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Bus laying inside huge bomb crater in a London street
after heavy German air raid bombing attacks during the Battle
of Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: September 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=73f492f6445593a2
Wreckage of bus leaning into huge crater in front of bombed
out buildings,
a result of German aerial blitz attacks during the Battle of
Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
Winston Churchill (L)
standing in ruins of House of Commons
debating room after German blitz air raid.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: May 1941
Life Images
Standing up gloriously out of the flames and
smoke of surrounding buildings,
St. Paul's Cathedral is pictured during the
great fire raid of
Sunday December 29th. 1940.
306-NT-3173V.
Pictures of World War II
US National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-85.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos
Londoners sleeping underground in subway
for protection during German bombing raids.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=6f5b56b6dd847dd0
The Second World War:
six years that changed
Britain for ever
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/23/second-world-war-mccrum
Britain after the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/second-world-war-britain-churchill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/churchill-europe-second-world-war
WWII
casualties
Civilian and Military Deaths in the Second
World War
National Death Tolls for the Second World War
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/statistics.htm
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/ww2stats.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2854730
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/navy-casualties/
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/ww2/army-casualties/
VE Day / Victory in Europe Day
May 8, 1945
http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945.html
The Guardian
facsimile p. 13
9.5.2005
The Daily Mirror
8 May, 1945
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/frames.asp?
http%3A//www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
MOLsite/londonsvoices/veday/mainmenu.asp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/veday_germany_01.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/8/newsid_3580000/3580163.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/ve-day-celebrations-second-world-war
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=
ARCHIVE-The_Times-1945-05-08-06-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1945-05-08-06
http://www.thehistorychannel.co.uk/site/this_day_in_history/this_day_May_8.php
http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945.html
http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_8th_1945_2.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/veday/0,,1473337,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/0,14058,1085469,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/veday
http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,1476330,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/queenmother/article/0,2763,181089,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-22106,00.html
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/
frames.asp?http%3A//www.museumoflondon.org.uk/MOLsite/londonsvoices/veday/
Capitulation on Montgomery's
front May 8, 1945
German forces in North-west
Germany, Holland, and Denmark surrender to the 21st Army Group
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1224327,00.html
Paul Joseph Goebbels
October 29, 1897 - May 1, 1945
http://www.leninimports.com/daily_mail_may_3rd_1945.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/goebbels-speaks.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/genocide/eichmann_03.shtml
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goebmain.htm
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/goeb6.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERgoebbels.htm
Bombing
of Dresden,
led by Royal Air Force
and followed by the United States Army Air
Force February 13-15, 1945
Arthur 'Bomber' Harris
1892-1984
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4257253.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14/newsid_3549000/3549905.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/harris_arthur_bomber.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/apr/19/iraq.arts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/allied-bombing-germany-dresden
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/23/germany.secondworldwar
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1411838,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1340160,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1142632,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1160568,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1977920,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1414577,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2719939.stm
V2 / V1 rockets
The first V2s hit Paris,
Antwerp
and Chiswick, in west
London, in early September 1944.
Just under 3,000 civilians
were killed by V2s in
southern England (and more than 6,000 by V1s)
before the last V2 hit
Orpington, in London, on 27 March 1945.
Rescue workers helping pull victim from
ruins of a building hit by a V2 rocket during WWII.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: July 1944
Life Images
American soldier examining a V2 rocket under
construction
in an underground assembly plant.
Location: Nordhausen, Germany
Date taken: April 29, 1945
Life Images
Buildings showing extensive damage from
German V1 flying bomb attacks.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: July 1944
Photographer: Ralph Morse
Life Images
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/1944/sep/08/mainsection.fromthearchive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/10/space-exploration-secondworldwar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/19/secondworldwar
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/63/a4901663.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2713240.shtml
Holland
Battle of Arnhem Operation Market
Garden 17-25/26 September 1944
US Airborne
Divisions take objectives in Holland to open a corridor for the advancing
British Army.
British 1st
Airborne 10 Division lands at Arnhem but meets strong resistance.
