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Henri-Chapelle Cemetery, Belgium
Date taken: November 1946
Photographer: Ralph Morse
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=c94836dddafcf8bd
August 15, 1945
"American servicemen and women
gather in front of "Rainbow Corner" Red Cross
club in Paris
to celebrate the unconditional surrender of the Japanese."
By an unknown photographer,
Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
(111-SC-210241)
NARA > Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years of Photography
from the National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/picturing-the-century-photos/rainbow-corner-club-paris.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-kits/1930-census-photos/
Saudi Arabia gains strategic importance during
World War II
Although Saudi Arabia officially maintained
neutrality through most of the war,
the U.S. began to court the kingdom as it
realized the strategic importance of Saudi oil reserves.
In 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt made
Saudi Arabia eligible for Lend-Lease assistance
by declaring the defense of Saudi Arabia of
vital interest to the U.S.
In 1945, King Abdel Aziz and President
Roosevelt
cemented the tacit oil-for-security
relationship
when they met aboard the USS Quincy in the
Suez Canal.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/etc/cron.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/etc/cron.html
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,
Japan August 6 / 9, 1945
Japan
B-29 missions against Tokyo 1945
On March 10, 1945, flying in darkness at low
altitudes,
more than 300 B-29s dropped close to a quarter
of a million incendiary bombs over Tokyo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pacific/peopleevents/e_b29s.html
Algeria
Massacres in the Sétif and Guelma
regions May 1945
http://mondediplo.com/2005/05/14algeria
http://www.ldh-toulon.net/spip.php?article286
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050801150.html
http://www.humanite.fr/2004-10-28_International_8-mai-1945-massacre-colonial-a-Setif
http://www.mediapart.fr/club/blog/benjamin-stora/280408/setif-guelma-de-la-tragedie-aux-massacres-epouvantables
http://www.grands-reporters.com/La-blessure-de-Setif.html
Germany signs unconditional surrender
7 May 1945
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/7/newsid_3578000/3578325.stm
Germany
Battle of Berlin 1945
Red Army enters outskirts of Berlin
21 April 1945
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/21/newsid_3560000/3560175.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/berlin_01.shtml
Germany Bombing
of Dresden, led by Royal Air Force
and followed by the United States Army Air
Force February 13-15, 1945
Dresden
Streetcars running through ruins of bldgs.
destroyed in 1945 allied fire bombing of city in post-WWII
Russian zone.
Location: Dresden, Germany
Date taken: 1946
Photographer: William Vandivert
Life Images
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.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWdresden.htm
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
Russia
Ukraine
Yalta Conference
4-11 February 1945
Conference of the Big Three at Yalta makes final plans for the
defeat of Germany.
L to R:
Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and
Premier Josef Stalin.
February 1945.
111-SC-260486
Pictures of World War II > Leaders
US National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-05.jpg
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/
WWII allies 3-power conf. (L-R seated) British
PM Churchill, US Pres. Roosevelt, Soviet ldr. Stalin,
w. aides (standing L-R) Fleet Adm. Cunningham,
Fleet Adm. King, Air Marshal Portal, US Adm. Leahy & unident. Soviets, at
Livadia Palace.
Location: Yalta, Ukraine, Russia
Date taken: February 1945
Life Images
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4241863.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4201858.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/7/newsid_3517000/3517236.stm
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/wwii/yalta.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWyalta.htm
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/01/documents/yalta.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/second-world-war-germany-yalta
Ardennes belges et nord du Grand-Duché de
Luxembourg
Bataille des Ardennes / Battle of the Bulge
December 1944 - January 1945
Rundstedt's offensive against American troops
in the Ardennes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DeadBelgiumcivilians1944.jpg
The bodies of Belgian men, women, and children,
killed by the German military during their counter-offensive into Luxembourg and
Belgium,
await identification before burial.
15 December 1944
Source National Archives and Records Administration
Author Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs
Primary source > NARA > ARC Identifier 196543
http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalIdSearch?id=196543&jScript=true
Troops of the famed 82nd Airborne Div (3rd Batt; 504th Para.
Reg.).
march through snow behind tanks of the 340th Tank battalion
on way to engage Germans nr. town of Herresbach during the
Battle of the Bulge.
Location: Herresbach, Belgium
Date taken: December 1944
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=7e3993069999e7fc
Bodies (marked for identification)
of American POW soldiers of
Battery B, 285th Field Artillery Observation Battlion
murdered in cold blood on Dec. 17, 1944
by a regiment of the Nazi 1st SS Panzer Div.
under command of Lt. Col. Jochen Peiper outside the town of
Malmedy
during the opening days of the Battle of the Bulge.
