Lend-Lease, the Atlantic Charter and later the United Nations Declaration (1 January 1942) turned a set of bilateral fights into a coalition with shared -- if unequal -- aims. Detroit, the Urals, the Ruhr, Osaka and the Midlands became as decisive as any river crossing. Shipping, oil, aluminium and ball bearings set the tempo of offensives.
Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and Station HYPO, radar, and the B-29 and V-2 programmes show how laboratories entered the order of battle without turning this page into a weapons manual. Nazi rule in Europe organised plunder, slave labour and the Holocaust: about six million Jews murdered, alongside millions of other targeted civilians.
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Lend-Lease, the Atlantic Charter and later the United Nations Declaration (1 January 1942) turned a set of bilateral fights into a coalition with shared -- if unequal -- aims. Detroit, the Urals, the Ruhr, Osaka and the Midlands became as decisive as any river crossing. Shipping, oil, aluminium and ball bearings set the tempo of offensives.
Codebreaking at Bletchley Park and Station HYPO, radar, and the B-29 and V-2 programmes show how laboratories entered the order of battle without turning this page into a weapons manual. Nazi rule in Europe organised plunder, slave labour and the Holocaust: about six million Jews murdered, alongside millions of other targeted civilians.
Yalta and Potsdam framed occupation zones, while the Tokyo and Nuremberg tribunals tried a new language of crimes against peace and humanity. The 1945 UN Charter promised collective security that the Cold War immediately strained. Korea was divided at the 38th parallel; China's civil war resumed; Eastern Europe entered Soviet hegemony. The map of 1946 was a new system, not a repaired 1938.
The Second World War was not one campaign but overlapping wars in Europe, Asia, Africa and at sea, bound by alliance diplomacy and factory output. The 1939-1945 war sits between the unfinished settlement of 1918 and the nuclear, alliance and memory systems that followed.
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