The Allies fail
to gain a bridgehead across the lower River Rhine
Airborne troops
retreat from Arnhem 26 September 1944
http://london.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/4/dday/pdfs/DDayAftermath.pdf
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/26/newsid_3523000/3523972.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_arnhem_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch_ani_arnhem.shtml
http://london.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/4/dday/pdfs/DDayAftermath.pdf
Bombing of
Hamburg 1943
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2034998,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,,2025938,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/hamburg-bombing-raid-anglo-american
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/23/germany.secondworldwar
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/22/worlddispatch.germany
Hitler's secret
weapons 1945
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1808269,00.html
D-Day Operation Overlord
6 June 1944
Timeline, stories,
interactive guide
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6438329.ece
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?
articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1944-06-07-04-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1944-06-07-04
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/dday_audio.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/dday_audio.shtml
http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/2009/06/video-how-the-times-covered-dday.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/tol_archive/article850678.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/D_Day/
http://www.atlas-historique.net/1914-1945/cartes/Overlord.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-final-battle-remembering-ddays-veterans-841378.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128358,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/0,14058,1085469,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1232546,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1183628,00.html
http://www.war-experience.org/
http://www.iwm.org.uk/
http://www.iwm.org.uk/dday/index.htm
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-unity.html
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/battles/dday/
Dambusters raid 1943
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,957618,00.html
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/item.asp?item_id=48
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/17/newsid_3623000/3623223.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/3036193.stm
Dancing Through the War
How the Royal Ballet danced
on as the bombs rained down
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2007/feb/15/dance
The Arctic convoys - the Second World War mission
to supply the Russians for their battle on the Eastern Front
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2004/apr/11/leaders.secondworldwar
The Beveridge "Plan for Social Security"
1942
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/15/ten-of-the-best-political-documents
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1656100,00.html
Egypt
Second Battle of El Alamein /
العلمين
23 October-4 November 1942
Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery
1887-1976
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_el_alamein_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/montgomery_bernard.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1057394.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/poet-keith-douglas-el-alamein-ww2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/erwin-rommel-papers-el-alamein-ww2
Burma Campaign
1941-1945
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/burma_campaign_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/launch_ani_burma_campaign.shtml
Japan declares war on United
States and Britain December 8, 1941
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127505,00.html
Britain declares
war on Finland, Hungary and Romania on 5 December 1941,
following the
signing of the Tri-partite Pact and Finland's alliance with Germany
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1138501.shtml
WW2
United Kingdom 1941
During gas invasion test during WWII,
all civilians and wardens wear gas masks (respirators).
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: 1941
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e25cfaaf2a26bd0b
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127462,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127470,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127512,00.html
Pact with
America:
Churchill's
speech after the Atlantic conference
24 August 1941
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/atlantic-conference-churchill-roosevelt-alliance
Rudolf Hess
(1894-1987), Hitler's deputy, escapes to Britain
7 May 1941
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/17/newsid_2496000/2496643.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/mar/16/historybooks.features
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/83/a4408283.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/1326958.stm
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127470,00.html
Rationing
during the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2010/mar/04/imperial-war-museum-rationing-food
http://food.iwm.org.uk/?page_id=70
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/rationing-second-world-war1
Destruction of
Coventry / 'Coventration'
14 November 1940
Prime Minister Winston Churchill walks . . .
through the ruins of Coventry Cathedral . . . , 1942.
Photograph. Prints and Photographs
Division
(106)
LC-USZ62-16191 Digital ID# cph 3a18421
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/images/wc0106-3a18421r.jpg
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-hour.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1646990,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/history/coventry_blitz/
Battle of Britain
Winston Churchill's speech
Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so
few August 20, 1940
World War II poster
"Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Lowe & Brydon Printers, Ltd".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/battle-of-britain/7851021/Battle-of-Britain-survivors-It-was-shoot-or-be-shot.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/7882425/Battle-of-Britain-veterans-stories.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/world-war-2/battle-of-britain/7881879/Battle-of-Britain-our-finest-hour.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1940/aug/21/secondworldwar.germany
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_of_britain_01.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2000/battle_of_britain/default.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/15/newsid_3521000/3521611.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c55221/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4257084.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/battle-of-britain
Coast of Algeria
Mers-el-Kébir 3-6 July 1940
British warships destroy the
French fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria,
to prevent Germany seizing it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/index.shtml?day=03&month=07
Players:
Force H, British Admiral Somerville
and Cunningham
and French Admirals Darlan and
Gensoul.
