Complete the table below about the cause, major events and outcomes of

World War II.

WORLD WAR II

Causes

Alliances African Nationalistic Movement - African soldiers aided the British and French
campaigns against Central Powers.

He planned to conquer much of the Soviet Union to build the Third Reich, a
perfect German State that enslaves and dominates the world for a thousand years.

With Tripartite Pact of 1940, a new powerful alliance was formed between
Germany, Italy and Japan, the Axis Power.

The United States, Britain , and the Soviet Union – The Grand Alliance

Major World Mohandas Gandhi led the reform movements in India against the British Crown
with noncooperation and civil disobedience as major platform leading to the
Leaders Indian Independence Movement.

King Victor Emmanuel I of Italy relegated power to Mussolini, known as II Duce

("The Leader") as Prime Minister after the Fascia threat of marching to Rome.

The rivalry between politburo Teaders, such as Leon Trotsky, gave rise to another
powerful dictator, Joseph Stalin.With the goal of building a strong industrialist
Russia under a communist regime, Stalin imposed his Five-Year Plan of
transforming Russia into an economic powerhouse.

On June 22, 1940, the French led by Marshal Philippe Petain, asked for an
armistice agreement with Germany in Compiegne because of the humiliating loss.

The United States, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, denounced the German
act but remained neutral. Hitler, then focused on invading Britain.
 A new Prime Minister, Jas Winston Churchill rallied the British people under the
call for "blood, sweat, and tears" and to "never surrender.

Reinhard Heydrich, a chief of the Nazi Security Service, created the

Einsatzgruppen, a special task force that aims To capture all European Jews and
put them in concentration camps.

In late November, led by Soviet Marshall Georgy Zhukov, the Soviets struck,
effectively crippling German assault.

General Hideki Tojo became the new Japanese Prime Minister, he sent envoys to
negotiate a continued trade deal and to prevent the entry of the US into war. Japan
offered the US withdrawal of its troops in Southeast Asia but the US saw this as
inadequate.

The American forces under the leadership of Douglas MacArthur, who have left
the islands after Allied defeat in the Battle of Bataan in 1942, gathered strength in
the Philippines.

Major Battle France 1940 - The Battle of France, also known as the Western Campaign, the
French Campaign and the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France
Zones during the Second World War.

Battle of Britain - After the French surrendered, the British found themselves the
only force against the mighty Nazi Germany. Prime Minister Winston Churchill –
rallied the British people under the call for “blood, sweat, and tears” and to
“never surrender.”

Moscow - The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two
periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km sector of the Eastern
Front during World War II, between September 1941 and January 1942.

Operation Barbarossa- Operation Barbarossa was the invasion of the Soviet

Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June
1941, during the Second World War. It was the largest land offensive in human
history, with over 10 million combatants taking part.

Turning Points The second half of World War I (1942 to 1945) can be described as a turning
point. Unlike the first half beginning 1939 whose combats involved quick
maneuvers by German forces, the second half revolved around the combatants'
ability to manage resources and streamline their tactical advantage. As the war
progressed, the large armies of Germany and Japan proved useless in a long-term
battle. With the failure of Germany to seize the Soviet Union and the inability of
Japan to cripple US forces deterred the Axis of a quick World War II victory. The
sheer size and the amount of resources of the Soviet Union and the United States
proved to be a stronger advantage. War weariness was evident and the longer
Germany and Japan fights, the more weary their troops became. Three battles
became crucial in Allied Victory in its offensives against Axis Powers. The first
was the Battle of Midway in June, 3 to 7, 1942. In this battle, the US was able to
cripple large Japanese aircraft-carriers, crippling the Japanese aerial advantage.
The second was the Battle of El Alamein in November of 1942, where British
forces were able to push German tanks, led by General Erwin Rommel, in Egypt
and the rest of North Africa, leading to the surrender of German, and Italian
troops in 1943. Lastly, the Battle of Stalingrad in the Eastern front where the
Soviets prevented German troops from capturing all of Southern Russia and its oil
resources. In this battle, the entire German Sixth Army, the best of German
troops, were defeated. By 1943, Hitler felt they were no match against the rising
 Allied forces.

