tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19286637197347944362024-02-22T09:30:00.564-08:001937 to 1945 - World in Flames- to write about WW2... it´s not autotelic, it´s not search for action or adventure, it´s a trip to the darkest period of our history when humanity itself was fighting for survivalHerní pamětníkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07695428809711368735noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1928663719734794436.post-59562269792705311662015-03-05T07:55:00.003-08:002015-03-05T07:55:54.162-08:00WWII? What was that? And when did it start? Part II - Road to the Treaty of Versailles<div style="text-align: justify;">
On 23 June 1914, Archduke <i>Franz Ferdinand of Austria</i> and his wife <i>Sophie</i> said farewell to their children and left chateau in small city of <i>Chlum u Trebone</i> in south Bohemia. They departed from nearby railway station to meet their fate in Sarajevo. Their death by hand of <i>Gavrilo Princip</i> on 28 June set events in deadly motion and the world felt into agony of the world war.</div>
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Assasination of <i>Franz Ferdinand</i> became a trigger for a global war in which two sides were the Allies (UK, France and the Russian Empire constitutes so-called "<i>Triple Entente</i>", Italy joined the alliance in 1915 and the USA in 1917, Japan was another member of the alliance) and Central powers (Germany and Austrian-Hungarian empire, later joined by Ottoman empire and Bulgaria). Bloody battles were seen also in Africa and Asia but it was Europe where the most brutal, bloody battles were seen. In Europe, several fronts were opened - western front, eastern front and Italian front. However, events of 1917 decided that the war will be concluded on western front. After the collapse of the Russian empire due to the Russian revolution, both Germany and Austrian-Hungarian empire was able to release a large number of troops for other European fronts. But this did not lead to victory, it was the other way around - entrance of the United States to the war and catastrophic economic situation of Germany plus collapse of the Austrian army and fail of the Ludendorff offensive followed by Allied "hundred day offensive" lead German leaders to the proposal of armistice. On 11.11 at 11:11, it took the effect. Military operations of the Great war were over.<br />
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The map below shows the operations in the last period of war and we can see where the front was in that time. Look at it carefuly because it´s of extreme importance if you try to understand the roots of WWII...<br />
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<i>Operations on western front 20 March - 11 November 1918, </i><span style="text-align: justify;"><i>American Military History, United States Army Center of Military History, 1989</i></span></div>
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As you can see, when armistice took effect, the German army was still on Belgian and French soil - it was retreating but it was not defeated. After all, Germans did not surrender, they just proposed armistice. Nevertheless, the Allies - who consider themselves as an absolute victors - organized the conference in Paris. It began in January 1919 and its aim was to set the peace terms for the Central powers which were not invited to Paris until the proposal was finished...</div>
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Herní pamětníkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07695428809711368735noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1928663719734794436.post-28379746480564008842015-02-17T23:57:00.001-08:002015-02-18T03:38:42.385-08:00WWII? What was that? And when did it start? Part I<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">When talking about WWII, people usually know what it was
about, or at least they think they know it. The fact is, that the definition of
WWII is not as easy as it seems. If we seek for help at Wikipedia, we will
learn that WWII was „the global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though
related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world´s
nations….“. Well, I think that this definition doesn´t tell us much:</span><span style="font-family: "Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Why is 1939 marked as its beginning?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">What were those „related“ conflicts?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Why are some conflicts marked as „related“ and are not included in WWII itself?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">And what exactly was happening on this planet between 1939 and 1945?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">As I
believe that looking for a single definition which embraces every aspect of
WWII is lost in advance, I will rather try to write a short summary of it. At
first, I think that it´s not accurate to take WWII as a single conflict, rather
than that, it was a series of conflicts which later merged into one global war
as two military alliances - Axis and Allies - evolved in time. However,
especially the Axis was an alliance in which its two main partners - Germany
and Japan - were not really cooperating neither on strategic nor tactical
level. When looking for the roots of WWII, we must go back in time to the year
of 1918 when so-called "Great War" changed the world forever...</span><span style="font-family: "Malgun Gothic","sans-serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">WWI cost
more than 16 million lives and caused a deep shock all around the world and
especially in Europe where most of the fighting took place. Up to that moment,
such a brutality and scale of war was not imaginable. It has redrawn the map of
the world: Austrian-Hungarian empire was wiped out and it was replaced by
several new countries including my own (Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, part
to Poland, Yogoslavia and Romania)</span><span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">. German empire lost its colonies in Africa and
was replaced by short-lived Weimar Republic. Russian Tzar was overthrown by a
revolution and communists took power in this huge country. Ottoman empire was
replaced by Turkish Republic. In the Middle East, several countries were formed
with ruler in hands of planners without knowledge of local reality - we must
deal with the consequences of this up to present days. On the other hand, the
United States increased its superpower status, Great Britain ended the war with
a huge debt and high inflation. Its empire began to corode as Commonwealth
nations started to think more independently. France was destroyed, every family
was affected by war which was fought mainly on its soil. Pro-independence
movements in French colonies began to rise. Japan gained territories in Asia
and significantly raised its influence. No other war changed the world in such
a scale as the Great War. As people were cheering and celebrating the end of an
apocalypse, only a few were able to see that stage was set for another
conflict... One of them was a French Marshal Ferdinand Foch who said that "the Treaty of Versailles is not peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years". I will take a look on the Treaty of Versailles in the next part of this.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Marshal Ferdinand Foch, supreme allied commander in the Great War</span></i></div>
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Jews in Auschwitz - children and older people were not considered
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<small><small>(ISBN 4-88900-218-9)</small></small></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Malgun Gothic';">Allow me to introduce
myself at this moment: I am 33 years old guy living in Prague, Czech
Republic. I work in R&D in the field of chemistry. Modern history -
and especially history of WWII - is one of my greatest interests. As a
youngster, I loved to read war books and watch war movies. My
image of WWII was defined my "The Longest Day", "A Bridge Too Far",
"Midway", "Tora, Tora, Tora, Tora" and many others. Nice pieces of art
but the war seemed to be great, romantic adventure. As I was getting
older I began to realize the reality - those millions who died were not
supporting actors, they were real people who had their dreams, who
loved, who felt joy and pain and horror. They had loved ones, families
and friends. When I´ve realized this, WWII was never the same for
me. I´m still interested in every aspect of it, but I try to see
real people and their feelings much more than technical characteristics
of weapons. And the true is that if you are really interested in it,
you cannot avoid several questions: How something like this happen? Why
something like this happen? And most importantly - Can something like
this happen again? I´m sure it can, and only way to avoid it is
to be careful students of history. It gives us the lecture, the rest is
upon us.... </span></div>
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