Location: Malmedy, Belgium
Date taken: January 15, 1945
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=2e2ddd790a82d179
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bulge/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/ff7_bulge.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/battle_bulge_01.shtml
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10006178
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/maps/wwii/essay1.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Battle_of_the_Bulge/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/opinion/23colley.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/second-world-war-battle-bulge
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
France Liberation of Paris
25 August 1944
American troops in tank passing the Arc de
Triomphe after the liberation of Paris,
August 1944.
208-YE-68.
Pictures of World War II
US National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/images/ww2-105.jpg
Sign carrying civilians march in parade
the day after the liberation of Paris by Allied troops.
Location: Paris, France
Date taken: August 26, 1944
Photographer: Frank Scherschel
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=2f7515f69abac870
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7984436.stm
http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/photos/?template=print#france
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/liberation-paris-lee-miller-1944
http://www.v1.paris.fr/musees/memorial/liberation_de_paris/default.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3590542.stm
http://www.lemonde.fr/shoah-les-derniers-temoins-racontent/article/2005/08/01/
les-parisiens-racontent-l-embrasement-d-une-ville_676095_641295.html#ens_id=675875
http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/seconde-guerre-mondiale/video/
AFE00003169/le-general-de-gaulle-a-paris.fr.html
http://www.ina.fr/fictions-et-animations/fictions-historiques/video/AFE99000037/
le-general-de-gaulle-met-le-pied-sur-la-terre-de-france.fr.html
http://www.ina.fr/fictions-et-animations/fictions-historiques/video/AFE00003044/
role-de-l-armee-francaise-dans-la-liberation-de-la-france.fr.html
http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/seconde-guerre-mondiale/video/AFE00003140/
annonces-du-debarquement-en-normandie-et-de-la-liberation-de-paris-a-alger.fr.html
http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/seconde-guerre-mondiale/video/AFE99000038/
journal-de-la-resistance-la-liberation-de-paris.fr.html
http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/seconde-guerre-mondiale/video/AFE01000022/
la-liberation-de-paris-version-monde-libre.fr.html
http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/seconde-guerre-mondiale/video/AFE04002049/
bilan-d-un-an.fr.html
Paris liberation made 'whites only'
25 August 1944
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7984436.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7868913.stm
Germany
The Stauffenberg plot to kill
Hitler
July 1944
Count Claus von Stauffenberg
1907-1944
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/stauffenberg-plot-germany-hitler
Italy Liberation
of Rome June 1944
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/liberation-rome-1944-second-world-war
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/5/newsid_3547000/3547329.stm
D-Day / Normandy landings
June 6, 1944
Operation Overlord, Letters from D-day, First-person accounts, Capa's photographs
French resistance
Andrée Peel 1905-2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/world/europe/14peel.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7868913.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7407992/Andre-Peel.html
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/War-heroine-Andree-Peel-celebrates-104th-birthday/article-667495-detail/article.html
First Jewish Broadcast from
Aachen, Germany
Oct. 29, 1944
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/nyregion/18cantor.html
http://www.ajcarchives.org/main.php?GroupingId=1240
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZihm6VlYjo
Second Moscow Conference
9-19 October 1944
The Allied conference held in Moscow in
October 1944 was codenamed Tolstoy.
It involved Stalin, Churchill and their
advisors.
America was represented by the US ambassador
Averell Harriman, as an observer,
and the head of the US military in Moscow,
General John Dean.
Outcome: Decisions about Russia's entry in the
war against Japan;
post-war division of the Balkans; the future
of Poland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144874.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144874.shtml
Italian Campaign 1943-1945
Battle of
Kursk The largest tank battle
in history
July-August 1943
German and
Soviet operations on the Eastern Front
Georgi Zhukov
1896-1974
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/zhukov_georgi.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kursk
Western
Allies invade Sicily July 1943
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/10/newsid_3587000/3587283.stm
Allies
Second Washington Conference 11-25 May
1943
The
primary focus of the conference was future strategy in the European war.
A major
decision was made to delay the invasion of France;
a date was set for May the
following year.
To
establish air bases in the Azores,
the Allies also decided to apply to Portugal
for assistance.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1142047.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1142047.shtml
Allies
Casablanca Conference 14-24 January
1943
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1140373.shtml
Russia Battle of Stalingrad
August 21, 1942 - February 2, 1943
Red Army soldier marches a German soldier into captivity
English translation of the original image caption:
The Battle of Stalingrad from 7 July 1942 through 2 Feb 1943
After the capitulation of the fascist German troops on 31 January and 2
February,
91,000 survivors became prisoners of war. A younger soldier and fanatical Nazi,
who has not realized this end, yet.
