Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0335 short lesson, about 20 seconds
World War II's Course
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The idea
The Nazis broke Versailles, rearmed from nineteen thirty-four, and met no resistance until Poland in September nineteen thirty-nine. Blitzkrieg took six countries in nine months. The invasion of the Soviet Union in nineteen forty-one was the war's center.
In practice
About twenty-five million Soviet dead, seventeen million civilians, in the anchor's figures.
Where people slip
Coral Sea, Midway and Rommel's check turned the tide in nineteen forty-two.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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