Western Civilization - History Of European Society

58 0Chapter 29 another major advantage: It was more than twice as large as the Polish army, and twenty-two divisions could not s ...

Europe in an Age of Total War: World War II,1939–45 581 The Blitzkriegcame to western Europe in May 1940 with a German assault ( ...

582 Chapter 29 Belgians, who had endured more than four years of bloodletting without yielding in 1914–18, surrendered to the Na ...

Europe in an Age of Total War: World War II,1939–45 583 nearly half of the RAF, but they shot down German planes at a higher rat ...

584 Chapter 29 the British to retreat. By June 1942 the Afrika Korps was threatening to take the Suez Canal. Simultane- ously, I ...

Europe in an Age of Total War: World War II,1939–45 585 the Polish campaign), and the first rationing began in January 1940. Bri ...

586 Chapter 29 began the expansion of the co-prosperity sphere into Southeast Asia, where they hoped to obtain war materi- als. ...

Europe in an Age of Total War: World War II,1939–45 587 December 7, 1941. The attack crippled the U.S. Pacific Fleet, destroying ...

588 Chapter 29 break Leningrad. When the siege ended in early 1943, half of the population of Leningrad had died. The turning po ...

Europe in an Age of Total War: World War II,1939–45 589 British Empire, the Free French, and the United States to press into wes ...

59 0Chapter 29 Germany on V-E Day (Victory in Europe Day). Finish- ing the war in Asia thus fell to Roosevelt’s vice presi- dent ...

Europe in an Age of Total War: World War II,1939–45 591 the Asian war. The United States bombed the Japanese city of Hiroshima o ...

592 Chapter 29 known as the Final Solution (Endlösung). The Final Solu- tion was mass murder; approximately eleven million peopl ...

Europe in an Age of Total War: World War II,1939–45 593
Conference Diplomacy and Peace in Europe in 1945 No peace or treaty en ...

594 Chapter 29 partition of Germany. The Allies agreed that Germans must “atone for the terrible crimes committed under the lead ...

Europe in an Age of Total War: World War II,1939–45 595 ginning with an International Court of Justice. The charter of the UN ha ...

CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. The Population of Twentieth-Century Europe III. Economic Structures: The Decline of Agricult ...

The Social and Economic Structure of Contemporary Europe597
The Population of Twentieth- Century Europe At the beginning of th ...

598Chapter 30 The twentieth century saw the trend toward urban- ization continue. By 1950 the majority of the popula- tion of we ...

The Social and Economic Structure of Contemporary Europe599 monarchical armies, but most emigrants left for greater economic opp ...