Note: The original image caption is communist propaganda, obviously.
In fact, you see nothing but a wounded young POW, guarded by a soviet soldier
(in background).
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv
_Bild_183-E0406-0022-011,_Russland,_deutscher_Kriegsgefangener.jpg
Primary source > Bundesarchiv
Original title: ADN-Zentralbild/Archiv
II Weltkrieg 1939-45
Die Schlacht um Stalingrad vom 17.7.1942 bis 2.2.1943.
Nach der Kapitulation der faschistischen deutschen
Truppen am 31.1. und 2.2.1943
gingen 91 000 Überlebende in die Gefangenschaft.
Ein junger Soldat und fanatischer Nazi, der dieses Ende noch nicht begriffen
hat.
Signature: Bild 183-E0406-0022-011
Inventory: Bild 183 - Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst - Zentralbild
http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/
_1253291491/?search%5Bform%5D%5BSIGNATUR%5D=Bild+183-E0406-0022-011
Defeat of Nazi Germany, 1942-1945 > map
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005137&MediaId=364
Copyright © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/2/newsid_3573000/3573003.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_russia_invasion_04.shtml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Stalingrad_/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/hitler-germany-campaign-collapsed
Operation Torch
Algeria-Morocco military campaign
Allied
Landings in French North Africa
8 November 1942
France
Dieppe Raid / Landing
also known
as The Battle of Dieppe, Operation Rutter or Operation Jubilee
19 August 1942
Most of
the 6,000-strong force was made up of Canadians,
seeing
front line action for the first time,
as well as
British, American and French soldiers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/19/newsid_3560000/3560309.stm
http://www.junobeach.org/e/2/can-eve-mob-die-e.htm
http://www.dday-overlord.com/eng/operation_jubilee.htm
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/dieppe/026012-4060-e.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/19/newsid_3560000/3560309.stm
France
Près de Soisson Margival, la
forteresse hitlérienne méconnue
Construit en 1942 par des ouvriers français,
le camp de Margival, dans l'Aisne, fut,
jusqu'en 1944,
le QG d'Hitler
en France.
http://www.lesechos.fr/info/france/020725082719.htm
http://www.lesechos.fr/info/france/020725082719.htm
http://www.dday-overlord.com/eng/bridgehead_3.htm
Allies
Washington Conference 22 December 1941
- 14 January 1942
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1140346.shtml
Allies Normandie-Niémen unit
Created by
de Gaulle in 1942
to help repel
Hitler’s invasion of the Soviet
Union in June 1941,
the Normandie-Niémen unit was composed of
nearly 100 French fighter pilots,
almost half of whom were killed in action.
ttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/26/world/europe/26albert.html
The German army attacks Russia
Operation
Barbarossa June 1941
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/system/topicRoot/Operation_Barbarossa/
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?
articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1941-06-23-04-001&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1941-06-23-04
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/06/operation-barbarossa-russia-second-world-war
Atlantic Ocean
Contemporary accounts
of Atlantic Ocean battles during the
second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/08/buchheim-monsarrat-atlantic-naval-duel-ww2
USA
Home front
Tuskegee airmen
The Tuskegee Airmen were the
country's first black aviation combat unit.
The legendary all-black
fighting force,
originally 16,000 pilots and ground crew, fought in World War II
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/tuskegee_airmen/index.html
Members of the famed Tuskegee Airmen as
cadets
(L-R) Lemuel Custis, Mac Ross, Charles
DeBow, Frederick Moore, C.H. Flowers Jr., George Levi Knox,
instructor Donald McPherson, Lee Rayford,
Sherman White Jr., George Roberts & James Knighten
looking at a flight map during a training
class.
Location: Tuskegee, AL, US
Date taken: 1942
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=1cac5d31f866bb5e
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/t/tuskegee_airmen/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/29/business/29haysbert.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/us/04archer.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8686847
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8921162
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8922048
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/18/lee-archer-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/mar/08/percy-sutton-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8431012
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-03-29-tuskegee_N.htm
Soviet-German War
1941-1945
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/soviet_german_war_01.shtml
Germans invade the Soviet Union
Summer 1941
Air Raid Over Moscow
Overall of central Moscow w. antiaircraft gunners dotting sky
over Red Square
w. exploding shells w. spires of Kremlin silhouetted by German
Luftwaffe flare.