Outcome:
Over 1,000 lives lost,
the French fleet immobilised,
Britain's determination to succeed
in the Mediterranean asserted.
Britain didn't waste any time taking
action
after the French Vichy government
signed a treaty with the Germans on 25 June 1940.
The French had a powerful fleet
which was a threat to British naval
supremacy in the Mediterranean.
Only eight days after the treaty was
signed, on 3 July,
the British seized all French ships
in British ports.
Then, under the command of Admiral
Somerville,
Force H was dispatched to deal with
the French in North Africa.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144973.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144973.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/index.shtml?day=03&month=07
The Battle of Britain / The Blitz
Evacuation / Operation Pied Piper
September 1939
The Home Front
Children being evacuated from the city
during the ongoing German bombing blitz, aka the Battle of
Britain.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
Children being evacuated from the city
during the ongoing German bombing blitz, aka the Battle of
Britain.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: Hans Wild
Life Images
The Home Front in Photographs
Sutton Publishing, £19.99
The Guardian p. 10
30.10.2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/29/blitz-london-crime-flourish-blackout
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/31/second-world-war-blitz-survivor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/britainatwarreadersmemories/4512474/Britain-at-War-evacuees-1939.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1162/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/97/a2296497.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/20/a4027420.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/40/a2286740.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8229175.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7921.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7925.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7922.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7939.shtml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Dunkirk_/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/The_Blitz/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Evacuation_of_children__WWII/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/4/newsid_3500000/3500865.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/30/unnamed-woman-second-world-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/aug/08/family-life
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/battle-of-britain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/blitz-second-world-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2171148,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1887666,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1787239,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1785166,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1770013,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1305124,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1298985,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,128255,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127361,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127366,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127406,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127412,00.html
Formation of the Special Operations Executive
(SOE) July 1940
http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/c-d/cross.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/soe_01.shtml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/SOE/
We shall fight on the beaches
Winston Churchill's speech was delivered to
House of Commons on June 4 1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/apr/20/greatspeeches3
France
Dunkerque / Dunkirk Operation Dynamo
evacuation of around 350,000 British, French
and Belgian troops from Dunkirk 26
May - 4 June 1940
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/7771885/
Dunkirk-evacuation-Operation-Dynamo-in-pictures.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/7771919/
Dunkirk-evacuation-anniversary-second-world-war-veterans-reenact-Operation-Dynamo.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7139981.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/27/operation-dynamo-dunkirk-little-ships
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/may/27/operation-dynamo-70th-anniversary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/may/27/british-pathe-dunkirk-evacuation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ff2_dunkirk.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/jb-priestley-dunkirk-second-world-war
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127406,00.html
Franco-German
Armistice 22 June 1940
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/frgearm.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005429
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
Général Charles de Gaulle
Appel du 18 juin 1940
Speeches delivered by Charles de Gaulle
and broadcast by the BBC on June 18, 19 and 22
1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/greatspeeches/degaulle/0,,2060110,00.html
http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/dossier/18juin/temoignages/appel.htm
http://degaulle.ina.fr/Html/PrincipaleAccueil.php
The Fall of France
May-June 1940
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/fall_france_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/45/a2598645.shtml
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005429
Winston Churchill
1874-1965
Prime Minister 1940-1945 and 1951-1955
Churchill speaking at the Albert Hall in
London, 1944,
at an American Thanksgiving Celebration
The Churchill Centre
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/Churchill%20and%20Lincoln%20photo-landscape.jpg
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1050
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=2
Winston Churchill.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1939
Life Images
http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page134.asp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/winston-churchill
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=389
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRchurchill.htm
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1953/churchill-bio.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/churchill_winston.shtml
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-newhome.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2002/nov/28/features11.g21
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/churchill-europe-second-world-war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/19/display-warrooms-london
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/atlantic-conference-churchill-roosevelt-alliance
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/19/display-warrooms-london
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/14/churchill-bunker-richard-holmes-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/apr/20/greatspeeches3
Chamberlain
resigns
Churchill forms a government
May 10, 1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1772298,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/10/newsid_3497000/3497115.stm
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page134.asp
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/page135.asp
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWappeasement.htm
WW2
1939-1945
The Holocaust, The Blitz, The
Evacuation, Dig for Victory campaign,
King George V, Chamberlain, Munich,
Churchill, Picture Post, ligne
Maginot, UK wartime
torture camp,
war
posters, Japan, The Western Prince,
Home Guard
Huge area of debris in London
after heavy German air raid bombing attacks
during the Battle of Britain.
