THE CHANGING FACE OF WAR In the early 1900s the world was easier to control The planes could changing The age of machines had also carry larger weapons Airplanes arrived Airplanes automobiles and launched from ships completely other gas powered vehicles were changed naval warfare But air power becoming common This technology was not the only change for the navies was changing not only society but also New submarines meant that danger how wars were fought lurked below too War was becoming more dangerous and more destructive War machines were bigger faster and more powerful than ever before Artillery could fire more powerful missiles and shoot them farther BELOW WWII brought huge advancements in technology and weaponry Planes were becoming faster
mTHIHLuanda LEFT For the German people Hitler was the man who could lead them out of their misery and back to greatness RIGHT The greatest tragedy of war is the loss of human life WAR IS RARELY ABOUT GOOD AGAINST EVIL influence The Allied countries were also fighting to protect and expand Many of the ideas of the German their influence in other parts of the leader Adolf Hitler were certainly world For example the British evil But it is wrong to look at the Axis Germans and Italians fought for forces as evil and the Allied forces control of Egypt Imagine what this as good There were ordinary people battle looked like to Egyptians three on both sides of the conflict and the foreign countries fighting for control of circumstances of war demanded that their land people do things they would never World War II resulted in terrible have done outside of war Perhaps the destruction Between 50 million and greatest evil was committed by both 70 million people died almost half of sides the bombing of cities and the them civilians Countless buildings killing of civilians and homes were destroyed The It is also a mistake to consider the Axis study of war should not be a study of countries as the only group trying good and evil but of what should be to expand their territory power and avoided in the
Axis and Allied Territory 1939 SA and counties Alled controlled Iceland uss Manageunion agreement with As peers Atlantic Ocean Finland Soviet Union Union Britain Denmark Manchuria Netherlands SCO Son of Japan East Sea English Channel Czechoslovakia Yellow Sto Finance Autold Switzerland Hunga East China Black Set Bulgaria Aban Turkey Sardinia Syria Iraq Mediterranean Ser Lebanon Sauchi Egypt THE WAR BEGINS Germany Italy and Japan formed an alliance in the 1930s This alliance is referred to as the Axis At the end of August 1939 the USSR was not part of the Axis but it had promised not to attack Germany In 1939 Italy controlled Albania and Germany controlled Austria and Czechoslovakia Australia Britain Canada France and India called Allied countries or the Allies stood alone against the
Axis and Allied Territory 1942 O Neutral Nations in 1942 Alied controlled Areas in late 1942 Aain controlled Areas in late 1942 Iceland Atlantic Ocean Finland Union Britain Netherlands SL East Prus English Channel Marshall islands Czechoslovakia embourg Dutch East Austria New Guinea Switzerland face Italy Yugoslavia Black Sea Portugal Turkey Sardinia Syria tag Mediterranean Sea Algeria Saudi Libya When the war began in 1939 south into the Mediterranean and Germany had only one front on North Africa This opened two new which it focused its military might fronts the Eastern or Russian Front That front was between Germany and the Mediterranean Front and and the Allied countries to the west Africa At the end of 1941 Japan the Western Front By the middle of attacked the United States opening 1941 the Axis controlled almost all up conflict in the Pacific At that of mainland Europe Hitler began time the war truly became global his push east into the USSR and
