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Habits Of Highly Effective : Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1

1. Proactive

          One of the human habit of doing activities are able to do things that in his own abilities, and therefore the activity of a person is necessary to work hard to achieve something without feeling that everything is not possible for us to accomplish. Proactive divided into 3 types, namely nature, nurture, and choice.

2. Think with the end in mind
           Although Habit 2 applies to many circumstances and a different level of life, most basic application of "Referring to the Final Destination" is to begin today with shadows, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as the frame of reference or the criterion on which to test all something. Every part of your life-behavior today, tomorrow's behavior, next week's behavior, next month behaviors can be tested in the overall context of what is really most important to you. By seeking the end point is still clear in your mind, you can be sure that whatever you are doing on a particular day does not violate the criteria that you define as the most important, and that every day of your life to support the vision you have of your entire life in a meaningful way. Referring to the final destination means starting with a clear understanding of your destination. This means knowing where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so you know that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

3. First Thing First
           An action within is customary to find the best for what we get. Arguably the first to be the best, in terms of things like always menajdi first or put others down to look into that first. But the first of the first that is able to work or do the real thing without being dropped or were dropped only to achieve a success.

4. Win
             Occasionally in us should feel proud for the success of our efforts to make it happen, we achieve the victory that is wrong habits of ourselves that we can get after what we do well and trying his best. Not a victory that justifies any means just for fun, because the victory was not lost for the win, but a win win for losing to win.

5. Seek First To Understand then to be Understand
          Habits ourselves in berosialisasi in any environment in which we live as well as just the friends, ourselves should be trying to understand the feelings of our friends without them having to always understand ourselves. We need to know the current position we have megerti them and they understand our position, without belonging ego very hard on each one of us so that we can always understand the side of ourselves to our friends and we did the opposite way.

6. Synergy
            The process of mutual support between the two parties can produce positive habits so that progress can be achieved. From word how we interpret other people can trust each other and strive to achieve a goal that means in ourselves without each other to prioritize the best, but work together for the mutual benefit of positive things.

7. Sharpen the Saw
            Adjusting to the right, that we are in the habit of doing something with great care so that it is something that can make ourselves in a proper state for the actions and ways of thinking that are not in a hurry to put our position is the most appropriate of these actions.

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Ways Of Achieving Our Wishes : Bahasa Inggris Bisnis 1

Five Matter in way of reaching our goal to reached and granted by God

1. Pray
         In this life we ​​are created as human beings are always grateful for what it is relentless to the Almighty God with a religion or belief that we have. Once we have held fast to the belief that we have this, we can certainly say it through worship and pray. In worship performed 5 times a day, accompanied by the prayer that is what we want or we have achieved is not separated from a sincere and meaningful requests directly to God, because with a prayer that we express clearly that we want or we can accomplish for God hear our sincerity in praying.

2. Confidence (Sure)
        After we prayed earnestly to God, we must dare to believe in ourselves that what we ask and what we want we must believe that God will always hear our prayers for we believe that with prayer we have been teaching God no ka tone vain. Because the core of our faith is to believe that throughout this earth God has the best plan for us as long as we always worship and pray.

3. Visualization (Look and Feel)
        When worship and prayer have full confidence in ourselves until now, that we can see is something more real to us and we can feel with our inner eyes that after what we want or we achieve with sinful ' a proven God sees that we are trying in earnest on what date. Therefore pray with us and were sure that we could be able to feel it gradually.

4. Feel the happiness or enjoyment
         If prayed in worship with full confident before, then God hears prayers and see the effort that we do. Surely God did not let our efforts for granted, will remain God always helps and prayer forms that create a reality that we experience. As long as it is achieved, and we can see and feel it, surely we as humans feel the happiness that was so very unexpected because we can conclude that in this world nothing is impossible as long as we pray we achieve fully confident and do your best for us it will be happy in this life.

