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Axis Powers World War II The Allied Powers Hostilities Commence The European Front ] The Pacific War World War II Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
The Allies Gain Ground World War II(continued) The End of the War Impact of War World II ] World War II Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II > Axis Powers Axis Powers • Hitler's Germany • Italy Under Mussolini • Japanese Expansion Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/world-war-ii-1382/axis-powers-1383/
World War II > The Allied Powers The Allied Powers • The USSR • France at the End of the Interwar Period • The United Kingdom and Appeasement • American Isolationism Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/world-war-ii-1382/the-allied-powers-1388/
World War II > Hostilities Commence Hostilities Commence • September 1, 1939 • German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship • Dunkirk and Vichy France Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/world-war-ii-1382/hostilities-commence-1392/
World War II > The European Front The European Front • The Battle of Britain • Conflict in the Atlantic • Operation Barbarossa • The Holocaust Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/world-war-ii-1382/the-european-front-1396/
World War II > The Pacific War The Pacific War • Pearl Harbor • The Battle of Midway • The Guadalcanal Campaign Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/world-war-ii-1382/the-pacific-war-1401/
World War II > The Allies Gain Ground The Allies Gain Ground • The Battle of Stalingrad • The North African Front • The Sicilian Campaign • The Tehran Conference Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/world-war-ii-1382/the-allies-gain-ground-1405/
World War II > The End of the War The End of the War • The Invasion of Normandy • The Yalta Conference • The Allied Push to Berlin • Okinawa and Iwo Jima • The Potsdam Conference • The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/world-war-ii-1382/the-end-of-the-war-1410/
World War II > Impact of War World II Impact of War World II • Terms of Surrender • Casualties of World War II • The Atlantic Charter • The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com www.boundless.com/world-history/textbooks/boundless-world-history-textbook/world-war-ii-1382/impact-of-war-world-ii-1417/
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World War II Key terms • "typhoon of steel"American nickname for the battle of Okinawa, named for the ferocity of the fighting, the intensity of Japanese kamikaze attacks, and the sheer numbers of Allied ships and armored vehicles that assaulted the island. • "unworthy of life"In German, "Lebensunwertes Leben," this term was a Nazi designation for the segments of the populace which, according to the Nazi regime of the time, had no right to live. • Adolf HitlerA German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945; he initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939 and was a central figure of the Holocaust. • AnschlussThe Nazi propaganda term for the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938. • antisemitismHostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. • appeasementA diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. • atomic bombA nuclear weapon that derives its explosive energy from nuclear fission reactions. • Battle of BerlinThe final major offensive of the European theatre of World War II when the Soviet Red Army invaded Berlin, Germany. • Battle of MoscowThe name given by Soviet historians to two periods of strategically significant fighting on a 600 km (370 mi) sector of the Eastern Front during World War II. It took place between October 1941 and January 1942 and was part of the German Operation Barbarossa. • Battle of the AtlanticThe longest continuous military campaign in World War II, running from 1939 to the defeat of Germany in 1945; at its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after the declaration of war, and Germany's subsequent counter-blockade. • Battle of the BorderRefers to the battles that occurred in the first days of the German invasion of Poland in September, 1939; the series of battles ended in a German victory as Polish forces were either destroyed or forced to retreat. • Benito MussoliniAn Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943; he ruled constitutionally until 1925, when he dropped all pretense of democracy and set up a legal dictatorship. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II • Big ThreeThe leaders of the main three countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War: the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, namely Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin. • BlackshirtsThe paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party in Italy and after 1923, an all-volunteer militia of the Kingdom of Italy. • BolsheviksThe founding and ruling political party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a communist party organized on the basis of democratic centralism. • Clement AttleeA British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, taking over from Winston Churchill at the end of World War II. • D-DayThe landing operations on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, the first day of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. • Declaration of Liberated EuropeA declaration as created by Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin during the Yalta Conference. It was a promise that allowed the people of Europe "to create democratic institutions of their own choice." • denazificationAn Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of any remnants of the National Socialist ideology (Nazism). It was carried out by removing from positions of power and influence those who had been Nazi Party members and disbanding or rendering impotent the organizations associated with Nazism. • Dunkirk evacuationThe evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between May 26 and June 4, 1940, during World War II. • EinsatzgruppenParamilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II. • Europe firstAlso known as Germany first, the key element of the grand strategy agreed upon by the United States and the United Kingdom during World War II. According to this policy, the United States and the United Kingdom would use the preponderance of their resources to subdue Nazi Germany in Europe first. Simultaneously, they would fight a holding action against Japan in the Pacific, using fewer resources. After the defeat of Germany—considered the greatest threat to Great Britain—all Allied forces could be concentrated against Japan. • Eva BraunThe longtime companion of Adolf Hitler and for less than 40 hours, his wife. • Executive Order 9066A United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones, clearing the way for the deportation of Japanese Americans and Italian-Americans to internment camps. