Observe the attack direction of the Axis countries and talk about the situation of the European battlefield in the early World War II.

The Second World War was 1939- 1945 (China scholars believe that the starting and ending time of World War II was 193 1 year from September to September 1945 and 65438+September to 1945.

The war of World War II spread to Asia, Europe and Africa, with as many as 6 1 country, the population participating in the war reaching10.7 billion, and the total number of mobilized armed forces exceeding 1. 1 billion. The total number of military casualties in the participating countries exceeded 50 million, and with the addition of civilians, the total number of casualties reached 90 million. The total military expenditure of participating countries is 654.38 USD +035.2 million USD. Together with financial consumption and material losses, the total loss reached 4 trillion US dollars.

The anti-fascist countries and people who directly participated in the war paid a huge human and financial price. During the war, the total casualties of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain reached 6.5438+0.86 million, while the casualties of the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union reached 20 million. Property losses in the United States amounted to $350 billion, in the Soviet Union to $200 billion, in Britain to $654.38+05 billion, and in China to more than $654.38+00 billion.

The fascist countries themselves suffered heavy losses in the great war. During the war, Germany mobilized a total of 65.438+0.7 million troops, accounting for 26.5438+0.5% of the country's total population, resulting in 65.438+0.65438+0.7 million military casualties and economic losses of 300 billion US dollars. Japan mobilized 9.7 million troops, accounting for 12.8% of the country's total population. The total number of military casualties reached 2 16 10000, and the economic loss reached 1000 billion US dollars.

The course of World War II is usually divided into three stages: the strategic attack of the Axis and the strategic defense of the Allies, the strategic stalemate and strategic turning point, the strategic attack of the Allies and the failure of the Axis.

1September 1939 to1summer and autumn 1942, the axis countries of Germany, Italy and Japan successively launched comprehensive strategic offensives on their respective battlefields. After being resisted by allied forces and anti-fascist forces all over the world, its offensive spirit gradually weakened, and finally reached the end of its strategic offensive in Stalingrad, Alaman in Africa and Midway in the Pacific.

Before the fundamental turning point of the war situation, each major battlefield has its own strategic stalemate stage. Around 1942 1 1, the allied forces successively carried out the battles of slinger Le, El Alamein and Guadalajara in three main battlefields, marking the realization of the strategic turning point of the Great War.

1944, the allies successively turned to the all-round strategic offensive in the Eurasian battlefield. On the European battlefield, the Soviet Union took the lead in launching a powerful offensive on the eastern front, and then the allies such as the United States and Britain landed in France, forming an east-west attack on Germany. In the Asian and Pacific battlefields, the Allies launched a strategic attack on the Japanese army through island landing operations and air and sea operations. Resistance movements and guerrilla warfare in Europe and Asia cooperated with the allied attacks and accelerated the pace of national liberation.

1945 In February, the heads of the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain held the Yalta Conference, which finally defeated the German and Japanese fascists and established a new post-war international order. In April 1945, 1, the allied forces surrounded the German main force in the western line of Ruhr, and later reached the Elbe River. On April 16, the Soviet army launched the Berlin Campaign, joined forces with the American army in Tolgao on the Elbe River on the 25th, broke into the center of Berlin on the 27th and stormed the Reichstag on the 29th. On the 30th, Hitler committed suicide. On May 8, representatives of the German High Command formally signed the unconditional surrender of Germany.