SECOND WORLD WAR

Most devastating war in human history

 55 million dead
 1 trillion dollars spent on weapons and on damage

Began in 1939 as strictly a European Conflict

Ended in 1945 with a participation of many states in the world
1938 1942

1946
 How did the WWII start?
• The economic crisis of the 29‘

• The seizure of power by Adolf Hitler

• Lightning war by Germany

• Germans' conquest of France

• Entry in war of Italy and Japan Benito Mussolini

& Adolph Hitler

• Axis powers(Germany, Italy, and Japan) and Allied

countries(France, Poland and the United Kingdom and after
USA).
 Aggression & Appeasement
The end of war

• Soviet army, ally of Germany, put under his power Latvia, Lithuania,
Estonia and Finland

• Hitler’s objective: the conquest of 'URS

• ‘URS victory

• United Nations, created the ONU

Hitler’s F
rance and
Pe tain’s Fra
nce
• Hitler committed suicide in the bunker

• The Allies liberated Italy

• The Second World War ended on 2 September, 1945.

 The Condition of the Jews
• 6 million Jews dead

• Nazi concentration camps

• Impure breed

• The Jewish ghettos

• Night of Broken Glass

• Film- Life is beautiful

 Nuclear Energy
• IAEA

• Nuclear weapons

• Atomic bomb

• Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• The effects of the atomic bomb

 Picasso-Guernica
• Bombing of Guernica, a Basque Country village
in northern Spain

• Creation

• Composition