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Why was the Second World War so devastating, and how had the world become so divided into armed camps? How did the war affect people on both sides of the conflict, and why are its consequences still felt today? This book seeks to relate the overall events
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| January 30, 1933 | Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany. |
| August 1934 | Hitler becomes fhrer (dictator) of Germany. |
| March 1935 | Hitler begins to build up German armed forces. |
| September 1935 | The Nuremberg Laws in Germany take away many rights of Jews. |
| March 1936 | German troops occupy the Rhineland. |
| May 1936 | Italy invades Abyssinia (modern Ethiopia). |
| March 13, 1938 | Germany forms a union ( Anschluss ) with Austria. |
| October 1938 | Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. |
| November 9, 1938 | Kristallnacht is a widespread night of violence against German and Austrian Jews. |
| March 15, 1939 | Germany invades Czechoslovakia. |
| August 23, 1939 | Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact. |
| September 1, 1939 | German begins its blitzkrieg invasion of Poland. |
| September 3, 1939 | The United Kingdom and France declare war on Germany. World War II begins. |
| April 9, 1940 | Germany launches an invasion of Denmark and Norway. |
| May 1940 | Germany invades the Low Countries and then France. Winston Churchill becomes Britishprime minister. |
| June 10, 1940 | Italy joins the war on Germanys side. |
| June 14, 1940 | The Germans take Paris. |
| June 22, 1940 | France signs an armistice with Germany. |
| JulyOctober 1940 | The Battle of Britain begins. German bombing raids on British towns begin. |
| October 1940 | Nazis establish a Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. |
| March 11, 1941 | U.S. President Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Bill, making the United States a partnerof the United Kingdom. |
| April 1941 | German troops begin invasions of Yugoslavia and Greece. |
| June 22, 1941 | Hitler launches Operation Barbarossa against the Soviet Union. |
| December 7, 1941 | Japanese aircraft attack the U.S. Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. |
| December 8, 1941 | The United States and United Kingdom declare war on Japan. |
| December 15, 1941 | Japan begins invasions of the Philippines, Burma, and other Pacific countries. |
| February 15, 1942 | The United Kingdom surrenders Singapore to the Japanese. |
| March 9, 1942 | The Japanese capture Java. |
| April 18, 1942 | The first U.S. bombing raid on Tokyo occurs. |
| June 6, 1942 | The U.S. Navy defeats the Japanese at Midway. |
| November 6, 1942 | The Allies achieve victory at El Alamein, North Africa. |
| January 31, 1943 | German forces surrender at Stalingrad. |
| May 13, 1943 | German forces in North Africa surrender. |
| July 1943 | The Soviets achieve victory over the Germans at Kursk. U.S. forces begin to recapturethe Solomon Islands and Gilbert Islands. The Allies land in Sicily. |
| September 8, 1943 | Italy surrenders to the Allies. |
| January 1944 | The Soviets relieve the German siege of Leningrad. |
| March 1944 | The Japanese cross the Indian border and besiege Imphal. |
| June 5, 1944 | The Allies liberate Rome, Italy. |
| June 6, 1944 | D-Day: The Allies launch a massive invasion in Normandy, France. |
| June 20, 1944 | The U.S. Navy defeats Japan in the Battle of the Philippine Sea. |
| August 25, 1944 | Paris is liberated. |
| October 20, 1944 | U.S. forces land on the Philippines. |
| December 16, 1944 | Germans counterattack in northern France in the Battle of the Bulge. |
| March 1945 | U.S. forces capture Iwo Jima. Allies cross the Rhine into Germany. |
| April 22, 1945 | Soviet troops enter Berlin, Germany. |
| April 30, 1945 | Hitler commits suicide. |
| May 8, 1945 | Germany surrenders. It is VE (Victory in Europe) Day. |
| June 1945 | U.S. forces capture Okinawa. |
| Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 | U.S. aircraft drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| August 15, 1945 | Japan surrenders. It is VJ (Victory over Japan) Day. |
| September 2, 1945 | Japanese leaders sign the surrender documents. World War II officially ends. |
The Path to War (pages 49)
John Keegan, The Second World War (London: Hutchinson, 1989), 590.
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Gordon Corrigan, The Second World War: A Military History (London: Atlantic Books,2010), 81.
Piers Brendon, The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (London: Jonathan Cape,2000), 392.
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Ian Kershaw, Hitler 18891936: Hubris (New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), 152.
Piers Brendon, The Dark Valley , 464.
Leonard Baker, Days of Sorrow and Pain (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978),231.
A Lightning War (pages 1017)
1. John Keegan, The Second World War , 81.
2. Alistair Horne, To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (London: Macmillan, 1969), 397.
Struggle to Survive (pages 1823)
1. John Keegan, The Second World War , 94.
2. Martin Gilbert, Second World War (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989), 108.
3. John Keegan, The Second World War , 95.
4. Gordon Corrigan, The Second World War , 112.
5. Martin Gilbert, Second World War , 117.
6. Ibid , 122.
7. Len Deighton, Fighter: The True Story of the Battle of Britain (London: JonathanCape, 1977), 280.
8. Ibid .
9. http://www.battleofbritain1940.netdocument-17.html.
Ibid.
Ibid , 266.
Derrik Mercer (ed.), Chronicle of the Second World War (Longman, 1990), 130.
John Keegan, The Second World War , 104.
Martin Gilbert, Second World War , 135.
Campaigns in the East (pages 2429)
1. Martin Gilbert, Second World War , 130.
2. Simon Singh, The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-Breaking (London:Fourth Estate, 2000), 157.
3. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/Historical/hinsley.html.
4. www.mkheritage.co.uk/bpt/women/wrensOS.html.
5. Gordon Corrigan, The Second World War , 137.
6. Ibid , 167.
7. William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (London: Secker & Warburg, 1959), 964.
8. Gordon Corrigan, The Second World War , 153.
The United States Enters the War (pages 3037)
1. John Keegan, The Second World War , 255.
2. Derrik Mercer, Chronicle of the Second World War , 248.
3. John Keegan, The Second World War , 261.
4. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-05/26/content_881003.htm.
5. Yuki Tanaka, Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II (Boulder: WestviewPress, 1996), 2.
6. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/bataandeathmarch.htm.
7. John Campbell (ed.), The Experience of World War II (London: Harrap, 1989), 125.
8. http://www.mansell.com/powresources/camplists/death_rr/movements_1.html.
9. Max Arthur, Forgotten Voices of the Second World War (London: Ebury Press, 2007),147.
10. http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/lesson_plans/japanese_internment/index.
11. Gordon Corrigan, The Second World War , 512.
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