Location: Moscow, Russia
Date taken: July 26, 1941
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=eabefc43c9dc43b0
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/hitler_russia_invasion_02.shtml
Greece
Axis occupation April 1941 - October
1944
The Axis occupation of Greece during World War
II began in April 1941
after the German and
Italian invasion of Greece,
and was carried out together with
Bulgarian
forces.
The Occupation lasted
until the German
withdrawal from the mainland in October 1944.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Greece_during_World_War_II
Ragged young Greek children during WWII.
Location: Greece
Date taken: October 1944
Photographer: Dmitri Kessel
Life Images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Greece_during_World_War_II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_occupation_of_Greece_during_World_War_II
In early
March 1941,
Bulgaria
joined the Axis alliance
and, in
April 1941,
participated in the German-led attack on Yugoslavia and Greece.
In return,
Bulgaria received most of Thrace from Greece, and Macedonia
as well as
parts of eastern Serbia from Yugoslavia.
Though
Bulgaria participated in the Balkan Campaign,
it refused
to enter the war against the Soviet Union
in June 1941
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005451
Hitler/Jaeger File
German troops enter Bulgaria.
Date taken: March 1941
Photographer: Hugo Jaeger
Hugo Jaeger was one of Hitler's personal photographers.
http://www.life.com/image/ugc1000272/in-gallery/27022
Life images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=79631bc8a3b75742
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005451
USA / Japan
Pacific Campaign
1941-1945
USA Japanese-Americans internment
camps
USA / Japan Pearl Harbor
Sunday, 7 December 1941
The case against
American isolationism
during the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/07/american-isolationism-henry-luce-ww2
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
German conquests in Europe map
1939-1942
German conquests in Europe, 1939-1942 > map
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_nm.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005137&MediaId=363
Copyright © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
USA Trading with
the Enemy Act
George W. Bush's
grandfather / US senator Prescott Sheldon Bush
1895-1972
Steve Bell The Guardian G2 p. 23
10.5.2005
Top > Main character : U.S. President George W. Bush
Top > last image on tle right: Adolf Hitler.
http://digital.guardian.co.uk/guardian/2005/05/10/pages/two22.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=b001167
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312517,00.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,100474,00.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MDbushPR.htm
http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-aristocracy/
memorial-day-photo-fun-prescott-bush-runs-the-world-263710.php
United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle's BBC rallying call to France
/ Appel du 22 juin 22 June 1940
Il n'y a pas eu d'enregistrement (audio ou
vidéo) de l'Appel du 18 juin 1940
contrairement à celui du 22 juin 1940 avec
lequel on le confond souvent
http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/dossiers-thematiques/1940-1944-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale/l-appel-du-18-juin/documents/l-appel-du-22-juin-1940.php
http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/dossiers-thematiques/
1940-1944-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale/l-appel-du-18-juin/documents/l-appel-du-22-juin-1940.php
United Kingdom
Charles de Gaulle's BBC rallying call to France
/ Appel du 18 juin 18 June 1940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/18/charles-de-gaulle-bbc-broadcast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/13/de-gaulle-rallying-cry-almost-silenced
http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/dossiers-thematiques/1940-1944-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale/l-appel-du-18-juin.php
http://www.charles-de-gaulle.org/pages/l-homme/dossiers-thematiques/
1940-1944-la-seconde-guerre-mondiale/l-appel-du-18-juin/documents/l-appel-du-18-juin-1940.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10339678
Guerre dans le Grand Nord
En avril 1940,
les troupes allemandes lancent une offensive
contre la Norvège.
D’abord prises au piège à Narvik, port
norvégien au-delà du cercle polaire,
elles sont ensuite en première ligne pour
attaquer l’Union soviétique.
http://www.arte.tv/fr/content/tv/02__Universes/U1__Comprendre__le__monde/02-
WebMagazines/50_20ARTE_20Histoire/01_20Geschichte_20am_20Mittwoch/01_20Aktuell/edition-2010.08.08/ART__intro__Arktis__11.08.2010/3347848.html
http://www.arte.tv/fr/content/tv/02__Universes/U1__Comprendre__le__monde/
02-WebMagazines/50_20ARTE_20Histoire/01_20Geschichte_20am_20Mittwoch/
01_20Aktuell/edition-2010.08.08/ART__intro__Arktis__11.08.2010/3347848.html
Romania and Hungary joined the Tri-partite
Pact
- originally signed by Germany, Japan and
Italy -
in November 1940,
as
Hitler prepared his attack against
Bolshevism on the Eastern Front.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1138501.shtml
France
Hendaye
Adolf Hitler meets Francisco
Franco October 23, 1940
Smiling German ldr. Adolf Hitler (R)
shaking hands w. Spanish leader Generalissimo Francisco Franco
(2L)
during Hitler's only official meeeting w. Franco.
