- Original Subtitle by : Military History - WATCH TILL THE END SO YOU DON'T FAIL TO UNDERSTAND :) World War 2 resulted in the deaths of around 55 million people throughout the world. This war was the largest and most destructive conflict in history. The First World War ended with a ceasefire and the creation of the Versailles agreement. The Treaty of Versailles was a heavy blow to the German people and triggered the collapse of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Over the next few decades, Hitler's career rose to become chancellor. And when President Paul Von Hindenburg died, he appointed himself Fuhrer or supreme commander of the Nazi paramilitary forces. When he came to power, Hitler criticized the Treaty of Versailles, calling it unfair. At the end of the First World War, both parties agreed to end the first world war with a ceasefire. This means that the war ended without any country losing or surrendering. However, the Versailles Agreement seemed to have dealt a serious blow to the German people. The contents of the agreement were that Germany had to pay war reparations worth 20 billion Goldmarks. At that time, it was equivalent to the price of 7,000 tons of gold. "Germany's defeat left Hitler discouraged and in need of a new focus," the Daily Telegraph quoted him as saying. Hitler and other German leaders believed that Germany lost World War I because it had to fight on two fronts. To prevent this, Hitler and Joseph Stalin (Soviet) signed a 10-year non-aggression agreement on August 23. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That's when World War II began. The strategy begins with destroying enemy air control, railways, communication lines and dropping ammunition. About 1.5 million German troops were deployed to invade Poland. Germany exhibited a modern combat strategy known as Blitzkrieg. This strategy did not involve static defenses or fortifications like in the first world war. However, the best defense in this strategy is a combination of troops that are constantly moving when carrying out an attack. This attack requires war machines that are constantly moving, fighter planes that control the air, and large infantry troops that are constantly maneuvering. This kind of attack will take the enemy by surprise, making it difficult to coordinate so they can easily be cornered. This is what made the German troops successful in crushing Poland. In just 2 days, Poland was completely destroyed , killing around 6 million Polish citizens and military. Two days after Germany's attack on Poland, Britain and France declared war on Hitler. Then England gave Germany an ultimatum to withdraw its troops from Poland. Germany greeted this ultimatum by sinking British ships in European waters. After attacking Poland, Germany launched attacks on Denmark and Norway and succeeded in occupying both countries. Then they attacked the Netherlands. In comparison, the Dutch who colonized this country for 350 years were like a monster for this country. Nazi Germany only needed 5 days to force the Dutch kingdom to bend its knees and surrender to Hitler's ferocity. Germany succeeded in taking control of the Netherlands in May 1940, so Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. And continuing to advance into Belgium, the combined British, French and Belgian troops were unable to hold back the German Blitzkrieg all the way to Dunkirk. However, a miraculous event occurred. When the combined Allied forces were pressed, Hitler ordered the troops commanded by Henz Guderian not to advance to Dunkirk. And finally the Allied troops were successfully evacuated to British soil. Historians call this Hitler's first blunder which made the Allies prepare a counterattack. Belgium fell on 11 May 1940. Italy declared war against the Allies and continued to invade France on 10 June 1940. Germany attacked France and succeeded in occupying France in June 1940, causing the French army under the leadership of Charles de Gaulle to flee to England. Germany continued its attack on the Western front by attacking England. However, this effort failed because England had an army that was still better than mainland European countries. And at that time England was still King of the Seas, with a very large Royal British Navy Fleet. Germany also did not make England its main target, and actually wanted to make peace with England after the Dunkirk incident. However, Hitler's peace speech was rejected by the British people and the British prime minister, Winston Churchill, was also not interested. This was covered by a British BBC news broadcast. On 25 August 1940, the British Royal Air Force attacked the German capital Berlin, with thousands of bombers. And for the first time, it made the German population feel this war. So the Lutwaffe carried out a counterattack. On September 7 1940, German planes flew into the skies of London and dropped tons of bombs from the air. The night attack caused extraordinary panic in London. This caused casualties and great damage in London. The capital of the kingdom burned fiercely, London became a sea of fire. For days at midnight during early September, the Lutwaffe dropped bombs from over the city of London. Londoners were forced to evacuate, others were forced to hide in the basements of their houses. Some of the city's residents died lying under the rubble. An event that made the new British PM nervous. The British PM, Winston Churchill, immediately contacted the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he asked the United States to immediately intervene and immediately get involved in the European war. England also received assistance from the United States. This caused Germany, Italy and Japan to sign a military defense pact on September 27 1940. The pact contained an agreement to help each other if one of the three countries was attacked by another country. Apart from that, there was also war on the Eastern front which was centered on the area separating Germany and the Soviet Union. Hitler and Stalin initially made an agreement not to attack each other, but Hitler ignored it. Germany attacked to the East to control the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941. Meanwhile in the Asia Pacific, Japan bombarded the American Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941. The attack