Chapter Thirty-Seven: New Conflagrations: World War II

1. Chapter Thirty-Seven: New Conflagrations: World War II

2. Chapter Thirty-Seven:New Conflagrations: World War II • Origins of World War II • Japan’s War in China • The Rape of Nanjing • Chinese Resistance • European Aggression • Italy – “adventures” in Africa • Germany – Rearmament and the Spanish Civil War • Appeasement and “Peace for our time” • The German-Soviet non-agression pact

3. Chapter Thirty-Seven:New Conflagrations: World War II • Total War: The World Under Fire • Blitzkrieg: Germany Conquers Europe • The invasion of Poland • The Fall of France • The Battle of Britain • The German Invasion of the Soviet Union • Operation Barbarossa • The Siege of Stalingrad

4. High tide of Axis expansion in Europe and north Africa, 1942-1943

5. Chapter Thirty-Seven:New Conflagrations: World War II • Total War: The World Under Fire • Battles in Asia and the Pacific • Pearl Harbor • Japanese Victories • The Battle of Midway • Defeat of the Axis Powers • Allied Victory in Europe • Turning the Tide in the Pacific • Iwo Jima and Okinawa • Atomic Bombs and Japanese Surrender

6. World War II in Asia and the Pacific

7. Chapter Thirty-Seven:New Conflagrations: World War II • Life During Wartime • Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance • Exploitation • Collaboration • Resistance • Atrocities • The Holocaust • The Final Solution • Jewish Resistance

8. The Holocaust in Europe, 1933-1945

9. Chapter Thirty-Seven:New Conflagrations: World War II • Life During Wartime • Woman and the War • Women’s Roles • Comfort Women

10. Chapter Thirty-Seven:New Conflagrations: World War II • Neither Peace nor War • Postwar Settlements and Cold War • The Origins of the Cold War • Yalta and Potsdam • Postwar Territorial Divisions • The Truman Doctrine • Global Reconstruction and the United Nations • The Marshall Plan • NATO and the Warsaw Pact • The United Nations