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II • extermination campsCamps designed and built by Nazi Germany during World War II to systematically kill millions of Jews, Slavs, and others considered "sub-human," primarily by gassing but also in mass executions and through extreme work under starvation conditions. • fascistA form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe, whose proponents believe that liberal democracy is obsolete and regard the complete mobilization of society under a totalitarian one-party state as necessary to prepare a nation for armed conflict and respond effectively to economic difficulties. • Final SolutionThe Nazi plan for the total extermination of the Jews during World War II, carried out in the period known as the Holocaust. • First Five-Year PlanA list of economic goals created by General Secretary Joseph Stalin and based on his policy of Socialism in One Country, implemented between 1928 and 1932, that focused on the forced collectivization of agriculture. • genocideThe intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group) in whole or in part. • German Instrument of SurrenderThe legal document that established the unconditional surrender of Germany in World War II. • German-Soviet Frontier TreatyAlso known as the The German–Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Demarcation, this treaty was a secret clause amended on the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact on September 28, 1939, by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union after their joint invasion and occupation of sovereign Poland. • Gleiwitz incidentA false flag operation by Nazi forces posing as Poles on August 31, 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, Germany on the eve of World War II in Europe. The goal was to use the staged attack as a pretext for invading Poland. • Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity SphereAn imperialist propaganda concept created and promulgated for occupied Asian populations during the first third of the Shōwa era by the government and military of the Empire of Japan. It extended further than East Asia and promoted the cultural and economic unity of Northeast Asians, Southeast Asians, and Oceanians. It also declared the intention to create a self-sufficient "bloc of Asian nations led by the Japanese and free of Western powers." • gulagThe government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labour camp systems during the Stalin era, from the 1930s until the 1950s. • International Bill of Human RightsThe name given to UN General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) and two international treaties established by the United Nations. It consists of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted in 1948), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) with its two Optional Protocols, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966). • island hoppingA military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan to bypass heavily fortified Japanese positions and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well-defended but were capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II • Joseph GoebbelsA German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945; one of Adolf Hitler's close associates and most devoted followers, he was known for his skills in public speaking and his deep and virulent antisemitism, which led to his support of the extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. • Joseph StalinThe leader and effective dictator of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953. • Kellogg–Briand PactA 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve "disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them." • Lend-Lease ActA program under which the United States supplied Free France, the United Kingdom, the Republic of China, and later the USSR and other Allied nations with food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945. • LuftwaffeThe aerial warfare branch of the German Wehrmacht (armed forces) during World War II. • Maginot LineA line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations that France constructed on the French side of its borders with Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg during the 1930s. • Maginot LineA line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations that France constructed on the French side of its borders with Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg during the 1930s. • Manchurian IncidentA staged event engineered by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China, known as Manchuria. • Manhattan ProjectA research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. • Manhattan ProjectA research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. • March on RomeA march by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party came to power in the Kingdom of Italy. • Mein KampfAn autobiography by the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler, in which he outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany; German for "my struggle." Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II • Molotov–Ribbentrop PactA neutrality pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed in Moscow on August 23, 1939. • Munich AgreementA settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined. • Nanking MassacreAn episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking, then the capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War. • Nanking MassacreAn episode of mass murder and rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking. • Nazi PartyA political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that practiced the ideology of Nazism, a form of fascism that incorporates scientific racism and antisemitism. • Nuremberg LawsAntisemitic laws in Nazi Germany, which declared that only those of German or related blood were eligible to be Reich citizens; the remainder, mainly Jews, were classed as state subjects without citizenship rights. • Operation BarbarossaThe code name for Nazi Germany's World War II invasion of the Soviet Union, which began on June 22, 1941. • Operation DownfallThe code name for the Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II. • Operation HuskyCodename for the allied invasion of Sicily in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers. • Operation MincemeatA successful British disinformation plan during the Second World War, which convinced the German high command that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia in 1943 instead of Sicily, the actual objective. • Operation OverlordThe code name for the Invasion of Normandy, the Allied operation that launched the successful invasion of German-occupied Western Europe during World War II. • Operation Sea LionNazi Germany's code name for a provisionally proposed invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain in the Second World War. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II • Pacific TheaterA major theater of the war between the Allies and Japan. It was defined by the Allied powers' Pacific Ocean Area command, which included most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands and excluded mainland Asia, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, Borneo, Australia, most of the Territory of New Guinea, and the western part of the Solomon Islands. • Paris Peace TreatiesA series of document wherein victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of peace treaties with minor Axis powers, namely Italy (though it was considered a major Axis Power), Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland, following the end of World War II in 1945. • parityFunctional equivalence, as in the weaponry or military strength of adversaries. • pincerA military maneuver in which forces simultaneously attack both flanks (sides) of an enemy formation. • Popular FrontAn alliance of left-wing movements during the interwar period, including the French Communist Party (PCF), the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), and the Radical and Socialist Party. • Potsdam DeclarationA statement that called for the surrender of all Japanese armed forces during World War II. • reparationsPayments intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war. • Royal Air ForceThe United Kingdom's aerial warfare force; formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, it is the oldest independent air force in the world. • self-determinationA cardinal principle in modern international law that states that nations, based on respect for the principle of equal rights and fair equality of opportunity, have the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international political status with no interference. • The BlitzThe name borrowed by the British press and applied to the heavy and frequent bombing raids carried out over Britain in 1940 and 1941 during the Second World War. • Treaty of VersaillesOne of the peace treaties at the end of World War I, which required "Germany [to] accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage" during the war. • Tripartite PactA defensive military alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II • Tripartite PactAn agreement between Germany, Japan, and Italy signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940 that created the alliance known as the Axis Powers of WWII. • Tunisia CampaignA series of battles that took place in Tunisia during the North African Campaign of the Second World War, between Axis and Allied forces. • U-boatMilitary submarines, especially used by the German navy in WWI and WWII; the anglicised version of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Unterseeboot, literally "undersea boat." • UltraThe designation adopted by British military intelligence in June 1941 for wartime signals intelligence obtained by breaking high-level encrypted enemy radio and teleprinter communications at the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park. • unconditional surrenderA surrender in which no guarantees are given to the surrendering party. • United NationsAn intergovernmental organization to promote international cooperation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on October 24, 1945 after World War II to prevent another such conflict. • United Nations CharterThe foundational treaty of the United Nations, signed October 24, 1945. • Universal Declaration of Human RightsA declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948, the first global expression of what many believe are the rights to which all human beings are inherently entitled. • Vichy FranceThe common name of the French State during World War II, specifically the southern, unoccupied "Free Zone," as Germany militarily occupied northern France. • WehrmachtThe unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1946, including army (Heer), navy (Kriegsmarine), and air force (Luftwaffe). • Weimar RepublicAn unofficial designation for the German state between 1919 and 1933. • WeltanschauungenA particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II • Yalta ConferenceA meeting in February 1945 between the three heads of the main Allied forces in WWII, intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com
World War II Auschwitz Hungarian Jews being selected by Nazis to be sent to the gas chamber at Auschwitz concentration camp. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Selection_Birkenau_ramp.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#/media/File:Selection_Birkenau_ramp.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Nuremberg Laws Racial classification chart based on the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Nuremberg_laws.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#/media/File:Nuremberg_laws.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II March on Rome Mussolini and the Quadrumviri during the March on Rome in 1922. From left to right: Michele Bianchi, Emilio De Bono, Italo Balbo, and Cesare Maria De Vecchi. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."March_on_Rome.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#/media/File:March_on_Rome.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Rape of Nanking The corpses of massacred victims from the Nanking Massacre on the shore of the Qinhuai River with a Japanese soldier standing nearby. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Nanking_bodies_1937.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre#/media/File:Nanking_bodies_1937.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II USS Yorktown Yorktown at the moment of impact of a torpedo from a Nakajima B5N of Lieutenant Hashimoto's 2nd fleet. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."USS_Yorktown_hit-740px.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway#/media/File:USS_Yorktown_hit-740px.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Guadalcanal Campaign A U.S. Marine patrol crosses the Matanikau River in September 1942. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."GuadPatrol.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalcanal_Campaign#/media/File:GuadPatrol.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Iwo Jima Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal, became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and came to be regarded in the United States as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_JimaView on Boundless.com
