History of the Modern World, 10th Edition (Palmer)

Chapter 21: The Second World War

Primary Sources, Maps and Images

CV. The Weakness of the Democracies: Again to War

1. The Pacifism and Disunity of the West
• [Image Maginot Line]
• [Image Tank barrier, Maginot Line]

2. The March of Nazi and Fascist Aggression
• [Image Engelbert Dollfuss]
• [Image Austrian fascists]
• [Primary Source Locarno Agreement]
• [Image Reoccupation of the Rhineland]
• [Image German annexation of Austria, 1938]
• [Image 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia]
• [Map Ethiopia]
• [Primary Source Haile Selassie, Appeal to the League of Nations, 1936]
• [Image Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie]

3. The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
• [Image General Francisco Franco]
• [Image Fascist Spain]
• [Image German fliers in Spain, 1939]
• [Primary Source George Orwell, Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War]
• [Image Abraham Lincoln Brigade]
• [Image The Rome-Berlin Axis]
• [Primary Source The Anti-Comintern Pact]
• [Primary Source The "rape of Nanjing"]

4. The Munich Crisis: Climax of Appeasement
• [Image Sudeten Germans]
• [Image Conference at Munich, 1938]
• [Primary Source Munich Agreement, 1938]
• [Map Dismemberment of Czechoslovakia]
• [Image "Peace in our time"]
• [Primary Source Neville Chamberlain, Peace in our Time]
• [Image Sudetenland Germans, 1938]

5. End of Appeasement
• [Map Europe in 1939]
• [Primary Source The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939]
• [Image Celebrating signing of Nazi-Soviet Pact]
• [Primary Source Hitler's Directive No. 1 for the Conduct of the War, August 31, 1939]
• [Primary Source German invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939]
• [Image German invasion of Poland]

CVI. The Years of Axis Triumph

1. Nazi Europe, 1939-1940s: Poland and the Fall of France
• [Image German air war on Poland]
• [Image Bombardment of Warsaw, 1939]
• [Image Finnish soldiers at war with Soviets, 1939]
• [Image Germans attack Norway, 1940]
• [Image German attack on Holland, 1940]
• [Image Germans attack France, 1940]
• [Map Dunkirk]
• [Image Dunkirk]
• [Image German occupation of Paris, June 1940]
• [Primary Source Franco-German armistice, June 1940]
• [Image Battle of France]
• [Image Charles DeGaulle]
• [Image British attack on French fleet at Oran]
• [Image Vichy regime poster]
• [Image General Henri-Philippe Petain]
• [Image Pierre Laval]
• [Image French Resistance]
• [Image Slave laborer in German war industry, 1943]
• [Image Vidkun Quisling]

2. The Battle of Britain and American Aid
• [Image Winston Churchill]
• [Primary Source Winston Churchill, "Blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech]
• [Primary Source President Roosevelt, The Four Freedoms, 1941]
• [Primary Source Lend-Lease Agreement]
• [Image Battle of Britain: German perspective]
• [Primary Source Aircraft strengths and losses during Battle of Britain]
• [Image Radar device]
• [Image Coventry Cathedral destroyed]

3. The Nazi Invasion of Russia: The Russian Front, 1941-1942
• [Image German occupation of Yugoslavia]
• [Primary Source Vyacheslav Molotov, German Invasion of Russia, June 1941]
• [Primary Source Walter von Reichenau, Instruction to the German Army invading the Soviet Union]
• [Primary Source Hitler's intentions for Leningrad]
• [Images Soviet propaganda: Saving Leningrad]
• [Images Soviet propaganda: Saving Moscow]
• [Image Germans forced to fight in Russian winter]
• [Image Battle of Moscow]
• [Image Siege of Stalingrad]
• [Image Albert Speer]

4. 1942, the Year of Dismay: Russia, North Africa, the Pacific
• [Map Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, 1939-42]
• [Image Against England in North Africa, 1941]
• [Image Afrika Korps]
• [Image General Erwin Rommel]
• [Image British tanks at El Alamein]
• [Image Pearl Harbor]
• [Image Takeo Tanimizu, Japanese fighter pilot]
• [Map Japan's conquests, 1942]

CVII. The Western-Soviet Victory

1. Plans and Preparations, 1942-1943
• [Map Axis Powers, 1942]
• [Primary Source Declaration by the United Nations, 1942]
• [Image Battle of the Coral Sea]
• [Primary Source/Images J. R. Garrett, A Marine Diary: My Experiences on Guadalcanal]
• [Images Women war workers]
• [Images Women war workers]
• [Images Women war workers]
• [Image German woman war emergency service, 1942]
• [Image Soviet women fighter pilots]
• [Image War Ration Book]
• [Image War Bond Poster]
• [Image Collecting Scrap Metal in Nebraska]
• [Image Black Workers during World War II]
• [Image Japanese Internment Camp]
• [Image Battle of the Atlantic]

2. The Turning of the Tide, 1942-1943: Stalingrad, North Africa, Sicily
• [Image General Dwight D. Eisenhower]
• [Image German POWs, North Africa, 1943]
• [Image Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-3]
• [Image General Zhukov]
• [Image Rations]
• [Image Black market, Hamburg, 1944]
• [Image Allied invasion of Sicily]

3. The Allied Offensive, 1944-1945: Europe and the Pacific
• [Map Normandy invasion]
• [Image Normandy landing]
• [Image Liberation of Paris, August 1944]
• [Image Out with the Germans!, 1944]
• [Image V-1 rocket]
• [Image Launch of V-2 rocket]
• [Images Fire-bombing of Dresden]
• [Image Polish underground rising]
• [Image Soviets in Berlin, 1945]
• [Image Hitler Dead]
• [Image Admiral Doenitz]
• [Image Oradour-sur-Glane]
• [Image Execution of hostages in Pancevo, 1941]
• [Image Dachu Concentration camp]
• [Primary Source Rudolf Hoss Visits Treblinka]
• [Primary Source Wannsee Protocol, 1942]
• [Image Battle of Iwo Jima]
• [Image Atomic bomb]
• [Image Japanese surrender signed, September 2, 1945]
• [Image Primo Levi]

CVIII. The Foundations of the Peace

• [Primary Source The Atlantic Charter]
• [Primary Source Yalta Conference, February 1945]
• [Primary Source Potsdam Conference protocol, July 1945]
• [Primary Source Paris peace conference, 1946]