Location: London, United Kingdom
Date taken: September 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=e026a8118435f285
INF 13/281 (10)
WWII poster:
Firebomb Fritz campaign: Britain Shall Not Burn
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ww2/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/holocaust_overview_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/cen_ww_two.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/england/ear20_wwtwo.shtml
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/imagelibrary/ww2/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/britainatwar/5983711/Second-World-War-posters.html
http://www.war-experience.org/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/war_adverts_gallery.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/blitz_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/evacuees_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwtwo/churchill_audio.shtml
http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jpicturepost.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MONgeorgeVI.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdig.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/flower_shows/hampton_court_2005/hcgrowyourown_index.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1640957,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1640942,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1127783,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/chamberlain_arthur_neville.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/cen_munich.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1561556,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,127505,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128341,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/fromthearchive/0,15744,1398350,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1670277,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,,1770013,00.html
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/coldwar/G1/cs3/default.htm
http://www.parliament.uk/about/images/historical/1940homeguard.cfm
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_publications_and_archives/
parliamentary_archives/archives___d_day.cfm
http://www.parliament.uk/about/images/historical/1941bombed.cfm
Viscount Halifax
The Foreign Secretary speaks after two months of war
Seen
by many as one of the architects of appeasement prior to the declaration of
hostilities,
Viscount Halifax here speaks to the nation
on
the purposes of the war and the likelihood of victory for the Allies.
During his lengthy, considered speech,
he
notes that the British 'right to grumble'
is a
mark of freedom compared with the situation in Nazi Germany,
where
complaining can lead to a concentration camp.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7933.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7933.shtml
HM Queen Elizabeth Calls on Women 11
November 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7930.shtml
Britain and France declare war on Germany
September 3, 1939
http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.24027
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/special_report/1999/08/99/world_war_11/default.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Britain_declares_war_on_Germany/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/3/newsid_3493000/3493279.stm
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128338,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,,128338,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1296790,00.html
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1930-1939/Story/0,6051,102802,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1034829,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1034842,00.html
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot31/snapshot31.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7970.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7957.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7909.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7918.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7917.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7916.shtml
The SS Athenia, en
route from Glasgow to Montreal,
became the first
victim of the Battle of the Atlantic
when she was
torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat 3
September 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7924.shtml
Conscientious
objectors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/07/british-conscientious-objectors-second-world-war
Final steps to the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/second-world-war-prelude
Germany invades Poland
September 1, 1939
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/1/newsid_3506000/3506335.stm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005070
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005300
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/chamberlain.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7913.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7914.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7940.shtml
The German army invade the
rest of Czechoslovakia 15 March 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7911.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/higher/history/roadwar/munich_rev2.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/learning/learningzone/showrecord?Id=3872
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/endofappeasementrev1.shtml
Approach of war / Munich
Agreement /
Appeasement
1938 1939
The
Anglo-German agreement
is
signed by Hitler and Chamberlain at Munich September 30, 1938
Prime minister Neville Chamberlain
returns to Britain
from Germany
announcing that he has secured 'peace for our time'
September 30 1938
Neville Chamberlain
1938
Life Images
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (front row, second
right)
walks past a Nazi honour guard on the way to a meeting with Adolf Hitler on
September 28, 1938
Picture: Hugo Jaeger./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Unseen photographs reveal the private life of Adolf Hitler
The Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/5452458/
Unseen-photographs-reveal-the-private-life-of-Adolf-Hitler.html?image=1
copy 6 June 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/chamberlain-munich-appeasement-second-world-war
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/The_Munich_Agreement_/
http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128337,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1316341,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1438796,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/30/newsid_3115000/3115476.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/britain/cen_munich.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/201.shtml?question=201
