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WORLD WAR II Part One

The first of a series looking back at the events and continuing legacy of the world’s most devastating military conflict to date.

HE instability created in Europe by the First World War (1914-18) set the stage for another international conflict World War II - which broke out two decades later and would prove even more devastating. Rising to power in an economically and politically unstable Germany, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, rearmed the nation and signed strategic treaties with Italy and Japan to further his ambitions of world domination. Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II. Over the next six years, the conflict would take more lives and destroy more land and property around the globe than any previous war. Among the estimated 45-60 million people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final Solution,” now known as the Holocaust.

Build-up to World War II

The devastation of the Great War (as World War I was known at the time) had greatly destabilised Europe, and

in many respects World War II grew out of issues left unresolved by that earlier conflict. In particular, political and economic instability in Germany, and lingering resentment over the harsh terms imposed by the Versailles Treaty, fueled the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and National Socialist German Workers’ Party, abbreviated as NSDAP in German and the Nazi Party in English.. After becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Hitler swiftly consolidated power, anointing himself Führer (supreme leader) in 1934. Obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the “pure” German race, which he called “Aryan,” Hitler believed that war was the only way to gain the necessary “Lebensraum,” or living space, for the German race to expand. In the mid-1930s, he secretly began the rearmament of Germany, a violation of the Versailles Treaty. After signing alliances with Italy and Japan against the Soviet Union, Hitler sent troops to occupy Austria in 1938 and the following year annexed Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s open aggression went unchecked, as the

United States and Soviet Union were concentrated on internal politics at the time, and neither France nor Britain (the two other nations most devastated by the Great War) were eager for confrontation.

Outbreak of World War II (1939) In late August 1939, Hitler and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signed the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, which incited a frenzy

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force designed to support the Army, but its planes were superior to nearly all Allied types. Production of German combat aircraft had steadily mounted since 1935. Great Britain, which was held back by delays in the rearmament programme, was producing one modern fighter in 1939, the Hurricane. A higherperformance fighter, the Spitfire, was just coming into production and did not enter the air war in numbers until 1940.

Lessons learned from WWI

The events of World War I seemed to vindicate the power of the defensive over the offensive, and efensive concepts underlay the construction of the Maginot Line between France and Germany and of its lesser counterpart, the Siegfried Line, in the interwar years. Yet by 1918 both of the requirements for the supremacy of the offensive were at hand: tanks and planes. The battles of Cambrai (1917) and Amiens (1918) had proved that when tanks were used in masses, with surprise, and on firm and open terrain, it was possible to break through any trench system.

of worry in London and Paris - Great Britain and France had guaranteed Poland military support if it were attacked by Germany. The pact with Stalin meant that Hitler would not face a war on two fronts once he invaded Poland, and would have Soviet assistance in conquering and dividing the nation itself. On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland from the west; two days later, France and Britain declared war on Germany, beginning World War II. On September 17, Soviet troops invaded Poland from the east. Under attack from both sides, Poland fell quickly, and by early 1940 Germany and the Soviet Union had divided control over the nation, according to a secret protocol appended to the Nonaggression Pact. Stalin’s forces then moved to occupy the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and defeated a resistant Finland in the Russo-Finnish War. During the six months following the invasion of Poland, the lack of action on the part of Germany and the Allies in the west led to talk in the news media of a “phony war.” At sea, however, the British and German navies faced off in heated battle, and

lethal German U-boat submarines struck at merchant shipping bound for Britain, sinking more than 100 vessels in the first four months of World War II.

