World War II: History Brief
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798644077236
- Series
- World War II
- Pages
- 236
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-06-29
- Author
- Robert Keith Marshall
Description
This book includes the text portions of our Reading Through History World War II series. Reading this will give anyone a great summary/overview of the war. Topics Included are as follows: Section 1: #Adolph Hitler: Mein Kampf, foundation of the Nazi Party etc.#The Nazis: Night of the Long Knives, the SS, etc. (the Nazification of Germany)#Benito Mussolini & Fascism#Imperial Japan: Hirohito, Manchuria, #Other Causes of World War II#Appeasement (The weakness of the League of Nations, Neville Chamberlain, Italy's invasion of Ethiopia)# German occupation of the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia# Hitler invades Poland, Non-Aggression PactSection 2: #The Phony War, Stalin goes into Baltic + Finland. Hitler attacks Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Norway. The Invasion of France & Dunkirk.#The French Resistance, the Polish Resistance#Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister#The Battle of Britain (Radar and ULTRA)#Germany invades RussiaSection 3: #US efforts to avoid war: (Cash & Carry, the Arsenal of Democracy, Selective Service Act, America First Committee, Interventionists vs. Isolationists, Neutrality Acts)#Pearl Harbor and its aftermath, the Philippines, the US Declaration of War#The fall of the Philippines and the Doolittle Raid#Battle of Midway#StalingradSection 4: #Africa, Sicily, and Italy#D-Day (Operation Overlord) and the #Liberation of Paris#The Battle of the Bulge#Closing in on Berlin (Dresden)#Fall of Berlin and V-E DaySection 5: #The War in Pacific (Island Hopping, Iwo Jima, the Philippines, etc.)#The Manhattan Project#Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Truman's decision to use#USS Indianapolis#VJ Day - Surrender on USS Missouri + cost of the warSection 6: #US Leaders#Other Allied leaders#German Leaders#Japanese LeadersSection 7: #Anti-Semitism, Nuremburg laws, Yellow Star of David, Kristallnacht#Ghettos#Warsaw Uprising#Concentration camps#Death Camps#AuschwitzSection 8: #Labor in WWII#The Giant has awakened: the US war machine#Rosie the Riveter#The War at Home: Rationing, victory gardens, scrap drives, war bondsSection 9: #Zoot Suit Riot#Tuskegee Airmen#Double V Campaign + integration efforts + Great Migration#Navajo Code Talkers#Japanese Internment CampsSection 10: #atrocities: Soviets in Poland, POWs, the Rape of Nanking, Bataan Death March, Burma RR, cannibalism, mass rape during the war#Technological advancements of the war#Nuremberg Trials and Japanese war crimes tribunalSection 11: #Casablanca and Tehran#Yalta#Potsdam
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