Report on Medias Role in Conflict
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Running head: MEDIA’S ROLE IN CONFLICTMedia’s role in conflictName of the student:Name of the university:Author note
1MEDIA’S ROLE IN CONFLICTConflicts during World War IIThe Second World War took place in the period of 1939- 1945. From the ending monthsof 1940 till the beginning of 1941 a number of conflicts evolved which had ultimately taken theshape of the deadly war. The campaign of East Africa and the Western Desert took place in thisperiod. The issue of the campaign had emerged due to the fighting between the Italian andBritish forces across the deserts of Libya and Egypt from the stretch of Kenya to Ethiopia (Badenand Tenenboim-Weinblatt 2017). A cooperation declaration was signed in Berlin between Germany, Japan and Italy whichwas named as the Tripartite Pact. There were incidents in which the forces of Japan had capturedVietnam in order to establish their base in French Indo- China and kept on attacking China. On the other hand, Mussolini had ordered his men to put an attack on Greece whichevolved as the Greco- Italian War and the Balkans campaign. The battle of Britain also continuedalong with because the German and British forces continued their bombing raids and attacks inthe sea (Bell 2014). The United States of America intensified the amount of the continuing global conflict bycommencing lend- lease program. As per the program, they had shipped arms and other materialsof worth $50 billion to the associated countries. A dark episode started shaping up in this way.The Germans also added to the darkness by building up walled ghettos in Warsaw and otherplaces of Poland in order to collect the Jews and moving them forcefully into the enclaves(Björkdahl and Buckley-Zistel 2016). Balkans campaign
2MEDIA’S ROLE IN CONFLICTOut of all the conflicts, the Balkan campaign can be selected as the topic of discussion forthe rest of the assignment. The Balkan campaign took place as a result of the Italian attack onGreece. This incident happened in the year 1940 on 28th of October. The campaign got the namefrom the Balkan Peninsula which is a situated in the disputed area of Eastern and South EasternEurope. This specific region has Balkan Mountains which continued from the Serbian- Bulgarianborder to the Black Sea (Crampton 2014). In the beginning of 1941, Italy had started the invasion and Greece replied with a counterattack in Albania. This lit the fire of the Balkan campaign. Germany arranged for troops to sendto Romania and Bulgaria so that Italy can get the required support to attack Greece from theeastern side. At the same time, the British had also sent troops and air forces for defendingGreece (Duke, Phillips and Conover 2014). On 27th March 1941 the Yugoslav coup d’état took place in Belgrade, the Kingdom ofYugoslavia. This incident was planned and executed by a group of supporters of Western Serbnationalist which made Hitler furious and he ordered for the capture of the country. As per theorder, the attack of Yugoslavia began with the joint effort of Italy and Germany on 6th Aprilalongside the Battle of Greece. Again on 11th April, Hungary participated in the attack which made the Yugoslavs signfor a settlement. By 30th April, all the major parts of Greece were under the control of German orItaly. Again on 20th May Germany continued the conflict by invading Crete giving rise to theBattle of Crete in 1941 (Elbasani and Roy 2015). By 1st June rest of the Greek and British forceson the particular island had surrendered to Germany. Bulgaria was not a part of the attack that
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