June 27, 1941: Recruitment of the Blue Division.

July 12, 1941: Anglo-Soviet pact against Germany.

August 1941: Atlantic Charter (Churchill-Roosevelt).

December 7, 1941: Ataque japonés sobre Pearl Harbor. EE.UU. entra en guerra.

January 20, 1942: Wannsee Conference. The Nazi hierarchy agrees to undertake «the final solution» of the Jewish problem.

September-October 1940: Italy attacks Greece and British Egypt. War begins in the Balkans and North Africa.

November 1940-April 1941: Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece fall under the rule of the Axis troops.

June 22, 1941: Germany launches Operation Barbarossa. The invasion of the URSS

June 10, 1940: Italy declares war on France and Great Britain.

June 22, 1940: Franco-German armistice in Compiègne.

July 10, 1940-October 31, 1940: Battle of England

November 30, 1939: Soviet attack on Finland.

April 9 – June 10, 1941: German occupation of Denmark and Norway.

May 10, 1940: German attack on Holland, Belgium and France.

The Second World War officially Begean in september 1, 1939, lasted until september 2, 1945, and left at least 50 million dead, including six million Jews. The principal dates are:

September 1, 1939: German troops invade poland.

September 3, 1939: France and Great Britain declare ware on Germany.

April 9, 1940: Germany invades northern and Western Europe, occupying France in a month.

Holocaust was the persecution and the murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Nazis came to power in Germany in January 1933, they believed that the Germans were a superior race, Jews were inferior and that they represented a threat to the Germany racial community.

Fascism is a far-right undemocratic political system characterized by being totalitarian. This means that through the use of the army, the government eliminates all democratic powers and turns it into an absolutist state. This political system was designed by Mussolini.

Adolf Hitler was obsessed with ideas about race. In his speeches and in his wrtings, Hitler Spread his belief in racial purity and the superiority of the German race, what he called a superior aryan race. He declared that his race must remain pure in order to take control of the World. For Hitler the aryan ideal was blond, blue eyed and tall.

Imperialism is an organization system, which is based on ideas of superiority and on the application of domination practice. It is the set of practices that imply the extension of the authority and control of one state or people over another.

Socialism is an organization system economic-social. This regime was directed by Stalin and it was a cause of the Second World War.

Characteristic:

– Social equality

– Abolition of private property

– Greater control by the state (against liberalism)

– Nationalization of the means of production

– Substitution of the capitalist system by a communist system (Marxism)