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

1086 Ch. 26 • World War II The bomb exploded, wounding Hitler slightly. Those implicated in the plot were quickly arrested and s ...

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1088 Ch. 26 • World War II In the meantime, Germany’s day-to-day operation of the war effort remained chaotic, as ministries, mi ...

The Tide Turns 1089 Free French troops attacking in the North African desert, 1942. largest concentration of German troops might ...

1090 Ch. 26 • World War II French Committee of National Liberation as France’s legitimate government. But Churchill, an old impe ...

The Tide Turns 1091 Leningrad’s fall could never be sent out. Further defeats in the north made Germany’s drive to the Soviet oi ...

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 ...