Forces and resources of the European combatants in 1939

Against Germany’s 100 infantry divisions and six armoured divisions, France had 90 infantry divisions in metropolitan France, Great Britain had 10 infantry divisions and Poland had 30 infantry divisions, 12 cavalry brigades, and one armoured brigade (Poland had also 30 reserve infantry divisions, but these could not be mobilized quickly). A division contained from 12,000 to 25,000 men. It was the qualitative superiority of the German infantry divisions and the number of their armoured divisions that made the difference in 1939. The firepower of a German infantry division far exceeded that of a French, British, or Polish division. and The six armoured, or panzer, divisions of the Wehrmacht comprised some 2,400 tanks. The German Air Force, or Luftwaffe, was also the best force of its kind in 1939. It was a ground-cooperation

At sea the odds against Germany were much greater in September 1939 than in August 1914, since the Allies in 1939 had many more large surface warships. At sea, however, there was to be no clash between the Allied and the German massed fleets but only the individual operation of German pocket battleships and commerce raiders.

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1 A 17ft tall marble statue of David is found in the Italian city Florence. Which renaissance sculptor created the work?

Down 1 Lightly

2 Foreign pronunciation

2 What time is two and a half hours after 2.30pm?

3 Ward off

3 Digbeth and Edgbaston are suburbs of which British city?

4 Wavers (on edge)

4 Englishman Nick Matthew is considered one of the greatest players of which racquet sport? 5 Which English actress, known for Educating Rita, was made a Dame in 2017?

6 Career-driven (2,7) 7 Giving (prize) 8 Singers or dancers

6 Which South American country gained independence from Spain in 1821?

11 Inquiries

7 In the English language, which 'C' is a 'tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railway'?

17 Set (machine) in motion

15 Puts back in again 18 Woman freed of marriage

8 The Portuguese dish Caldo Verde is predominantly which colour?

20 Moose

9 The Rolex Zenith Daytona is what type of fashion?

22 Drink, ... and soda

10 True or false; the chemical element Einsteinium is named after Albert Einstein?

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the last century that have been outdated, outmoded or just forced into irrelevance by better, modern technologies.

Floppy discs Floppy disks were a type of data storage medium that originally appeared in the 1970s. The first was the 8-inch floppy disc, capable of storing just 80 kilobytes of data. As they got smaller, their storage capacity grew and by the mid1980s the 3.5-inch floppy disk was able to store a respectable 1.44 MB. Floppy disks were unfortunately vulnerable to magnets and heat, and easily corrupted. By the 1990s software size meant many disks were required for most applications (Adobe Photoshop required over a dozen disks to run) so CD-ROMs began to take over.

Obsolete tech that you may have forgotten Part One Dumb phones In a world of smartphones, these old fashioned mobile phones basically did nothing but call, send

text messages and perhaps, if you were lucky, allow you to play a cheeky game of Snake. They are now thoroughly antiquated and more or less obsolete. The precursor to the modern mobile, they were extremely useful in their time and were happily running for days without charge, something which we sorely miss.

Pagers and beepers Originally designed and built in the 1950s, they didn’t really take hold until the 1980s. These one-way communication devices were often used by emergency services and safety personnel who needed to be reachable at all times. The rise of smartphones hastened their decline, but they continued to see use for several more years.

Fax machines The humble fax machine was essentially a modern version of the telegram. For many years, it allowed people and businesses to transmit scanned documents from one phone number to another. The recipient would have the joy of a printed copy of the document bursting forth from their machine. This was all done by a transmission of audio frequency tones that were deciphered at the other end. Like many of the technologies on our list, fax machines have largely been rendered obsolete by the invention of email, the internet and advancements in computing technologies.

Cassette tapes Originally introduced in 1968, compact cassettes used magnetic tape technology to deliver affordable audio to the masses. They were used as either blank tapes that could be recorded onto, or as pre-recorded music cassettes. Cassette tapes gained popularity in the 70s, but by the 90s were outsold by compact discs which soon became the standard format. Nonetheless, cassette tapes continued to sell and it wasn’t until 2001 that they truly began to die, at least in pre-recorded formats. Blank tapes were still being sold right up until 2012. We have hazy memories of fighting cassette players to rescue chewed up tapes and spending hours twizzling them back together with a pencil.

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