Numbers speak volumes:
The World Wars have a peculiar habit of starting on dates when the sum of numbers equals 68:
WWI started on 28 July 1914, and the sum of is 28+7+19+14=68
WWII started on1 September 1939, and the sum of is 1+9+19+39=68
WWIII started on 24 February 2022, and the sum of is 1+9+19+39=68
Prelude
Fact 1
British Empire blocked the access of its markets to the USA, thus creating the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which turned into the Great Depression.
Fact 2
By 1929, Russia dropped the idea of the world revolution, expelled Trotsky, and started the collectivization of agriculture and industrialization.
Fact 3
By 1929, the German Army was reduced to 100,000 troops; nevertheless, it kept the core of officers, started the development of new planes, tanks, and artillery, and started covert cooperation with Russians in this domain.
Fact 4
By 1929, the Russian army had only 600,000 and lost most officers due to the Civil War of 1918-1922. The USSR (the Russian Empire reborn in 1922) started cooperation with Germans and Americans in the industrialization of Russia, including the military.
Fact 5 Anglophile Adolf won the 1932 elections and became Reichskanzler. Hitler & Co. launched the German Big Deal by accelerating the development of new military materiel and highways.
Fact 6
Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the 1932 elections and became President. Roosevelt & Co. launched the American Big Deal by accelerating the construction of highways, dams, bridges, and investment in Germany and Russia.
Fact 7 The USA recognized the USSR in 1933, thus facilitating participation in the industrialization and modernization of the USSR together with Germany, a process that started step by step in 1927.
Fact 8
The Popular Front won the general election in France in May 1936 and let Germany occupy the Rhineland. British Empire, let it be. Actually, 1936 was the last chance to stop Hitler and prevent WWII.
Fact 9
French people were the first to profit from paid vacations. British Empire went on with long-term scheming.
Fact 10 The USSR and Germany tried out new military materiel in the 1936-1937 Civil War in Spain. Germans fought for Franco and bombed Guernica. Russians for the Spanish socialist government.
Fact 11
By the end of 1937, the Germans won Franco’s love. Russians won 510 tons or 72,6% of Spanish Gold reserves from the Spanish Government to pay for American and German participation in the industrialization and modernization of the USSR.
Fact 12
On 30 September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain(British Empire) signed the Munich Pact that guaranteed WWII.
Fact 13
British Empire started “appeasement” operations against Germany, helped Adolf Hitler to become the chancellor of the Third Reich, let him unite with Austria, and occupied the Sudeten part of Czechoslovakia on 1 October 1938.
Fact 14
The USA took a major part in building 9000 factories from 1927 to 1940, and the German and American companies participated and delivered.
Fact 15
By 1939, Russia had reached major objectives of industrialization, rid of most of the old pre-1917 revolution guard, and executed most of the Red Generals of the Civil 1918-1922.
Fact 16
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 the Molotov–Ribbentrop non-aggression pact that let them partition Poland and gave them time to improve their armies to kill each other more efficiently.
Fact 17
British Empire manipulated, through Admiral Canaris, Adolf Hitler, to attack Poland on 1 September 1939. That way, the team Wolves(Germany) and team Bears(Russia) were certain to perform brilliantly in the circus of WWII.
Fact 18
France and Britain entered the war on 1 September 1939. WWII began as the “funny” war, without attacks but with a bombardment of Germans with leaflets.
Fact 19
The “funny” war gave Germans ample time to finetune their Blitzkrieg in France and more time for the French military to disorganize themselves and improve the useless Maginot’s fortress.
Fact 20
The “funny” ended on 10 May 1940 when the Germans ignored Maginot and attacked France through Ardennes, Belgium, and Luxembourg. German tanks and infantry quickly reached Dunkirk on May 20, 1940.
Fact 21
Winston Churchill became prime minister of the UK(British Empire) on 10 May 1940.
Fact 22
Rudolf Hess, appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, on 10 May 1941, had flown solo for 1,000 miles from Bavaria to parachute to Scotland for talks with a British prince before Germany invaded Russia on 22 June 1941.