5. Create Facility
         In the form of prayer that we want or do we accomplish and God has given it to us. Of course we can better utilize the positive direction for what God has given to create a means widespread. In creating the tool we make is a mere idea or value that God has given because it is good we can create something new from our previous request to God for others who simply we do for charity

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STRONG CHARACTER : BAHASA INGGRIS BISNIS 1



1. Show Compassion

              Dalam setiap insan manusia yang dilahirkan didunia ini tentu terlahir dengan penuh rasa kasih sayang yang telah ditanamkan oleh Orang Tua semenjak dini dan diajarkan bagaimana cara saling mengasihi terhadap satu sama lain. Oleh karena itu rasa kasih sayang yang kita miliki luapkanlah terhadap orang lain juga dengan cara mengasihi seperti kita merasakan penderitaan orang lain yang tidak cukup beruntung nasibnya diluar sana. Karena pada akhirnya sikap kita yang saling menyayangi memungkinkan kita menjadi manusia yang lebih mempunyai hati nurani dimana letak kesedihan dan penderitaan orang lain kita dapat memberikan rasa empati kita dengan rasa ikhlas dan dapat menghargai satu sama lain.

2. Are Honest and Fair

  • Secara sederhana, kejujuran berarti jujur ​​dengan diri kita sendiri dan dengan orang lain. Ini berarti cukup peduli tentang orang lain tidak menyesatkan mereka untuk keuntungan pribadi. Ini berarti menghadap ke kesalahan kita, bahkan ketika kita harus mengakui mereka kepada orang lain atau ketika mereka mungkin mendapatkan kita ke dalam kesulitan.
  • Adil, jika terbiasa menerapkan sifat jujur maka keadilan lah yang setara dengan kejujuran, karena bagaimanapun jika bertindak adil untuk kepentingan bersama itu menjadikan diri kita bersih dari suatu penyakit ketidakadilan. Sifat adil tersebut mulai terbiasa saat kita bisa membagi waktu untuk keadaan yang terbagi rata dalam kehidupan kita sendiri secara bersih dan bijaksana dalam memiih.
3. Display Self-Discipline in Setting and Meeting Goals
             Menunjukkan kedisiplinan diri dalam mencapai suatu tujuan, sering kali kita melakukan aktifitas terkadang tanpa memikirkan sikap yang membuat diri kita menjadi displin karena sudah banyak larangan atau peraturan-peraturan yang kita langgar, contohnya saja dalam berkendaraan yang tak taat menerapkan peraturan lalu lintas demi melancarkan kegiatannya yang tak lain adalah keterlambatan dalam perjalanan oleh karena itu tujuannya ialah melanggar peraturan lalu lintas. Karena hal displin untuk mencapai tujuan itu mulai dibiasakan dari hal yang paling mudah hingga tersulit sekalipun, sehingga sifat displin itu dapat menyesuaikan kita untuk membentuk karakter kita yang lebih baik dan tidak merugikan banyak orang lain baik itu dari perilaku, tingkat emosi maupun kesabaran yang lebih banyak diujikan dalam diri kita.

4. Make Good Judgments
               Membuat penilaian yang baik, selama menerima suatu kesan terhadap orang lain tentu kita dapat membuat penilaian yang baik dan buruk terhadap orang tersebut, misalnya saja orang itu menjadi partner dalam bekerja sesuai dengan kerjasama yang kompak dan mengetahui aturan yang baik tentu kita berpikiran positif bahwa orang tersbut kita nilai adalah partner yang baik dalam pekerjaan. Karena dengan banyaknya perbedaan penilaian yang baik itu sulit untuk benar-benar kita nilai selama kita mengetahui mana baik dan buruknya suatu hal yang baik untuk diri kita sendiri.

