A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

1092 Ch. 26 • World War II Devastation in Hamburg (left) and Stuttgart (right) after Allied bombing of Germany. Balkans. The Red ...

The Tide Turns 1093 September 1944. Following a popular insurrection, the Soviet Union con­ trolled the resulting coalition gove ...

1094 Ch. 26 • World War II The Germans slowly retreated behind one river after the next, with both sides taking large losses. Th ...

The Tide Turns 1095 The D-Day Invasion of France At Teheran, Stalin and Roosevelt convinced Churchill to accept a plan for the i ...

1096 Ch. 26 • World War II U.S. troops wading ashore at Utah Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944 after the first bloody assault. bouts ...

Allied Victory 1097 damage. The first jet- and rocket-propelled fighter planes, the former reach­ ing speeds of 500 miles per ho ...

1098 Ch. 26 • World War II soldiers in the Red Army enacted terrible revenge against the Germans, encouraged by Soviet propagand ...

Allied Victory 1099 during the war). Churchill and Roosevelt also went along with Stalin’s insistence that the Soviet Union keep ...

1100 Ch. 26 • World War II now agreed that Germany must end the war. As Soviet tanks drew near on the night of April 28—29, 1945 ...

Conclusion 1101 islands of Japan itself. With the American fleet off Okinawa confronting suicide missions by Japanese pilots, it ...

1102 Ch. 26 • World War II (Left) A mushroom cloud envelops Nagasaki after the U.S. Army’s deployment of an atomic bomb. (Right) ...

Conclusion 1103 must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization.” After World War ...

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Part Seven Europe in the Post-War Era Following the devastation of World War II, Europe rebuilt under the growing shadow of the ...

1106 Part 7 • Europe in the Post-War Era from the ordeal of total war, and the relative peace and new pros­ perity engendered a ...

Europe in the Post-War Era 1107 merits for reform arose in the countries of the Eastern European bloc, beginning in Poland and H ...

1108 Part 7 • Europe in the Post-War Era in their adopted countries, which have been subject to xenopho­ bia. Even as Europe now ...

REBUILDING DIVIDED EUROPE The Second World War ended with little of the optimism that had followed the conclusion of the First W ...

1110 Ch. 27 • Rebuilding Divided Europe In the Wake of Devastation Putting Europe back together proved a daunting task. By the t ...

In the Wake of Devastation 1111 the north; American and French armies held southern Germany; and the four powers divided Berlin. ...