The History Book

279 Vladimir Lenin addresses his troops in Moscow’s Red Square in 1919, during the civil war that followed the October Revolutio ...

280 See also: The Young Turk Revolution 260–61 ■ The Battle of Passchendaele 270–75 ■ The Reichstag Fire 284–85 ■ Nazi invasion ...

281 See also: The October Revolution 276–79 ■ Nazi invasion of Poland 286–93 ■ The Berlin Airlift 296–97 ■ The fall of the Berli ...

282 ANY LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN THE ECONOMIC FUTURE OF THE UNITED STATES IS FOOLISH THE WALL STREET CRASH (1929) O ver six despera ...

283 See also: The California Gold Rush 248–49 ■ The Treaty of Versailles 280 ■ The Reichstag Fire 284–85 ■ The global financial ...

284 THE TRUTH IS THAT MEN ARE TIRED OF LIBERTY THE REICHSTAG FIRE (1933) W hen fire broke out at the Reichstag, the German parli ...

285 The Reichstag Fire is said to have burned so fiercely that flames could be seen for miles around. Hitler blamed the communis ...

IN STARTING AND WAGING A WAR IT IS NOT RIGHT THAT MATTERS BUT VICTORY NAZI INVASION OF POLAND (1939–1945) US_286-293_Invasion-of ...

IN STARTING AND WAGING A WAR IT IS NOT RIGHT THAT MATTERS BUT VICTORY NAZI INVASION OF POLAND (1939–1945) US_286-293_Invasion-of ...

288 I n August 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact, also secretly agreeing to invade and then d ...

289 Adolf Hitler watches a victory parade in Warsaw following the invasion of Poland. He and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin agreed ...

290 The West intervenes Hitler’s invasion of Poland, which began on September 1, 1939, finally forced Britain and France into a ...

291 was the first real check on Hitler’s progress, but Britain alone could not fight a power that now had control of almost the ...

292 NAZI INVASION OF POLAND hardships. German tanks plowed through the Red Army defenses. Prisoners of war were shot or left to ...

293 Hiroshima and Nagasaki American planes dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan ...

294 THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE JEWISH QUESTION THE WANNSEE CONFERENCE (1942) O n January 20, 1942, 15 members of the Nazi Party a ...

295 Auschwitz, in southern Poland, has become a byword for the Holocaust. Those prisoners subjected to forced labor were summari ...

296 ALL WE DID WAS FLY AND SLEEP THE BERLIN AIRLIFT (1948) A t the Yalta and Potsdam conferences in 1945, the wartime Allies agr ...

297 See also: Russia emancipates the serfs 243 ■ The October Revolution 276–79 ■ Stalin assumes power 281 ■ Nazi invasion of Pol ...

298 AT THE STROKE OF THE MIDNIGHT HOUR WHEN THE WORLD SLEEPS INDIA WILL AWAKE TO LIFE AND FREEDOM INDIAN INDEPENDENCE AND PARTIT ...