What happened: Hitler conspired with Chamberlain and Daladi in Munich, forcibly ceding the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia to Germany, and Britain and France adopted a policy of appeasement. In order to finally bring the disaster to the East, the representative of Czechoslovakia agreed without the Munich crisis.
1939 In August, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Treaty of Non-Aggression between the Soviet Union and Germany. 1939, 1 In September, the Germans attacked Poland on a large scale, and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in the name of establishing the "Eastern Front", and the Second World War broke out in an all-round way. This was a declaration of war between Britain and France, but they did not launch a large-scale attack on the Germans (because of the appeasement policy, if they wanted to stop the "sit-in") and quickly occupied Poland.
1941On June 22nd, the Germans attacked the Soviet Union (Barbarossa) with more than 5.5 million men, 4,000 tanks and nearly 5,000 planes. The Soviet Union failed in national defense, failed. By June of 1 1, the Germans had occupied more than 0.5 million square kilometers of land in the Soviet Union and controlled 40% of the population and most of the industrial areas in the Soviet Union. On the other hand, on February 7th, 194 1, 12, the Japanese attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific War broke out and the Second World War reached its largest scale.
Results: 1945, 15. In August, the Japanese emperor issued the surrender book. On the 28th, the allied forces began to land near Tokyo and other areas, thus realizing the occupation of Japan. On September 2, the Japanese representative formally signed the unconditional surrender on the USS Missouri docked in Tokyo Bay. On September 9, representatives of Japanese invaders signed an unconditional surrender in Nanjing. The Second World War ended here.
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Due to the tragic World War II, according to the agreement of Yalta Conference, in order to maintain international peace and security, the Allies led by China, Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and France initiated the establishment of the United Nations on June 24th, 1945, and China, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France became permanent members of the Security Council. Since 1948, the Security Council has authorized more than 60 peacekeeping operations. In addition, the United Nations has successively formulated hundreds of international treaties ranging from non-proliferation of nuclear weapons to the peaceful use of outer space.
The Asian and African colonial people launched the colonial liberation movement because the old imperialism such as Britain and France suffered heavy losses in World War II. India's independence dealt a fatal blow to the British Empire. Vietnam and Egypt both won the imperialist war. The Middle East and Africa have been independent of dozens of countries, which eventually led to the complete collapse of the colonial system formed around the world after the great discovery of western geography.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-World War II