Outcomes The years 1943-1945 were crucial to the culmination of World War II. On May
13, 1943, Axis forces in Tunisia surrendered to the Allies, giving valuable entry
point to Italy.

By September 1943, the Allies captured Sicily and finally entered Italy. This led
to the defeat of Mussolini's Fascist forces, finally defeating Italy in the process
After much resistance with the aid of the Germans in the northern hills of Rome,
the Allied forces pushed northwards capturing the city on June 4, 1944, the first
to be liberated from Axis Powers.

With massive advances of Allied forces since the autumn of 1943, the
implementation of D-Day, otherwise known, as Operation Overlord or the
Normandy landings, a plan to free france and the rest of Western Europe began.
On June 6, 1944, around 156,000 American, British, and Canadian troops landed
in Normandy region, north of France. On the southern side, another Allied force
was pushing northward into Paris, liberating the city by August of 1944. In
December 1944, the Germans conducted a surprise attack, with Hitler pouring the
remaining strength of Nazi troops against France and Luxembourg, known as the
Battle of the Bulge. German forces initially won ground but due to operational
failure, the Allied forces regained victory.

By January of 1945, Warsaw, Poland was also liberated, along with Warsary,
Romania, and Bulgaria. In February, massive aerial raids bombarded the German
homeland. Because of successive losses, Hitler hid 55 meters deep under the city
of Berlin, commanding the remaining Nazi forces there.

On April 28, 1945, Mussolini was shot dead by Italian resistance fighters in
Giuliano, Italy, Two days later, Hitler committed suicide. With the death of Il
Duce and the Führer, total and unconditional surrender was inevitable; Germany
proclaimed defeat on May 7, 1945, officially ending World War II in Europe
known as VE-day (Victory in Europe Day). In Asia, on the other hand, righting
continued. US and Filipino forces worked hand-in-hand against Japanese troops,
rpushing them northward. Over the next couple of months, the US Airforce
conducted la series of aerial raids on Tokyo killing 100,000 people in the process.
By the end of March, Manila was already recaptured. The Allies, with Germany’s
defeat called for the Japanese to finally surrender on July 27.

On August 6, 1945, Truman launched the first atomic bomb in Hiroshima and a
second three days later on Nagasaki. The atomic bomb caused utmost devastation
to both cities crippling both military and civilians. Aside from deaths caused by
the impact, thousands of people also died from extreme radiation, months
following the explosion. Between the explosions, Soviet forces under the Yalta
Agreement invaded Manchuria. On August 10, Japan accepted the terms of the
Potsdam Conference and on August 14, Japan with almost total destruction,
surrendered. By September 2, 1945, MacArthur accepted the surrender of the
Japanese and officially ended the war in the Pacific. After 6 years and 1 day,
World War II finally ended.

Aftermath of the One of the deadliest of human conflicts, World War Il influenced the political,
socioeconomic, and diplomatic ties that can still be felt in modern international
War relations. The number of casualties varies because some statistics do not account
for. unrecorded deaths; however, it is estimated that 75 million people died.
Among those who suffered most are civilians who suffered war atrocities,
genocide, disease, rape, and starvation. The Holocaust alone claimed around 6
million Jews. War criminals were tried of their war crimes such as the Holocaust
trials at Nuremberg, Germany in 1945. The war drove people homeless across
continents. New national lines resulted into new tensions against minorities.
Poland, the most devastated country in World War II, regained much of the
territories that were taken from, them, such as Silesia, Neumark, and Pomerania.
Sudetenland was returned to Czechoslovakia. At the end of WWII, as much as
70% of industrial infrastructure was destroyed. Irreversible damage can be seen in
many cities leading them almost impossible to recover, such as in Manila,
Philippines, considered as the second most devastated city after the war.