The Start of WWII
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Second Wild War in Europe
The second war in europe was precipitated by gamblers strutting proud, confident after easy winds on previous hands. Hitler misjudged response thebritish and french governments to his action in poland. He turned east against erstwhile ally starlin, and decided to precipitate a gigantic war with the soviet union as well. The war that follows has shaped everything that's come since, from the space race to national boundaries,. end of empires, nuclear weapons, down to the far more prosaic.
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