5. Show Respect to Others
         Menunjukkan kepedulian atau rasa hormat kepada orang lain, sungguh alangkah indahnya jika penerapan rasa peduli dan rasa hormat yang ditanamkan didalam diri kita dapat ditunjukkan kepada orang lain disekitar kita yang membutuhkannya, contohnya saja banyak pengemis atau panti asuhan yang tak lain mengharapkan rasa peduli dari kita yang sebagian beruntung dibandingkan mereka, oleh karena itu dengan kita peduli terhadap mereka dengan menggunakan perasaan dan hati kita maka sedikitnya kita bisa merasakan ketidakberuntungan mereka dibandingkan diri kita.

6. Show courage in Standing up for Beliefs
           Keberanian adalah kemampuan untuk mengatasi rasa takut untuk melakukan apa yang benar, bahkan jika itu sulit atau berisiko. Keberanian dapat berarti menghadapi bahaya fisik, tetapi juga bisa berarti berdiri untuk keyakinan dan membuat keputusan sulit berdasarkan bukti dan bukan pada apa adalah hal yang mudah atau populer yang dapat dilakukan. Ini berarti menjadi tidak ceroboh atau pengecut, tetapi menghadap ke atas dengan tugas dan tanggung jawab kita. Menunjukkan keberanian dalam berdiri untuk keyakinan, keberanian dalam kita untuk mengambil suatu langkah demi keyakinan yang kita miliki ialah hal yang paling rumit untuk kita lakukan sekalipun itu menyangkut pada fisik kita, karena demi keyakinan yang penuh kita dapat mengambil keputusan dengan keberanian tanpa ada kata ceroboh yang mengusik keyakinan kita. Karena suatu tindakan dengan keyakinan adalah membuat kita yakin bahwa langkah yang buat berpegang teguh pada keyakinan itu sendiri dan berani mempertanggung jawabkannya untuk suatu tujuan tersebut.

7. Have a Strong Sense of Responsibilty
             Mempunyai rasa tanggung jawab yang kuat, tentu apa yang kita buat dan kita lakukan terhadap diri kita maupun orang lain adalah sebuah tanggung jawab penuh selama kita melakukan aktifitas pada lingkungan sekitar kita. Misalnya saja sebagai murid pelajar ataupun mahasiswa tentu memiliki tanggung jawab yang besar terhadap orang tuanya dimana untuk menyelesaikan sekolahnya. Oleh karena itu tanggung jawab yang kita punya menjadikan kita tau bagaimana dalam bertindak. Orang yang bertanggung jawab tidak membuat alasan untuk tindakan mereka atau menyalahkan orang lain bila ada yang salah. Mereka berpikir hal-hal melalui dan menggunakan penilaian yang baik sebelum mereka mengambil tindakan. Mereka berperilaku dengan cara yang mendorong orang lain untuk mempercayai mereka.

8. Concerned for their Community
         Warga Negara yang baik serta perduli untuk komunitas mereka, banyak sekali dalam dunia ini penduduk atau komunitas yang kita harus wajib mengetahui untuk dapat sedikit perduli terhadap mereka, contohnya saja salah satu tempat atau provinsi lain di Negara Indonesia ini yang membutuhkan rasa perduli kita untuk dapat membantunya dengan rasa yang tulus dari kita. Karena sebagian besar yang kita punya mereka berhak merasakan apa yang kita punya baik ilmu, materi, maupun bahan pokok lainnya yang sebagaimana mestinya kita sedikit dapat berbagi itu semua kepada mereka.

9. Maintain Self-Respect
           Menjaga kehormatan pada diri sendiri, dalam manusia terdapat suatu kekayaan yang paling berharga dalam kehidupannya yang tak lain ialah kehormatan baik menjaga nama baik, tingkah laku, maupun keyakinan. Kehormatan yang kita miliki tentu harus bertentangan dengan sikap yang tidak baik dari diri kita sendiri, karena jika kehormatan kita sendiri sangat leluasa dipergunakan untuk kebodohan semata maka hal tak baik bisa datang kedalam diri kita sendiri. Oleh karena itu rasa hormat baik itu kita lakukan terhadap orang lain ataupun sebaliknya menjadikan diri kita dihormati oleh orang lain dan sikap menjaga kehormatan ialah hal paling mulia harus kita jaga baik-baik tanpa terkecuali jika kita sengaja merusaknya.



