xviii Contents
Chapter 26
the Jews • Hitler s Foreign Policy • The Fiihrer and
the Duce • Remilitarization and Rearmament
The Soviet Union under Stalin 1035 Five-Year Plans
- Soviet Culture • “Darkness at Noon”: Stalin’s Purges
The Spanish Civil War 1042 Social and Political
Instability • The Struggle between Loyalists and
Nationalists
Conclusion 1048
World War II 1049
The Coming of World War II 1049 The Axis •
German Aggression and British and French Appeasement
- The Unholy Alliance
The War in Europe Begins 1057 The German Invasion
of Poland • The “Phony War” • The War in the Frozen
North • The Fall of France • The Battle of Britain
A Global War 1065 Total War • Hitler’s Allies •
The German Invasion of Russia • Japan’s Attack on the
United States
Hitlers Europe 1073 The Nazi “New European
Order” • The “Final Solution” • Collaboration •
Resistance • Against Hitler in Germany
The Tide Turns 1086 Germany on the Defensive •
The War in North Africa • Hitler’s Russian Disaster •
The Allied Invasion of Italy • The Big Three • The
D-Day Invasion of France
Allied Victory 1097 Victory in Europe • The Defeat
of Japan
Conclusion 1101
PART SEVEN EUROPE IN THE
POST-WAR ERA
Chapter 2~7 Rebuilding Divided Europe 1 109
In the Wake of Devastation 1110 The Potsdam
Conference • The United Nations and Cold War
Alliances • Confronting Turmoil and Collaborators
