The famous battle of World War II.

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 went bankrupt completely because of the Soviet Union's counterattack near Moscow and the winter general attack between1941-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.

The headquarters of the Soviet Supreme Command launched an attack on the Vistula River and East Prussia in June 1945+ 10/2-June 14, 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 letter of the fascist Germans in Karhorst, a suburb of Berlin occupied by the Soviet Union. 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.