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A History of the Modern World
A History of the Modern World, 9/e
R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The Second World War

Chapter Outline

CV. The Weakness of the Democracies: Again to War

  1. The Pacifism and Disunity of the West
    1. [Image Maginot Line]
    2. [Image Tank barrier, Maginot Line]
    3. [Secondary Discussion/Image Neville Chamberlain]
  1. The March of Nazi and Fascist Aggression
    1. [Image Engelbert Dollfuss]
    2. [Image Austrian fascists]
    3. [Secondary Discussion] Anglo-German naval agreement, 1935]
    4. [Primary Source Locarno Agreement]
    5. [Image Reoccupation of the Rhineland]
    6. [Image German annexation of Austria, 1938]
    7. [Image 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia]
    8. [Secondary Discussion] Italian Conquest of Ethiopia, 1935-36]
    9. [Map Ethiopia]
    10. [Primary Source Haile Selassie, Appeal to the League of Nations, 1936]
    11. [Image Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie]
  1. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
    1. [Map Spain, 1937]
    2. [Image General Francisco Franco]
    3. [Image Fascist Spain]
    4. [Image German fliers in Spain, 1939]
    5. [Primary Source George Orwell, Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War]
    6. [Image Abraham Lincoln Brigade]
    7. [Image The Rome-Berlin Axis ]
    8. [Primary Source The Anti-Comintern Pact]
    9. [Primary Source The "rape of Nanjing"]
  1. The Munich Crisis: Climax of Appeasement
    1. [Image Sudeten Germans]
    2. [Image Conference at Munich, 1938]
    3. [Primary Source Munich Agreement, 1938]
    4. [Map Dismemberment of Czechoslovakia]
    5. [Image "Peace in our time"]
    6. [Primary Source Neville Chamberlain, Peace in our Time]
    7. [Image Sudetenland Germans, 1938]
    8. [Image Hungary annexed Ruthenia]
  1. End of Appeasement
    1. [Map Europe in 1939]
    2. [Primary Source The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939]
    3. [Image Celebrating signing of Nazi-Soviet Pact]
    4. [Primary Source Hitler's Directive No. 1 for the Conduct of the War, August 31, 1939]
    5. [Primary Source German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939]
    6. [Image German invasion of Poland]

CVI. The Years of Axis Triumph

  1. Nazi Europe, 1939-1940s: Poland and the Fall of France
    1. [Image German air war on Poland]
    2. [Image Bombardment of Warsaw, 1939]
    3. [Secondary Discussion/Images Polish armed forces]
    4. [Image Finnish soldiers at war with Soviets, 1939]
    5. [Image Germans attack Norway, 1940]
    6. [Image German attack on Holland, 1940]
    7. [Image Germans attack France, 1940]
    8. [Map Dunkirk]
    9. [Image Dunkirk]
    10. [Image German occupation of Paris, June 1940]
    11. [Primary Source Franco-German armistice, June 1940]
    12. [Image Charles DeGaulle]
    13. [Image British attack on French fleet at Oran]
    14. [Image Vichy regime poster]
    15. [Image General Henri-Philippe Petain]
    16. [Image Pierre Laval]
    17. [Image French Resistance]
    18. [Image Slave laborer in German war industry, 1943]
    19. [Image Vidkun Quisling]
    20. [Image Flemish soldiers in German division]
    21. [Secondary Discussion] Norwegian Collaborationist Forces During WWII]
  1. The Battle of Britain and American Aid
    1. [Image Winston Churchill]
    2. [Primary Source Winston Churchill, "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech]
    3. [Primary Source President Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, 1941]
    4. [Primary Source Lend-Lease Agreement]
    5. [Image British bomb shelter]
    6. [Image London, September 7, 1940]
    7. [Image Air raid warning]
    8. [Image Battle of Britain: German perspective]
    9. [Primary Source Aircraft strengths and losses during Battle of Britain]
    10. [Image Radar device]
    11. [Image Coventry Cathedral destroyed]
  1. The Nazi Invasion of Russia: The Russian Front, 1941-1942
    1. [Image German occupation of Yugoslavia]
    2. [Map German invasion of Soviet Union]
    3. [Primary Source Vyacheslav Molotov, German Invasion of Russia, June 1941]
    4. [Primary Source Walter von Reichenau, Instruction to the German Army invading the Soviet Union]
    5. [Primary Source Hitler's intentions for Leningrad]
    6. [Images Soviet propaganda: Saving Leningrad]
    7. [Images Soviet propaganda: Saving Leningrad]
    8. [Image Germans forced to fight in Russian winter]
    9. [Image Battle of Moscow]
    10. [Image Siege of Stalingrad]
    11. [Image Albert Speer]
  1. 1942, the Year of Dismay: Russia, North Africa, the Pacific
    1. [Map Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, 1939-42]
    2. [Image Against England in North Africa, 1941]
    3. [Image Afrika Korps]
    4. [Image General Erwin Rommel]
    5. [Image British tanks at El Alamein]
    6. [Image General Hideki Tojo]
    7. [Image Pearl Harbor]
    8. [Image Takeo Tanimizu, Japanese fighter pilot]
    9. [Map Japan's conquests, 1942]

CVII. The Western-Soviet Victory

  1. Plans and Preparations, 1942-1943
    1. [Map Axis Powers, 1942]
    2. [Primary Source Declaration by the United Nations, 1942]
    3. [Image Battle of the Coral Sea]
    4. [Secondary Discussion/Images Battle of Midway]
    5. [Primary Source/Images J. R. Garrett, A Marine Diary: My Experiences on Guadalcanal]
    6. [Images Women war workers]
    7. [Images Women war workers]
    8. [Images Women war workers]
    9. [Image German woman war emergency service, 1942]
    10. [Image Soviet women fighter pilots]
    11. [Image Battle of the Atlantic]
  1. The Turning of the Tide, 1942-1943: Stalingrad, North Africa, Sicily
    1. [Image General Dwight D. Eisenhower]
    2. [Image German POWs, North Africa, 1943]
    3. [Image Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-3]
    4. [Image General Zhukov]
    5. [Image British housewives picking up ration books]
    6. [Image Rations]
    7. [Image Black market, Hamburg, 1944]
    8. [Image Allied invasion of Sicily]
  1. The Allied Offensive, 1944-1945: Europe and the Pacific
    1. [Map Normandy invasion]
    2. [Image Normandy landing]
    3. [Image Liberation of Paris, August 1944]
    4. [Image Out with the Germans!, 1944]
    5. [Image V-1 rocket]
    6. [Image Launch of V-2 rocket]
    7. [Images Fire-bombing of Dresden]
    8. [Image Polish underground rising]
    9. [Image Soviets in Berlin, 1945]
    10. [Image Hitler Dead]
    11. [Image Admiral Doenitz]
    12. [Image Oradour-sur-Glane]
    13. [Image Execution of hostages in Pancevo, 1941]
    14. [Image Dachu Concentration camp]
    15. [Primary Source Rudolf Hoss Visits Treblinka]
    16. [Secondary Discussion] Sobibor death camp]
    17. [Primary Source Wannsee Protocol, 1942]
    18. [Image Battle of Iwo Jima]
    19. [Image Atomic bomb]
    20. [Image Japanese surrender signed, September 2, 1945]

CVIII. The Foundations of the Peace

    1. [Primary Source The Atlantic Charter]
    2. [Image Yalta Conference]
    3. [Primary Source Yalta Conference, February 1945]
    4. [Primary Source Potsdam Conference protocol, July 1945]
    5. [Primary Source Paris peace conference, 1946]
    6. [Primary Source Treaty of Peace with Japan, 1951]








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