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Steve Jobs Profile

Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar.

In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and, one year later, the Macintosh. By introducing the LaserWriter he enabled a revolution called desktop publishing.
After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets. In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm, which was spun off as Pixar. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006, making Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder at seven percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors.
After difficulties developing a new Mac operating system, Apple purchased NeXT in 1996 in order to use NeXTSTEP as the basis for what became Mac OS X. As part of the deal Jobs was named Apple advisor. As Apple floundered, Jobs took control of the company and was named "interim CEO" in 1997, or as he jokingly referred to it, "iCEO". Under his leadership, Apple was saved from near bankruptcy, and became profitable by 1998. Over the next decade, Jobs oversaw the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad, and on the services side, the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. The success of these products and services, providing several years of stable financial returns, propelled Apple to become the world's most valuable publicly traded company in 2011. The reinvigoration of the company is regarded by many commentators as one of the greatest turnarounds in business history.
In 2003, Jobs was diagnosed with a pancreas neuroendocrine tumor. Though it was initially treated, he reported a hormone imbalance, underwent a liver transplant in 2009, and appeared progressively thinner as his health declined. On medical leave for most of 2011, Jobs resigned as Apple CEO in August that year and was elected Chairman of the Board. He died of respiratory arrest related to his metastatic tumor on October 5, 2011.

Jobs has received a number of honors and public recognition for his influence in the technology and music industries. He has widely been referred to as "legendary", a "futurist" or simply "visionary", and has been described as the "Father of the Digital Revolution", a "master of innovation", and a "design perfectionist".
Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco on February 24, 1955 to two university students, Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian-born Abdulfattah "John" Jandali (Arabic: عبدالفتاح جندلي‎), who were both unmarried at the time. Jandali, who was teaching in Wisconsin when Steve was born in 1955, said he had no choice but to put the baby up for adoption because his girlfriend's family objected to their relationship.
The baby was adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986), an Armenian-American whose maiden name was Hagopian. According to Steve Jobs's commencement address at Stanford, Schieble wanted Jobs to be adopted only by a college-graduate couple. Schieble learned that Clara Jobs didn't graduate from college and Paul Jobs only attended high school, but signed final adoption papers after they promised her that the child would definitely be encouraged and supported to attend college. Later, when asked about his "adoptive parents," Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." He stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%." Unknown to him, his biological parents would subsequently marry (December 1955), have a second child Mona Simpson in 1957, and divorce in 1962.
The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was five years old. The parents later adopted a daughter, Patti. Paul was a machinist for a company that made lasers, and taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. The father showed Steve how to work on electronics in the family garage, demonstrating to his son how to take apart and rebuild electronics such as radios and televisions. As a result, Steve became interested in and developed a hobby of technical tinkering.
Clara was an accountant who taught him to read before he went to school. Clara Jobs had been a payroll clerk for Varian Associates, one of the first high-tech firms in what became known as Silicon Valley.
Jobs's youth was riddled with frustrations over formal schooling. At Monta Loma Elementary school in Mountain View, he was a prankster whose fourth-grade teacher needed to bribe him to study. Jobs tested so well, however, that administrators wanted to skip him ahead to high school—a proposal his parents declined.
Jobs then attended Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. At Homestead, Jobs became friends with Bill Fernandez, a neighbor who shared the same interests in electronics. Fernandez introduced Jobs to another, older computer whiz kid, Stephen Wozniak (also known as "Woz"). In 1969 Woz started building a little computer board with Fernandez that they named “The Cream Soda Computer”, which they showed to Jobs; he seemed really interested. Jobs frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California, and was later hired there, working with Wozniak as a summer employee.
Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Reed was an expensive college which Paul and Clara could ill afford. They were spending much of their life savings on their son’s higher education. Jobs dropped out of college after six months and spent the next 18 months dropping in on creative classes, including a course on calligraphy. He continued auditing classes at Reed while sleeping on the floor in friends' dorm rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."

