2. AGRESSIVE FOREING POLICY OF THE FASCIST REGIMES
- JAPAN IN ASIA.
- ITALY IN AFRICA AND EUROPE.
- GERMANY IN EUROPE.
INDIFFERENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONS
ALLIANCES AND PACTS BETWEEN TOTALITARIAN STATES

3. IN 1932, THE JAPANESE EMPIRE INVADES MANCHURIA

4. IN 1937, JAPAN DECLARES WAR ON CHINA AND CONQUERED PART OF ITS
TERRITORY, INCLUDING BEIJING.

5. IN 1935, ITALY INVADES ABYSSINIA (TODAY ETHIOPIA). THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CONDEMN ITALY.

6. IN 1939, ITALY SEND AN ULTIMATUM TO ALBANIA, THAT SURRENDERS, AND
THE KING VICTORIO EMMANUELLE III OF ITALY IS CROWN AS KING OF ALBANIA.

7. REVANCHE FOR THE TERRITORIAL LOSSES AFTER WWI.

8. STEP BY STEP, HITLER IS CREATING THE GREAT GERMANY. IN 1935, HE OCCUPIES
RHINELAND.

9. IN 1938, HITLER ANNEXES
AUSTRIA, JOINNING THE
TWO GERMAN COUNTRIES
INTO ONE STATE.

10. THAT YEAR, IN 1938, THANKS TO THE BRITISH AND FRENCH INDIFFERENCE
HITLERS ANNEXES THE SUDETELAND, CZECH TERRITORY WITH GERMAN
POPULATION.

11. IN 1938, INVADES THE REST OF CHZECOSLOVAKIA AND DIVIDES IT INTO TWO
PUPPET STATES. ONLY POLAND IS LEFT.

12. GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE WANTED TO SATISFY HITLER WITH SOME
TERRITORIES. AFTER THE INVASION OF THE SUDETELAND, CHAMBERLAIN,
GB PM, SAID THAT THEY HAD ACHIEVE THE FINAL PEACE.

13. ANTI-KOMITERN PACT (GERMANY AND PACT)
PACT OF STEEL (GERMANY AND ITALY)
TRIPARTITE PACT (GERMANY, ITALY AND JAPAN)
Benito Mussolini,
Duce of Italy
Adolf Hitler,
Führer of Germany
Hiro Hito,
Emperor of Japan

14. IN AUGUST 1939, GERMANY AND THE SOVIET UNION SIGNED A NON-AGRESSION
PACT AND THEY AGREED TO DIVIDE POLAND.

15. IN SEPTEMBER 1939 HITLER CLAIMS DANZIG AND THE FORMER GERMAN POLAND.
GERMANY DECLARES THE WAR ON POLAND. FRANCE AND GB DECLARE THE WAR ON
GERMANY.
SECOND WORLD WAR

16. Charles Chaplin, is his movie, the Great Dictator, made fun of the German
Expansionism and its dangers. What is the meaning of the following scene?

17. Countries and nations mobilise all
its resources (human, economic,
military, industrial, agrarian,
natural, technological, scientific,
etc.) to destroy other country’s
capacity of fighting in the war.
TOTAL
WAR

18. WAR ECONOMY. DEVELOPMENT OF ALL
RESOURCES TO SEND THEM TO THE WAR.
ECONOMIC WAR. DESTRUCTION OF
ENEMY’S RESOURCES. NEW WEAPONS LIKE
BOMBER (destroy factories or
infraestructures) AND SUBMARINE
(merchant boats)

19. TANKS. OLD WEAPONS LIKE THE CAVALRY
ARE NOT USED ANYMORE.

20. AIRCRAFT CARRIER.

21. PLANES.

22. ATOMIC BOMB. THANKS TO THE ATOMIC THEORY OF ALBERT EINSTEIN.

23. RADAR AND SONAR. USED FOR DEFENSE. IT HELPS TO DETECT
SUBMARINES AND PLANES.

24. JET ENGINE. NEW JETS AND FLYING BOMBS.

25. USE OF ANIMALS. HOMING PIGEON

26. USE OF ANIMALS. DOGS.

27. USE OF ANIMALS. BOMB-
DOGS.

28. USE OF ANIMALS. PSYCOLOGICAL SUPPORT.

29. USE OF ANIMALS. PSYCOLOGICAL SUPPORT.

30. USE OF ANIMALS. PSYCOLOGICAL SUPPORT.

31. USE OF ANIMALS. WOJTEK BEAR.

32. USE OF ANIMALS. CONDECORATED ANIMALS IN THE RED SQUARE (MOSCOW).

33. USE OF ANIMALS. CONDECORATED ANIMALS. THE DICKIN MEDAL.

34. NEW. LIGHTING WAR OR BLITZKREIG.
OLD. SCORCHED EARTH.

35. NURSES.

36. WORKING IN FACTORIES.

37. WORKING IN CONSTRUCTION

38. SOVIET PILOTS.

39. WAR CORRESPONDENT.

40. SEXUAL SLAVES IN THE JAPANESE ARMY.

41. PROPAGANDA IS THE SPREADING OF INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF A CAUSE.
IT’S NOT IMPORTANT WHETHER THE INFORMATION IS TRUE OR FALSE OR IF
THE CAUSE IS JUST OR NOT.
"Repeat a lie a thousand times
and it becomes the truth”
J. Goebbels. Minister of Propagand of the III
Reich.

