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

1046 Ch. 25 • Economic: Digression and Dictatorship century, including the American novelist Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bel ...

The Spanish Civil War 1047 maps in a spring 1937 ground battle. The Italians fared somewhat better in the air, where they faced ...

1048 Ch. 25 • Economic Depression and Dictatorship imprisoned. Bloody reprisals against loyalists in Spain began immediately, an ...

CHAPTER 26 WORLD WAR II For the second time in just twenty-five years, a European con­ flict became a world war. It would be eve ...

1050 Ch. 26 • World War II would divide Eastern Europe between them. Attempting to avoid war at all costs, Britain and France ac ...

The Coming of World War II 1051 Prisoners of the war between China and Japan over the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, 1931. nese ...

1052 Ch. 26 • World War 11 he viewed German ambitions toward the German-speaking parts of Austria and Czechoslovakia, as well as ...

The Coming of World War II 1053 attack. But the Soviets refused to act unless joined by France, and France refused to act withou ...

1054 Ch. 26 • World War 11 Map 26.1 German and Italian Expansion, 1935-1939 Aggression by Germany and Italy against their neighb ...

The Coming of World War II^1055 Neville Chamberlain promises “peace in our time” after his return from Munich in September 1938. ...

1056 Ch. 26 • World War II Looking east, the euphoric Hitler now demanded that Lithuania relin­ quish the Baltic port of Memel, ...

The War in Europe Begins 1057 unprepared for war, and now tied by a formal alliance to Hitler, the Duce had painted his country ...

1058 Ch. 26 • World War II Norway. Hitler next turned his attention to the west, invading France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, ...

The War in Europe Begins 1059 From the east, Soviet armies invaded Poland on September 17. They did so with Hitler’s blessing, u ...

1060 Ch. 26 • World War II Map 26.2 The German and Italian Advance, 1939-1942 The opening of the war included advances by the Ge ...

The War in Europe Begins 1061 Army invaded. Badly outnumbered Finnish soldiers fought bravely in sub­ zero temperatures, sometim ...

1062 Ch. 26 • World War II of their forces and—at least some—in the Third Republic itself. French tanks were as good as those of ...

The War in Europe Begins 1063 Hitler takes a triumphant stroll through Paris in June 1940. army occupied the capital on June 14. ...

1064 Ch. 26 • World War 11 Fearing a German attack, the British government interned German sub­ jects, including some of the 50, ...

A Global War 1065 A Global War World War II rapidly spread to almost all corners of the globe. Total war absorbed national resou ...