forced America into World War II. . Germany's move to invade the Soviet Union was Hitler's personal ambition which was outlined in his book Main Camp in 1925. Hitler said clearly that the German people needed land and needed space to live and this could be achieved by controlling the lands of the Soviet Union which had large amounts of land. very extensive and rich in natural resources including petroleum. This not only supported the German people, but could also move the German war machine and its army. Even though Hitler's efforts to invade the eastern front had received a lot of resistance from his generals , especially in the army. Because at the same time, Germany was still facing war on the western front. With the distance being too far and the timing not being right for attacking the eastern front. However, because of Adolf Hitler's stubbornness, this operation was also carried out. Hitler deployed a force of 150 divisions, 139 of which were Panzer divisions, the number of troops deployed reached 3 million people and was supported by 3,350 tanks, 7,184 Artillery, 2,770 Aircraft Units and 600 thousand vehicles. This deployment of force made the Barbarosa operation the largest military operation in history. Starting from the delay in the operation time from the specified schedule and the breakdown of the concentration of the war to the diversion of the center which was ready to seize the city of Moscow. Moving south is a problem in itself. Hitler divided his ground forces into 3 attack lines. The first group to the north, led by General Wilhelm Von Leeb, headed for Leningrad. Group 2 took the central route towards the Smolenks and Moscow, led by General Fedor Von Bock. And a third group to the south of Kiev Ukraine, led by Gerd Von Rundstedt. The Soviet Union, which at that time was led by Joseph Stalin, was actually in a condition that was not ready to accept attacks. At that time several Soviet cities were easily captured by the Germans. On the eastern front, during the summer of 1942, Germany and the Axis again attacked the Soviet Union. With the aim of capturing Stalingrad on the Volga River, as well as the city of Baku and the oil fields of the Caucasus. German attacks stalled on both fronts in late summer 1942. In November, Soviet troops launched a counteroffensive at Stalingrad. And on February 2, 1943, the German Sixth Army surrendered to the Soviet army. German troops launched one more attack on Kursk in July 1943. Which was the largest tank battle in history. But Soviet troops countered the attack, and maintained military dominance that was maintained throughout the war. Hitler's blunders also caused the dominance of the German army to decline sharply. The Red Army finally turned around to control the field and had the upper hand. The arrival of a severe winter also benefited the Soviet Union's troops who had better control of the terrain. Germany, which also relied on a blitzkrieg strategy, did not apply in the vast Soviet world. Hitler's dream of dominating the Soviets had to be buried deep along with the freezing of their steel troops and the Fuhrer's proud fighting equipment. Germany had to leave Russia since it was pushed back from Stalingard on November 19 1942. Russian troops invaded Poland and the Balkan areas controlled by Germany. Soviet troops succeeded in recapturing the territories of Romania, Bulgaria (18 September 1944), Yugoslavia (12 October 1944), and Hungary (13 February 1945). Italy finally became the Allied target with the sending of troops under the leadership of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. These troops entered via Sicily and Naples. In July 1943, Allied troops landed in Sicily and in September docked on the coast of mainland Italy. After the Grand Council of the Italian Fascist Party relinquished the post of prime minister of Italy. Namely Benito Mussolini (Hitler's ally), the Italian military took over and negotiated to surrender to American forces on September 8. German troops stationed in Italy seized control of the northern half of the peninsula, and continued resistance. Mussolini, who had been captured by the Italian military, was rescued by German SS commandos in September and established a neo-Fascist puppet regime (under German supervision) in Northern Italy. German troops continued to control northern Italy until they surrendered on May 2, 1945. Eisehower's troops and Montgomery's troops invaded Normandy on June 6, 1944. This attack was unable to be overcome by Generals Rommel and Rundstedt. France was successfully wrested from German control at the end of August 1944. On September 11, 1944, the first American troops crossed into Germany, a month after Soviet troops crossed the eastern border. In mid-December, Germany launched a counteroffensive in Belgium and northern France known as the Battle of the Bulge. But failing, the Allied air force attacked Nazi industrial factories, such as the factory at the Auschwitz camp (however, the gas chambers were never targeted). The Allies invaded Germany towards Berlin, Soviet troops began their offensive on January 12 1945. And liberated western Poland, forcing Hungary (an Axis ally) to surrender. In mid-February 1945, the Allies bombed the German city of Dresden. American troops crossed the Rhine River on March 7, 1945. The final Soviet offensive on April 16, 1945, allowed Soviet troops to encircle the German capital, Berlin. Goring was captured, while Hitler and Gobbels committed suicide. Admiral Domitz surrendered unconditionally on May 8 1945. Germany was declared unconditional surrender. Germany was finally willing to sign a peace agreement at Potsdam on August 2 1945. The Allies continued their actions with the success of United States troops defeating Kaigun Japan. General Mac Arthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz succeeded in occupying the Philippines (1944) and Iwojima and Okinawa (1945). The United States finally dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan was conquered and surrendered unconditionally to the Allies on August 14 1945. Japan was willing to sign an agreement on the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2 1945. The end of World War II was marked by the surrender of Italy, Germany and Japan to the Allies. After that, both parties entered into peace agreements.