Apocalypse: The Second World War (1939-1945)

Apocalypse: The Second World War (1939-1945)

Author Name : Reeni Sana

ABSTRACT Europe, Asia, North Africa and enormous swaths of the Pacific were ravaged by the Second World War, which was the biggest conflict in human history. It started out as two distinct wars: Germany against Poland, France and Great Britain in 1939 and Japan against China in the 1930s. The two wars became one global conflict when the United States entered both in December 1941. During this conflict, a group of Allied powers, including the US, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, China, Free France and several other smaller countries, defeated a group of Axis states, which included Germany, Italy, Japan and smaller satellites. It was also a battle with multiple facets, ranging from the whole "barbarization" of the eastern front to the "war of a kind" in the Pacific to many variations in many other regions. Richard Bosworth examines the reasons, developments and outcomes of these numerous wars in his article, giving particular emphasis to the historiographical discussions that have, in a great number of countries, kept the war relevant and alive for subsequent generations since 1945. He thus chronicles the history of a "war that never ended”. This article mostly takes a factual approach, with a separate part on the psychological and economic aspects of the conflict to describe the origins, course and consequences of the war.