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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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Canada > Canadian War Posters Collection
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/warposters/english/introduction.htm

 

 

The Guardian > Second World War

 

Second world war > Holocaust
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/09/second-world-war

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/08/second-world-war

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Second World War > Aftermath
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/sep/11/second-world-war

 

 

BBC Archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7970.shtml

 

 

Le Monde Diplomatique > Seconde guerre mondiale 1939-1945
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/index/sujet/secondeguerremondiale

 

 

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