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/30/newsid_3115000/3115476.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/higher/history/roadwar/munich_rev2.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/learning/learningzone/showrecord?Id=3871
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/learning/learningzone/showrecord?Id=3870
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/scotland/learning/learningzone/showrecord?Id=3869
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7910.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7907.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7903.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7904.shtml
Countdown to World
War Two Monday 28 August 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/countdown_390828_mon_01.shtml
Anschluss > annexation of Austria
into Greater Germany by the Nazi regime
March 12, 1938
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005447
http://www.ushmm.org/research/library/bibliography/index.php?content=anschluss
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/201.shtml?question=201
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWanschluss.htm
Jewish refugees on wartime life in England
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/09/jewish-refugees-england-kindertransport-holocaust
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor visit Nazi
Germany October 1937
They meet Hitler, dine with his deputy, Rudolf
Hess,
and even visit a concentration camp
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor meet Adolf Hitler
in 1937
Caption from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nazi_Windsors.jpg
Photo from The Daily Mail
IAN KERSHAW
Last updated at 1:18 AM on 07th June 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1024798/
The-day-lost-Second-World-War--fictional-account-happened.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2701965.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/661966.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2003/jan/16/past.monarchy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/jan/25/freedomofinformation.monarchy
Spyclists: how Hitler Youth's cycling tours
caused panic in prewar Britain
Nazis' bid to forge ties with Lord
Baden-Powell and boy scouts
rang government alarm bells
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/08/hitler-youth-prewar-cyclists-boy-scouts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/08/hitler-youth-prewar-cyclists-boy-scouts
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/440.htm
Germany begins
rearming
and invades the Rhineland up to the French border
1936
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/overview_britain_1918_1945_03.shtml
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=536
Anglo-German Naval Agreement June 18,
1935
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-German_Naval_Agreement
The second world war: a timeline
significant events before, during and resulting from the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/sep/09/second-world-war-timeline
The Aerial Reconnaissance
Archive (Tara)
http://aerial.rcahms.gov.uk/worldwide/?PHPSESSID=44e1gbtdrk9joia61ndr2cu3t6
http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/air-photographs-collection.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2009/nov/23/secondworldwar-secret-photographs-online
Nazi Germany 1933-1945
Flag of Germany
1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Germany_1933.svg
http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/section.cfm?section_id=13
http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/nazifica.htm
Germany
Adolf Hitler comes to power
on a programme to reverse the Versailles
Treaty
1933
He withdraws from the disarmament conference
and leaves the League of Nations.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/overview_britain_1918_1945_03.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwtwo/overview_britain_1918_1945_03.shtml
British Fascism / fascism in the UK 1930s
Oswald Mosley (1896-1980)
British Union of Fascists
Flag of the British Union of Fascists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:British_Union_of_Fascists_flag.ant.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Mosley
copy 12 September 2009
British Union Of Fascists Meeting
Sir Oswald Mosley (C)
attending a meeting of the British Union of Facists.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1940
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
Oswald Mosley
standing and speaking with a hand raised to make a point.
Location: Ireland
Date taken: 1948
Photographer: Nat Farbman
Life Images
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Pfascists.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/uk-fascism-oswald-mosley
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/apr/23/oswald-moseley-1934-archive
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,1759160,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,6121,1466558,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1867679,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/nov/14/artsandhumanities.past
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/dec/27/highereducation.britishidentity
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/connect/oswald_mosely.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/1934/jun/08/thefarright.uk
Adolf Hitler
1889-1945
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/
5451531/Unseen-Adolf-Hitler-photographs-published.html
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?
articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1941-01-01-05-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1941-01-01-05
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Hitler_s_suicide/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/digitalarchive/story/0,,2210224,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/hitler_adolf.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/killing_hitler_01.shtml
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.htm
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/herblock/light.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2176600,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,2203962,00.html
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2143233,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2187718,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,,1087293,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,564899,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,649745,00.html
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,988683,00.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/nazi_propaganda_gallery.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3684288.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_lebensraum_05.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_01.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_commander_01.shtml
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