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Revision note: The Second World War: Causes, Course and Consequences

  • Causes: Versailles, Depression, fascism, League failure, appeasement (Munich 1938), Nazi–Soviet Pact 23 Aug 1939
  • Poland invaded 1 Sept 1939; France falls June 1940; Battle of Britain 1940; Barbarossa 22 June 1941; Pearl Harbor 7 Dec 1941
  • Turning points: Midway June 1942, El Alamein late 1942, Stalingrad (Feb 1943); D-Day 6 June 1944; Imphal–Kohima 1944
  • V-E Day 8 May 1945; Hiroshima 6 Aug, Nagasaki 9 Aug; Japan surrenders 15 Aug 1945
  • Results: UN 24 Oct 1945, Bretton Woods 1944 (IMF, World Bank), UDHR 1948, Cold War, decolonisation
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