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Bill Gates Profile

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, computer programmer and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company he co-founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third; in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the second wealthiest person.During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with 6.4 percent of the common stock.He has also authored or co-authored several books.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Gates has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts.In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.
Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work, and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect, and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates's last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.

Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates. His parents are of English, German, and Scots-Irish descent.His father was a prominent lawyer, and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way. Gates's maternal grandfather was J. W. Maxwell, a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi (Kristianne), and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family, but was known as William Gates III or "Trey" because his father had the "II" suffix. Early on in his life, Gates's parents had a law career in mind for him. When Gates was young, his family regularly attended a Congregational church.

At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school.When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, "There was just something neat about the machine." After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, he and other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.
At the end of the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via Teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when the company went out of business. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc. hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in COBOL, providing them computer time and royalties. After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students. He later stated that "it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success."At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor.In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Gates graduated from Lakeside School in 1973. He scored 1590 out of 1600 on the SAT and enrolled at Harvard College in the autumn of 1973. While at Harvard, he met Steve Ballmer, who later succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft.
The Poker Room in Currier House at Harvard University, in which Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer formed Microsoft

In his sophomore year, Gates devised an algorithm for pancake sorting as a solution to one of a series of unsolved problems presented in a combinatorics class by Harry Lewis, one of his professors. Gates's solution held the record as the fastest version for over thirty years; its successor is faster by only one percent. His solution was later formalized in a published paper in collaboration with Harvard computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.
Gates did not have a definite study plan while a student at Harvard and spent a lot of time using the school's computers. Gates remained in contact with Paul Allen, and he joined him at Honeywell during the summer of 1974.The following year saw the release of the MITS Altair 8800 based on the Intel 8080 CPU, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company.He had talked this decision over with his parents, who were supportive of him after seeing how much Gates wanted to start a company.

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World War I History

World War I (WWI) was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. It was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until the start of World War II in 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter. It involved all the world's great powers, which were assembled in two opposing alliances: the Allies (based on the Triple Entente of the United Kingdom, France and Russia) and the Central Powers (originally centred around the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; but, as Austria–Hungary had taken the offensive against the agreement, Italy did not enter into the war). These alliances both reorganised (Italy fought for the Allies), and expanded as more nations entered the war. Ultimately more than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. More than 9 million combatants were killed, largely because of enormous increases in lethality of weapons, thanks to new technology, without corresponding improvements in protection or mobility. It was the sixth-deadliest conflict in world history, subsequently paving the way for various political changes such as revolutions in the nations involved.
Long-term causes of the war included the imperialistic foreign policies of the great powers of Europe, including the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire, the British Empire, the French Republic, and Italy. The assassination on 28 June 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, by a Yugoslav nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina was the proximate trigger of the war. It resulted in a Habsburg ultimatum against the Kingdom of Serbia. Several alliances formed over the previous decades were invoked, so within weeks the major powers were at war; via their colonies, the conflict soon spread around the world.

On 28 July, the conflict opened with the Austro-Hungarian invasion of Serbia, followed by the German invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg and France; and a Russian attack against Germany. After the German march on Paris was brought to a halt, the Western Front settled into a static battle of attrition with a trench line that changed little until 1917. In the East, the Russian army successfully fought against the Austro-Hungarian forces but was forced back from East Prussia and Poland by the German army. Additional fronts opened after the Ottoman Empire joined the war in 1914, Italy and Bulgaria in 1915 and Romania in 1916. The Russian Empire collapsed in March 1917, and Russia left the war after the October Revolution later that year. After a 1918 German offensive along the western front, United States forces entered the trenches and the Allies drove back the German armies in a series of successful offensives. Germany, which had its own trouble with revolutionaries at this point, agreed to a cease-fire on 11 November 1918, later known as Armistice Day. The war had ended in victory for the Allies.

