一战后动荡的社会和不稳定的政治结构让二战成了必然,直到今日,我们仍能清晰地感受二战留下的痕迹。在1940年5月到1941年12月这短短的时间里,全世界主要强国的领导人们所作出的一系列命运攸关的抉择,基本上确定了这场人类历史上最可怕的战争的未来走向。这些决策把欧亚大陆上的两场互相分隔的战争,转变成一场真正全球化的冲突。尽管在1941年底,战争仍还有三年多的进程,但 The turbulent social and unstable political structure after World War I made World War II inevitable. Until today, we can still clearly feel the traces left by World War II. In a short period of time between May 1940 and December 1941, the series of fateful choices made by the leaders of the world’s major powers basically set the future for this most horrible war in human history Going. These decisions turn the two separate war lines in Eurasia into a truly global one. Although the war still lasted more than three years by the end of 1941,