Fact 23
Rudolf Hess was troubled neither by German nor British air defense. Brilliant operation of British Intelligence on the idea of Winston Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. If Germany attacked Russia, the British Empire would hold the second front opening until 1944.
Fact 24
Adolf Hitler ordered his generals on 26 May 1940 to stop the attack and let the British evacuate till 4 June 338326 soldiers. He told generals, “Our future friend Great Britain will need these soldiers to keep order in its Empire.”
Fact 25
On June 22, 1940, an armistice was signed with the Germans near Compiègne in the same railway car that had been the scene of Foch’s triumph in 1918. France was divided into a quasi-sovereign French state with a capital in Vichy and an occupied zone.
Fact 26
Adolf Hitler felt himself a military genius accompanied by the thunderous quire of admirers directed by Admiral Canaris. Germany attacked the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, sure of its superiority and experience acquired in the Blitzkrieg war with France.
Fact 27
Blitzkrieg bis in Russia within 10 days couldn’t go as fast as in France. The enormous size of the USSR, Russian armies, poor roadwork, and climate didn’t facilitate the task. Hitler repeated Napoleon’s mistakes and made new ones.
Fact 28
Blitzkrieg « Barbarossa » rolls on. Germany wiped out 3000 Russian planes on 22 June 1941. German armies broke through Russian defenses one by one but got stuck every time due to the hard stand of Russian armies.
Fact 29
1941 8 September: Siege of Leningrad begins.
Fact 30
1941 30 September began the Battle of Moscow, ending by 7 January 1942. Blitzkrieg failed.
Fact 31
By 7 November 1941, Germans occupied 30% of the European part of Russia, lost over 1 million own soldiers, wiped out 10000 Russian tanks, encircled and captured due to massive propaganda 4 million soldiers and 3 million POWs died before the end of WWII in 1945.
Fact 32
By 5 December, the Wehrmacht had lost the Battle for Moscow, and the invasion had cost the German Army over 830,000 men. German potential to win the war ended, Father Frost helped, and mistakes in German equipment and uniforms proved fatal.
Fact 33
1941 7 December: Attack on Pearl Harbor, which leads to the USA joining World War II.
Fact 34
The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies lost.1943 2 February: The Battle of Stalingrad ended with over two million casualties and the retreat of the German Army.
Fact 34
1943 July to August: The failed Battle of Kursk becomes the last Nazi offensive on the Eastern Front.
Fact 35
1943 November to December: The Tehran Conference between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin agree to launch Operation Overlord.
1944 6 June: D-Day landings in Normandy.
1944 June to August: Soviet forces launch Operation Bagration on the Eastern Front, the biggest defeat in German military history.
1944 20 July: Adolf Hitler survives the 20 July plot to assassinate him led by Claus von Stauffenberg.
1944 19–25 August: Liberation of Paris.
1945 4–11 February: Yalta Conference.
1945 13–15 February: Allied bombing of Dresden.
1945 12 April: Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Vice President Harry Truman assumes office as President of the United States.
1945 April to May: Battle of Berlin.
1945 28 April: Execution of Benito Mussolini.
1945 30 April: Suicide of Adolf Hitler.
1945 May: End of World War II in Europe.
1944 27 January: The Siege of Leningrad ends with Soviet victory after over a million deaths.
1944 6 June: D-Day landings in Normandy.
1944 June to August: Soviet forces launch Operation Bagration on the Eastern Front, the biggest defeat in German military history.
1944 20 July: Adolf Hitler survives the 20 July plot to assassinate him led by Claus von Stauffenberg.
1944 19–25 August: Liberation of Paris.
1944 19 September: The Continuation War ends.
1944 October to December: American and Filipino troops begin the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines.
1945 4–11 February: Yalta Conference.
1945 13–15 February: Allied bombing of Dresden.
1945, 12 April: Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Vice President Harry Truman assumed office as President of the United States.
1945 April to May: Battle of Berlin.
1945 28 April: Execution of Benito Mussolini.
1945 30 April: Suicide of Adolf Hitler.
1945 May: End of World War II in Europe.
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