Events on the home fronts were as tumultuous as on the battle fronts, as the participants tried to mobilize their manpower and economic resources to fight a total war. By the end of the war, four major imperial powers — the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires — ceased to exist. The successor states of the former two lost a great amount of territory, while the latter two were dismantled entirely. The map of central Europe was redrawn into several smaller states. The League of Nations was formed in the hope of preventing another such conflict. The European nationalism spawned by the war and the breakup of empires, the repercussions of Germany's defeat and problems with the Treaty of Versailles are agreed to be factors contributing to World War II.


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World War II History

World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2), was a global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved a vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million people serving in military units. In a state of "total war", the major participants placed their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it resulted in 50 million to over 70 million fatalities. These deaths make the war the deadliest conflict in human history.
Although Japan was already at war with China in 1937, the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and subsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Commonwealth. Germany set out to establish a large empire in Europe. From late 1939 to early 1941, in a series of campaigns and treaties, Germany conquered or subdued much of continental Europe; amid Nazi-Soviet agreements, the nominally neutral Soviet Union fully or partially invaded, occupied and annexed territories of its six European neighbours, including Poland. Britain and the Commonwealth remained the only major force continuing the fight against the Axis, with battles taking place in North Africa as well as the long-running Battle of the Atlantic. In June 1941, the European Axis launched an invasion of the Soviet Union, giving a start to the largest land theatre of war in history, which tied down the major part of the Axis' military forces. In December 1941, Japan, which aimed to dominate Asia, joined the Axis, attacked the United States and European possessions in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the West Pacific.

The Axis advance was stopped in 1942, after Japan lost a series of naval battles and European Axis troops were defeated in North Africa and, decisively, at Stalingrad. In 1943, with a series of German defeats in Eastern Europe, the Allied invasion of Fascist Italy, and American victories in the Pacific, the Axis lost the initiative and undertook strategic retreat on all fronts. In 1944, the Western Allies invaded France, while the Soviet Union regained all of its territorial losses and invaded Germany and its allies. The war in Europe ended with the capture of Berlin by Soviet and Polish troops and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945. During 1944 and 1945 the United States defeated the Japanese Navy and captured key West Pacific islands, dropping atomic bombs on the country as the invasion of the Japanese Archipelago ("Home Islands") became imminent. The war in Asia ended on 15 August 1945 when Japan agreed to surrender.

The total victory of the Allies over the Axis in 1945 ended the conflict. World War II altered the political alignment and social structure of the world. The United Nations (UN) was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts. The great powers that were the victors of the war—the United States, Soviet Union, China, Britain, and France—became the permanent members of the UN's Security Council. The Soviet Union and the United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for the next 46 years. Meanwhile, the influence of European great powers started to decline, while the decolonisation of Asia and Africa began. Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economic recovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to stabilise postwar relations.

The start of the war is generally held to be 1 September 1939, beginning with the German invasion of Poland; Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. Other dates for the beginning of war include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937.
Others follow British historian A. J. P. Taylor, who held that the Sino-Japanese War and war in Europe and its colonies occurred simultaneously and the two wars merged in 1941. This article uses the conventional dating. Other starting dates sometimes used for World War II include the Italian invasion of Abyssinia on 3 October 1935.
The exact date of the war's end is also not universally agreed upon. It has been suggested that the war ended at the armistice of 14 August 1945 (V-J Day), rather than the formal surrender of Japan (2 September 1945); in some European histories, it ended on V-E Day (8 May 1945). However, the Treaty of Peace with Japan was not signed until 1951,and that with Germany not until 1990.

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