1.Long Live the Empire—The Attack on Poland 帝國萬歲——閃擊波蘭
The lnvasion of Poland in 1939，also known as“1939 Defensive War”in Poland and the“Poland Campaign”in Germany,was carried out by Germany,the Soviet Union,and a small German—allied Slovak contingent that marked the start of World War ll in Europe.The invasion began on September 1 1939，one week after the signing of the secret Molotov—Ribbentrop Pact,and ended on 6 October 1939 with Germany and the Soviet Union occupying the whole of Poland.
The morning after the Gleiwitz incident,German forces invaded Poland from the north,south,and west.As the Germans advanced,Polish forces withdrew from their forward bases of operation close to the Polish-German border to more established lines of defence to the east.After the mid-September Polish was defeated in the Battle of the Bzura,the Germans gained an undisputed advantage.Polish forces then withdrew to the southeast where they prepared for a long defence of the Romanian Bridgehead and were to await an expected support and relief from France and the United Kingdom.
The Soviet Red Army\\u0027s invaded Eastern Poland on 17 September,in accordance with a secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.Facing the second front,the Polish government concluded the defence of the Romanian Bridgehead was no longer feasible and ordered an emergency evacuation of all troops to neutral Romania.On 6 October,following the Polish defeat at the Battle of Kock,German and Soviet forces gained full control over Poland.The success of the invasion marked the end of the Second Polish Republic,though Poland never formally surrendered.
In addition,Poland\\u0027s remaining land and air forces were evacuated to neighboring Romania and Hungary.Many of the exiles subsequently joined the recreated Polish Army in allied France,French-mandated Syria and the United Kingdom.
In the after of the September Campaign,a resistance movement was formed.Poland\\u0027s fighting forces continued to contribute to Allied military operations,and did so throughout the duration of World War ll.Germany captured the Soviet-occupied areas of Poland when it invaded the Soviet Union on June 22，1941 and lost the territory in 1944 to an advancing Red Army.Over the course of the war,Poland lost over 20%of its pre-war population under an occupation that marked the end of the Second Polish Republic.
1939年波蘭戰役，在波蘭稱作1939年保衛戰爭，在德國稱作波蘭行動，是納粹德國、蘇聯和一支小規模的斯洛伐克部隊入侵波蘭的行動，標誌著第二次世界大戰的開始。入侵開始於1939年9月1日，即蘇德互不侵犯條約被簽署了一個星期後，並在1939年10月6日因德國和蘇聯瓜分整個波蘭而結束。
格萊維茨事件隔天，德國軍隊從北、南、西三個方向入侵波蘭。當德軍進攻時，波蘭軍隊撤出他們靠近波蘭與德國邊境基地，在更東麵建立防線。9月中旬，波蘭軍在布楚拉戰役中被擊潰，德軍獲得穩固的優勢。波蘭軍隊撤向東南方，準備在預備好的羅馬尼亞橋頭堡進行長期的防禦戰，並等待預期中法國和英國的支援。
蘇聯根據《莫洛托夫-裏賓特洛甫條約》中的秘密協議，於9月17日入侵波蘇邊界。由於第二戰場的開辟，波蘭政府認定羅馬尼亞橋頭堡長期作戰的計劃已不再可行，並下令緊急撤離所有部隊至中立的羅馬尼亞。10月6日，波蘭在科克戰役戰敗後，德國和蘇聯軍隊完全控製了波蘭。雖然波蘭從未正式投降，但已標誌了德蘇兩軍在波蘭的戰鬥遂告結束。
閃擊波蘭-騎士對坦克
另外，波蘭殘存的陸軍和海軍疏散到了鄰近的羅馬尼亞和匈牙利。接下來很多流散的人加入了重新成立的波蘭軍隊，這隻軍隊與法國、法國控製下的敘利亞及英國結盟。
在九月戰役之後，一個抵製德國運動的團體成立了。在二戰期間，波蘭的軍隊一直為聯軍所指揮。1941年6月22日隨著德軍發動侵蘇戰爭，德軍攻占了波蘭的蘇占區，後在1944年被蘇聯紅軍重奪。在整個戰爭期間，波蘭失去了戰前將近20％的人口。波蘭全境被占領標誌著波蘭第二共和國的覆滅。
2.We\\u0027re Going to War—The“Four Freedoms”我們要參戰——羅斯福總統的“四大自由”
In 1941，President Roosevelt made a speech in parliament named“four freedoms”，as follows：
In the future days,which we seek to make secure,we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
Thefirst is freedom of speech and expression-everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship everywhere in the world.[1]God in his own way-everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want-which,translated into world terms,means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants-everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear-which,translated into world terms,means a world-wide reduction of armaments[2]to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor-anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium.lt is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.