Course of Second world War: # World War II officially began on September 1, 1939. # Germany conquered – Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland and France. # Battle of Britain – Germany vs Britain (air battle; German Air force =Luftwaffe). # Battle of Stalingrad – Germany vs USSR. (Operation of Barbaressa (1941 = Attack on Yugoslavia and Greece; Russia countered attack on Moscow with Scorched Earth Policy). # Atlantic Charter (August 1941) – Between Churchil (UK) and Roosevelt (USA). # Pearl Harbor Attack (7th December 1941) – Japan on USA. # Italy vs UK in Africa (1942) – Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan, British Somaliland, Eritrea. # France was conquered by Germany in 1940, but British and American troops liberated France in 1944. # Atom bomb – Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Consequences of Second World War: # End of colonialism and imperialism. # End of dictatorship in Germany and Italy. # Germany was divided into West Germany and East Germany. West Germany was controlled by Britain, France and USA. East Germany by USSR. # Strengthening of nationalist movements in Africa and Asia. (From Britain – India, Myanmar, Egypt, Sri Lanka; From America – Philippines; From France – Indo-China; From Dutch – Indonesia) # 5 crore deaths (2.2 crore soldiers and 2.8 crore civilians) # Economics problems – Unemployment, low growth etc. # Emergence of two power blocks – USA and USSR. This resulted in cold war. # Emergence of third world Countries. # UNO was set up in 1945.