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The second worls war and its impact on Ecuador

Abstract:

The Second World War was the largest and the most violent armed conflict that opposed, between 1939 and 1945, the Allied countries with a democratic ideology and the Axis coalition with a totalitarian character. At the beginning of the war, the first block consisted of the United Kingdom, France, Poland, the United States of America, China and the Soviet Union. The war was started by Germany, but later it was joined by Italy and Japan, making the Axis Powers block. The start of the war was in September 1, 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. Many countries which weren t initially involved joined the war later as a result of events such as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The Second World War was not only fought in the European and Pacific battlefields. Some other small nations also were involved in this huge struggle. The Republic of Ecuador was one of these nations, playing an important role during it. Ecuador had been experiencing an economic crisis, which lasted until the Second World War when Ecuador sided with the Allies and profited from raw material exports. However, Peru took the opportunity to seize the undeveloped Amazonian territories from Ecuador, causing a war with Peru in 1941 and forcing the Ecuadorian government to fall and sign the Rio Protocol in 1942. Over seventy million people, the majority civilians, were killed, making the Second World War the deadliest conflict in human history.