain and France.

In the fifth stage of the war (1May 9 to September 2, 945), during the periods of 1944 and 1945, the allied armed forces carried out naval campaigns and landing campaigns in the Pacific theater to smash the islands occupied by the Japanese fleet and the Japanese People's Liberation Army. 1945 In May, among the aggressor countries that started the war, only Japan continued to fight. On August 9, the Soviet armed forces began to take military action against the Japanese Kwantung Army assembled in Manchuria. 10 in August, the Mongolian people took part in the war against Japan. The kwantung army was completely defeated in a short time. Northeast China, Korea, South sakhalin island (South sakhalin island) and Thousand Islands were all liberated. The Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, led by China's * * * Production Party, have won a series of major victories in the anti-Japanese battlefields. The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, which accelerated the failure of Japan's war of aggression. 1September 2, 945, the signing ceremony of the Japanese surrender was held. World War II is over.

The Second World War had a great impact on human destiny and was a major turning point in human history. World War II was launched by the fascist countries of Germany, Japan and Italy. Their purpose is not only to compete for colonies, but also to establish their own world hegemony and enslave people all over the world. The victory of the anti-fascist war saved all countries from fascist slavery and the destruction of world civilization. This is a blessing in disguise.

The collapse of international fascist forces fundamentally changed the distribution of world political forces and determined the development of the whole post-war world. Many nations and countries have won independence and liberation. The people of Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam, China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, under the leadership of the * * * Production Party and the Workers' Party, overthrew the rule of the bourgeoisie and landlords and completed their own lives. The establishment of the world socialist system has become the biggest event with world historical significance after the victory of the great October Revolution.

As the biggest armed struggle in human history, World War II has the characteristics of huge scale of military action, unprecedented development of military production and heavy losses of personnel and materials. The total war lasted 2 194 days (6 years); Military operations cover Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as the vast sea areas of the Atlantic Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

The number of conscripts has reached 1. 1 100 million. During the war years, the anti-Hitler countries alone produced 588,000 planes, 236,000 tanks and 6,543.8+0.47 million cannons.

Germany produces about 109000 aircraft, 46000 tanks, more than 435000 guns, mortars and other weapons.

World War II was the most destructive war in history. In Europe alone, the material losses caused by war damage (according to incomplete statistics) reached $260 billion (calculated by value 1938); The direct military expenditure of each belligerent country accounts for 60-70% of its gross national income. The army died169,000 people, and the residents died 34.3 million people, with a total death of 5120,000 people, and the Soviet Union alone reached more than 20 million people. This is a great destruction of human material civilization.

Radar and other radio electronic equipment, rockets, the first jet plane, cruise missiles and ballistic rockets were used for the first time in World War II, and nuclear weapons and radar were used in the final stage of the war. The role of air force, national air defense force, diving fleet, airborne troops, engineers and technicians has been enhanced. These have had a far-reaching and significant impact on the military thinking, war thinking and army building of post-war countries.