WWII
instead of trenc warfare fast-moving fronts
reason: mechanisation, technological advances (flattops, aeroplanes, tanks)
Bombardment
cities were bombarded - Dresden was destroyed within 24 hours;
Budapest was bombarded by the Allies after the German occupation
1st aerial battle in England: Luftwaffe and RAF
bunkers = shelters
Atombombs: Hiroshima - 6th August, 1945; Nagasaki - 9th August, 1945
Hinterland
famine, rationing
ignoring the international rules connecting to prisoners of war
massacres: Katyn, Japan, in the USA: interment camps for Japanese
resistance movement/ partisans
operated in German occupied countrie as irregular military forcess
resistance fights against Germans
Punishment after the war
July, 1945. Conference in Potsdam
Stalin, Henry Truman (USA), Clement Attlee (GB)
AltémNuremberg Trials: International Military Tribunal - 12 Nazi leaders were sentenced to death
1) Crime against peace 2) crimes against humanity 3) war crimes