A History of the World From the 20th to the 21st Century
Mussolini with offers including the neutralisation of Gibraltar and Suez as well as the demilitarisa- tion of Malta. But Churchi ...
tamely surrendered were finished. Any negotia- tions, furthermore, would undermine the nation’s morale. Churchill was supported ...
Chamberlain was incapacitated in the summer of 1940. Inoperable cancer was diagnosed. It was Chamberlain’s terminal illness and ...
fleet at Mers-el-Kebir on 3 July, after the French admiral refused a British ultimatum requiring him to follow one of four cours ...
The Germans never won what Churchill called the battle of the Atlantic. On land Britain at first won spectacular victor- ies in ...
and neutral – halfway across the Atlantic, and was occupying Iceland. In August 1941 Roosevelt met Churchill off Newfoundland an ...
undoubtedly severely shaken by Hitler’s victory in France, but he did not show it. On the contrary, he was in June 1940 unexpect ...
The Pacific War grew out of Japan’s China War renewed in 1937. It was essentially the future of China that four years later led ...
national pride. No Japanese must accept the insulting, inferior role the Western imperialists assigned to them. Only by showing ...
1 Chungking Peking Tokyo Nanking Hong Kong Dec. 1941 Guam Japanese Empire and occupied land to 1938 Japanese conquests until 194 ...
endeavours to preserve peace’ in his well-known ‘Quarantine’ speech in Chicago on 5 October He called on the peace-loving natio ...
sent not involved in the European War or in the Sino-Japanese Conflict’. That article (three) pointed to the US. What was the pu ...
in Roosevelt’s mind. He was sensitive to American public opinion, which increasingly demanded tough measures, short of war, to r ...
that for Japan this was a question of survival. If Britain and the US, however, opposed the south- ern drive, the Japanese Empir ...
southward against the Dutch and British posses- sions. What was not clear was whether the Japanese intended to attack the US sim ...
The Second World War was the last world war to be fought with conventional weapons and the first to end with the use of the nucl ...
new type of warfare. The Germans, Japanese and Italians went beyond even what, in the Second World War, came to be considered le ...
sons, Hitler had been prepared to work with the Poles, and his view of them was quite favourable. The authoritarian Polish state ...
As Hitler’s own pep talks to the generals dur- ing the spring of 1941 show, on the eve of the attack on Russia, the ‘racial’ war ...
the German front. Hitler saw in this order ‘some advantages for us; it enables us to exterminate everyone who opposes us’. The a ...
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