This warlike conflict has keys to understand the conflict that generated the Second World War and that led to the loss of many lives, destruction of important architectural heritage and many other consequences that still affect the memory of humanity.
Keys to understand the conflict that generated the Second World War
The Second World War causes a notable influence on history, due to the large number of deaths left after the battles and because it is one of the fiercest conflicts experienced to date.
Weapons of mass destruction were used to eradicate the enemies and with this an attempt was made not only against the lives of more than 60 million people, but also to seek to put an end to many races as if it were rather an ethnic, ideological or racial.
This war that lasted for six years, which began on September 1, 1939 and ended in May 1945, after leaving a continent completely worn out both socially and economically, left some keys that allow us to understand the conflict that was generated :
The incidence of the consequences of the First World War
After the signing of the Versailles Peace Treaty, once the First World War was over, a territorial readjustment began, generating nationalist movements in charge of many dissatisfied peoples.
Unsuccessful appeasement of London and Paris with Germany
After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he began to transform his country into a dictatorship; which led to the burning of the Reichstag, an act where the communists were accused in order to grant Hitler special powers, where in this way the Treaty of Versailles ended to reunify their territories.
At this time the appeasement of London, Austria and Italy was unsuccessful; generating, on the contrary, economic and political instability; so they let this German remake the map of central Europe, eventually occupying as far as Czechoslovakia, thus creating their Slavic state.
Invasion of Poland and start of World War II
When on September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany under Hitler, World War II began.
The beginning of the Cold War with its operation Barbarossa
Conflict that takes place when Russia is invaded by Germany and its allies, represented by forces from Italy, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and Finland.
Its purpose was that it would be a short war that would end with the arrival of winter; but his plans did not go as planned because it was necessary to support the Italians in conflict with Greece and break the Serbs.
The end of the isolation of the United States and Pearl Harbor
After the First World War ended, the results for the United States were not as expected, to which was added its condition of isolation and economic crisis in 1929.
For this world power, World War II was more of a European conflict until they suffered the attack on their Hawaiian base Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; which triggered his key participation in this war.
The creation of the atomic bomb
A nuclear weapon that was used in bombing and was initially developed by the United States with the support of Great Britain and Canada; under the name of the Manhattan Project.
They were used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, two Japanese cities that caused not only the immediate death of many human beings, but also radioactive contamination that remained among the population for a long time. After this tragedy, Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945.
World War II comes to an end on September 2, 1945; practically leaving the world divided into two antagonistic blocs, one of them under the leadership of the United States and the other under the Soviet Union.
As has been observed throughout the content of this article, the aforementioned historical events have been key to understanding the conflict that generated the Second World War.