DK - World War II Map by Map
PEACE IN THE PACIFIC 261 Ceremony in Tokyo Bay Sailors and soldiers crowd the decks of the USS Missouri to witness the Japanese ...
262 ENDGAME AND AFTERMATH 1944–1955 THE AFTERMATH OF WAR The most destructive war in history, World War II was followed by a nuc ...
THE AFTERMATH OF WAR 263 and USSR (the “superpowers”) engaged in a nuclear arms race, and the US fought the Chinese Communist tr ...
264 ENDGAME AND AFTERMATH 1945–1955 ▷ The Berlin airlift A plane delivers supplies to blockaded West Berlin in 1949. At the peak ...
THE IRON CURTAIN 265 North Sea Baltic Sea M e d it e rr an ea n Se a A T L A N T IC O C E A N B la ck Sea ESTONIA L A T V I A LI ...
266 ENDGAME AND AFTERMATH 1944–1955 Yellow (^) Sea Ye llo w^ R iv er Ya ng tz e^ Huai Xi Brahm aputra Lake Poyang Songhua Hainan ...
THE CHINESE CIVIL WAR 267 Apr–Jun 1946 GMD troops seize a corridor of cities from Jinzhou to Changchun, but a cease-fire leaves ...
268 ENDGAME AND AFTERMATH 1944–1955 1 Jul 4, 1946 The Philippines archipelago becomes an independent republic. Apr 18–24, 1955 N ...
DECOLONIZATION OF ASIA 269 5 Apr 28, 1952 Japan’s sovereignty is restored and the Allied occupation officially ends. DECOLONIZAT ...
270 ENDGAME AND AFTERMATH 1944–1955 New arrivals Refugees from Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Tunisia prepare to go ashore at Haifa ...
THE CREATION OF ISRAEL 271 After World War I, Britain controlled Palestine under the terms of the League of Nations mandate and ...
272 ENDGAME AND AFTERMATH 1944–1955 NEPAL THAILAND BURMA PHILIPPINES KOREA JAPAN MALAYA D UT CH (^) EAST INDIE S ETHIOPIA SOUTH ...
THE PRICE OF WAR 273 NEPAL THAILAND BURMA PHILIPPINES KOREA JAPAN MALAYA D UT CH (^) EAST INDIE S ETHIOPIA SOUTH AFRICA IRAQ IRA ...
274 ENDGAME AND AFTERMATH 194 4 –1955 Most Allied nations have an annual day of remembrance, including Veterans Day in the US, A ...
REMEMBRANCE 275 Holocaust memorial in Berlin Designed by US architect Peter Eisenman and consisting of 2,711 concrete blocks, Be ...
276 GLOSSARY Afrika Korps German expeditionary force, commanded by Erwin Rommel and sent to North Africa in spring 1941 to suppo ...
GLOSSARY 277 Kriegsmarine The name by which the German navy was known from 1935 until the end of the war. League of Nations Orga ...
278 INDEX Page numbers in bold indicate main treatments of a topic A Aachen, Battle of 201 Abbeville 49 Abd al-liah 82 Abyssinia ...
INDEX 279 colonial rule 121, 262, 268, 269 D-Day Landings 186–187 evacuation of Dunkirk 52–53 and Greece 76, 78, 79, 80, 81, 203 ...
280 INDEX siege of 194 Dutch East Indies 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 268, 269 E Eagle Attacks 58 EAM 176, 203 East Africa ...
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