The Second World War Lesson 34 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 14 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 In the 1930s a huge economic crisis, the Great Depression, left millions without jobs, and in some countries frightened, angry people turned to dictators who promised strength and blamed others. 2 In 1939 Germany invaded Poland and a war began that spread across the whole world; British children were sent to the countryside with a gas mask and a name label, and Ukraine was one of the places worst hit of all. 3 The Nazis murdered about six million Jews, and many others, only because of who they were; this is called the Holocaust, and we remember it so that such hatred never happens again. 6 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took power in Germany in 1933, ended free elections and free speech, and persecuted Jews and others. 7 In September 1939 Germany invaded Poland, and Britain and France declared war; the Second World War lasted until 1945 and was the largest war in history. 8 In 1940 Germany conquered much of Europe, but Britain, led by Winston Churchill, fought on, and the Royal Air Force won the Battle of Britain in the skies. 9 In the Blitz German planes bombed British cities, and many children were evacuated to the countryside with a gas mask and a label to live with strangers. 10 Ukraine was one of the places worst hit: fighting went back and forth across it, cities were ruined, and millions of Ukrainians died as soldiers and as civilians. 11 The Nazis murdered about six million Jews, as well as many Roma, disabled people and others, only because of who they were; this is called the Holocaust. 12 Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis in Amsterdam, and it tells one girl's story to millions of readers. 13 The Soviet Union was attacked by Germany in June 1941, and the USA joined the war after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941. 14 The Allies, including Britain, the Soviet Union, the USA and China, fought against Germany, Italy and Japan, and soldiers came from all over the world, including India and Africa. 15 On 6 June 1944, D-Day, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in France, the largest landing from the sea in history, which began the freeing of western Europe. 16 The war ended in Europe in May 1945 and in Asia in August 1945, after the USA dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki; each single bomb destroyed most of a city. ← previous The First World Warnext → Space: from Sputnik to the Moon↑ back to History This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/