World War 2 History Guide: Key Events, Battles & Real Historical Photos

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Help with History: World War 2 is a visual introduction to the key events and turning points of the Second World War.

The guide begins with the tensions that followed World War I and the rise of Nazi Germany before moving through the invasion of Poland, the fall of France, Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, Midway, North Africa, Stalingrad, Italy, D-Day, the liberation of Europe, the Battle of the Bulge, Germany’s surrender and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Each topic combines a concise explanation with key facts, important dates, a “Why It Matters” section and an archival historical photograph.

Description

A Clear Introduction to World War II History

World War II was a global conflict fought mainly between 1939 and 1945, involving countries and battlefields across Europe, North Africa, Asia, the Atlantic and the Pacific.

The book introduces the principal Axis powers — Germany, Italy and Japan — and the major Allied powers, including Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, China and France. It also emphasizes that the war affected civilians on an enormous scale through bombing, occupation, displacement, starvation, persecution and mass murder.

Understand the Road to World War 2

The guide begins before 1939.

It explains the importance of:

the Treaty of Versailles
economic instability
the Great Depression
Hitler’s rise to power
German rearmament
the remilitarization of the Rhineland
the annexation of Austria
the Munich Agreement
German expansion into Czechoslovakia
Italian aggression
Japanese expansion
the Nazi-Soviet Pact

This provides readers with the context needed to understand why the invasion of Poland became the beginning of a much larger European war.

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