--- title: The Second World War — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Second World War», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In the 1930s a huge economic crisis, the Great Depression, left millions without jobs, and in some countries frightened, angry people turned to dicta --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / The Second World War # 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/34-the-second-world-war/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/34-the-second-world-war/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 War](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/33-the-first-world-war/) - next →: [Space: from Sputnik to the Moon](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/35-space-from-sputnik-to-the-moon/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)