Location: Hendaye, France
Date taken: October 23, 1940
Life Images
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=2bab5be9c6f1bc41
http://www.ina.fr/histoire-et-conflits/seconde-guerre-mondiale/video/AFE85000178/entrevue-historique-du-chancelier-hitler-avec-le-general-franco.fr.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/3533400/Franco-feared-Hitler-would-kidnap-him.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d32vTvpV7s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8iZx83C_bM
The
Tripartite Pact,
also
called the Three-Power Pact, Axis Pact, Three-way Pact or Tripartite Treaty,
was signed
in Berlin, Germany on September 27, 1940.
It
established the Axis Powers of World War II.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_Pact
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?ModuleId=10005177
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/wwii/triparti.asp
http://www.ina.fr/fresques/jalons/notice/InaEdu00227/signature-du-pacte-tripartite-entre-l-allemagne-l-italie-et-le-japon
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
Netherlands Rotterdam
German bombers set whole inner city of Rotterdam ablaze, killing 30,000 of its
inhabitants May 14, 1940
Leveled city of Rotterdam resulting from ignored German
ultimatum
ordering Dutch commander of city to cease fire delivered to
him at 10:30 a.m. on May 14, 1940;
at 1:22 p.m., German bombers set whole inner city of Rotterdam
ablase, killing 30,000 of its inhabitants.
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Date taken: 1940
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=c35a9c97fcd778ca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotterdam_Blitz
Why did the second world war begin?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/second-world-war-background-causes
Russia before the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/second-world-war-stalin-russia
Rising tension in Asia before the second world war
Declining relations between Russia and Japan
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/second-world-war-asia-japan-russia
America's economy before the second world war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/america-great-depression-second-world-war
The economic impact of the Treaty of Versailles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/versailles-second-world-war
Germany invades Poland
September 1, 1939
Nazi Germany invades Poland.
Beginning of World War II
as the United Kingdom declares war on Germany
in response to the invasion.
The Soviet Union invades from the east.
Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland
between them
and treat Polish citizens with extreme
brutality.
Germany begins systematic persecution of the
large Jewish population.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm
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.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/wwii/
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005069
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7913.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7914.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact / Nazi-Soviet
Pact
Treaty of Non-Aggression
between the Third German Reich
and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
23 / 24 August 1939
L to R: Stalin and Ribbentrop
at the signing of the Pact
23 August 1939
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-H27337,_Moskau,_Stalin_und_Ribbentrop_im_Kreml.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
Primary source > Das Bundesarchiv
http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1252826541/?
search%5Bform%5D%5BSIGNATUR%5D=Bild+183-H27337
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8212451.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8214391.stm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/higher/history/roadwar/munich_rev2.shtml
Italy and Germany
sign the Pact of Steel to
help each other in the event of war 22
May 1939
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/learning/bitesize/higher/history/roadwar/munich_rev2.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
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/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
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=3871
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
Partition of Czechoslovakia
1938-1939
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=2473
German-Japanese Treaty
Berlin and Tokio announce their pact
November 1936
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1930-1939/Story/0,,127041,00.html
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
Italy
Mussolini
'Ethiopia is Italian' 1936
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1930-1939/Story/0,,127067,00.html
Italy Italy's empire building before
the second world war
Mussolini's conquest of
Abyssinia 1936
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/05/italy-abyssinia-second-world-war
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1930-1939/Story/0,,127069,00.html
Mussolini and
Hitler
recognise the Government of General Franco
November 1936
http://century.guardian.co.uk/1930-1939/Story/0,,127033,00.html
Anglo-German Naval Agreement
June 18, 1935
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-German_Naval_Agreement
Nazi Germany
Germany
Adolf Hitler comes to power 1933
on a programme to reverse the Versailles
Treaty.
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
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/hitlerconsolidaterev2.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/germany/hitlerconsolidaterev_print.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/197.shtml?question=197
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir1/aimsrev1.shtml
USA The
Immigration Act of 1924 (The Johnson-Reed Act)
Japanese immigration to
America is banned 1924
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/id/87718.htm
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/immigration_chron.cfm
U.S. Isolationism
1920s
http://www.geocities.com/crownac/isolation.htm
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1584/is_n17_v2/ai_11173912
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