World War II Battle of Berlin After the battle, Soviet soldiers hoist the Soviet flag on the balcony of the Hotel Adlon in Berlin Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R77767,_Berlin,_Rotarmisten_Unter_den_Linden.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R77767,_Berlin,_Rotarmisten_Unter_den_Linden.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Potsdam Conference The "Big Three": Clement Attlee, Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, circa 28 July - 1 August 1945 Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."640px-Potsdam_big_three.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam_Agreement#/media/File:Potsdam_big_three.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Letter to Stalin Lavrentiy Beria's January 1940 letter to Stalin asking permission to execute 346 "enemies of the CPSU and of the Soviet authorities" who conducted "counter-revolutionary, right-Trotskyite plotting and spying activities." Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Execute_346_Berias_letter_to_Politburo.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#/media/File:Execute_346_Berias_letter_to_Politburo.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Munich Agreement From left to right: Chamberlain, Daladier, Hitler, Mussolini, and Ciano pictured before signing the Munich Agreement, which gave the Sudetenland to Germany. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R69173,_Münchener_Abkommen,_Staatschefs.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement#/media/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-R69173,_Munchener_Abkommen,_Staatschefs.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Atlantic Charter Winston Churchill's edited copy of the final draft of the Atlantic Charter. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Atlanticcharter2.png."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Charter#/media/File:Atlanticcharter2.pngView on Boundless.com
World War II Operation Torch American soldiers land near Algiers. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Near_Algiers,_"Torch"_troops_hit_the_beaches_behind_a_large_American_flag_"Left"_hoping_for_the_French_Army_not_fire..._-_NARA_-_195516.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Torch#/media/File:Near_Algiers,_%22Torch%22_troops_hit_the_beaches_behind_a_large_American_flag_%22Left%22_hoping_for_the_French_Army_not_fire..._-_NARA_-_195516.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Battle of El Alamein, 1942 British infantry advances through the dust and smoke of the battle. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."El_Alamein_1942_-_British_infantry.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Desert_Campaign#/media/File:El_Alamein_1942_-_British_infantry.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Universal Declaration of Human Rights Eleanor Roosevelt with the Spanish language version of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."EleanorRooseveltHumanRights.png."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights#/media/File:EleanorRooseveltHumanRights.pngView on Boundless.com
World War II Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki Nagasaki, before and after the atomic bomb detonation Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Nagasaki_1945_-_Before_and_after_(adjusted).jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#/media/File:Nagasaki_1945_-_Before_and_after_(adjusted).jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Portrait of Stalin Stalin depicted in the style of Socialist Realism. Painting by Isaak Brodsky. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Isaak_Brodsky_stalin02.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin#/media/File:Isaak_Brodsky_stalin02.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II "No Foreign Entanglements" Protest march to prevent American involvement in World War II before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Noentanglements.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_non-interventionism#/media/File:Noentanglements.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II French Enter Essen French cavalry entering Essen during the Occupation of the Ruhr. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."French_enter_Essen.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France#/media/File:French_enter_Essen.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Battle of Britain Nazi Heinkel He 111 bombers during the Battle of Britain Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Heinkel_He_111_during_the_Battle_of_Britain.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain#/media/File:Heinkel_He_111_during_the_Battle_of_Britain.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II The Blitz Office workers make their way to work through debris after a heavy air raid by the German Luftwaffe. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Bomb_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_HU36157.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blitz#/media/File:Bomb_Damage_in_London_during_the_Second_World_War_HU36157.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Nazi Flag National flag of Germany, 1935–45 Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikimedia Commons."Flag_of_the_German_Reich_(1935–1945).svg.png."CC BY-SA 3.0https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_German_Reich_(1935%E2%80%931945).svgView on Boundless.com
World War II Hitler and Mussolini On 25 October 1936, an Axis was declared between Italy and Germany. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Hitlermusso2_edit.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#/media/File:Hitlermusso2_edit.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II The Liberation of Bergen-Belsen Concentration SS female camp guards remove prisoners' bodies from lorries and carry them to a mass grave, inside the German Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945 Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."The_Liberation_of_Bergen-belsen_Concentration_Camp,_April_1945_BU4031.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II#Axis_collapse.2C_Allied_victory_.281944.E2.80.9345.29View on Boundless.com
World War II Adolf Hitler Hitler became Germany's head of state, with the title of Führer und Reichskanzler, in 1934. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikimedia Commons."Adolf_Hitler-1933.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolf_Hitler-1933.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II Anschluss Immediately after the Anschluss, Vienna’s Jews were forced to wash pro-independence slogans from the city’s pavements. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."03741Vienna1938.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss#/media/File:03741Vienna1938.jpgView on Boundless.com
World War II The Invasion of Poland This map shows the beginning of World War II in September 1939 in a European context. The Second Polish Republic, one of the three original allies of World War II, was invaded and divided between the Third Reich and Soviet Union, acting together in line with the secret protocol of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, dividing Central and Eastern Europe between the two countries. The Polish allies of that time were France and Great Britain. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."Second_World_War_Europe.png."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Poland#/media/File:Second_World_War_Europe.pngView on Boundless.com
World War II Battle of the Atlantic Officers on the bridge of a destroyer, escorting a large convoy of ships tokeep a sharp look out for attacking enemy submarines during the Battle of the Atlantic, October 1941. Free to share, print, make copies and changes. Get yours at www.boundless.com Wikipedia."600px-Officers_on_the_bridge.jpg."CC BY-SA 3.0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Atlantic#/media/File:Officers_on_the_bridge.jpgView on Boundless.com