42. IT WAS USED IN DIFFERENT EVENTS AS THE OLYMPIC GAMES OF BERLIN 1936.

43. POSTERS AND ADS. ALLIES.

44. AXIS

45. USE OF CARTOONS LIKE WALT DISNEY ONES.
Der Fuehrer’sFace
(1943)
Education for death:
Themakingof the Nazi
(1943)

46. SEPTEMBER 1939. GERMANY INVADES POLAND IN ONE MONTH.
Proclamation of the General
Government of Poland in 1939
under the German rule.

47. APRIL 1940. GERMANY INVADES DENMARK AND NORWAY.
German troops in Oslo
(Norwey) in 1940

48. MAY 1940. GERMANY INVADES BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS.
Rotterdam (Holand)
after the German
bombs over the city.

49. JUNE 1940. THE GERMANS ENTER IN PARIS AND FRANCE SURRENDERS
Hitler in Paris behind
the Eiffel Tower

50. SUMMER 1940. GERMANY FAILS WHEN TRYING TO INVADE GREAT
BRITAIN DURING THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN.
London after Nazi
attack

51. 1941. SLOVAKIA, HUNGARY, BULGARIA AND RUMANIA JOIN THE AXIS.
GERMANY CONQUERS YUGOSLAVIA AND GREECE.
German soldiers with the
swastika behind the Parthenon
of Athens (Greece).

52. SUMMER 1941. GERMANY BREAKS THE MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT
AND INVADES THE SOVIET UNION.
Plan of the OPERATION
BARBAROSSA against the Soviet
Union

53. END 1941. JAPAN ATTACKS USA IN PEARL HARBOR. USA ENTERS IN THE
WAR AGAINST THE AXIS.
American newspaper with the
declaration of war on Japan
after Pearl Harbor’s attack.

56. AXIS ALLIES
WESTERN DEMOCRACIES
KOMINTERN

57. FROM 1942 USA FIGHTS AGAINST JAPAN IN ASIA

58. IN 1942, GERMANS AND ITALIANS ARE EXPULSED
FROM THE NORTH OF AFRICA.USA FIGHTS AGAINST
JAPAN IN ASIA Rommel (left) leader of the
German Afrika Korps and
Montgomery (down) leader
of the British soldiers in
Africa

59. IN 1943 GERMANY IS DEFEATED BY THE SOVIET UNION IN THE BATTLE OF
STALINGRAD. THE SOVIETS ADVANCE TO BERLIN.
Stalingrad after the
German defeat

60. IN 1943 ITALY IS CONQUERED BY THE BRITISH AND AMERICANS.
MUSSOLINI IS DEFEATED.
Allied troops after conquering
Rome

61. 6th JUNE 1944 THE ALLIES DISEMBARK IN NORMANDY (FRANCE).
OPERATION OVERLORD. D-DAY
Allied soldiers on the beach of
Normandy

62. MAY 1945. SOVIET TROOPS ENTER IN BERLIN. END OF THE WAR IN
EUROPE
A Soviet soldier with the USSR
flag on the Reichstag

63. AUGUST 1945. USA THROWS TWO ATOMIC BOMBS OVER HIROSHIMA
AND NAGASAKI. JAPAN SURRENDERS. END OF THE WW2.

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68. 50.000.000 DEATHS
NAZI GENOCIDE =
JEWS, GYPSIES,
HOMOSEXUALS,
COMMUNITS…
HOLOCAUST

69. EUROPE IS DEVASTATED BY THE WAR
USA = MARSHALL PLAN TO
RECONSTRUCT WESTERN EUROPE

70. GERMANY = DIVIDED
INTO 4 BY THE
WINNERS.
JAPAN = OCCUPIED BY
USA AND MADE A
DEMOCRATIC STATE.

71. FEBRUARY 1945. YALTA CONFERENCE. LAST STRATEGIES FOR WINNING THE WAR.
JUNE 1945. SAN FRANCISCO CONFERENCE. CREATION OF THE ONU

72. AUGUST 1945. POSTDAM CONFERENCE. DIVISION AND DE-
NAZIFICATION OF GERMANY.

74. EUROPE IS DIVIDED INTO TWO BLOCKS,
CAPITALIST AND COMMUNIST, LOSING ITS
PREEMINENCE.
TWO NEW SUPERPOWERS (USA
AND USSR) WILL FIGHT
ECONOMICALLY, MILITARILY
AND IDEOLOGICALLY