Everything World War II Book by White, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Top Ten Things You Should Know about WWII Introduction Part One: Setting the Stage

1. Prelude to War

Hitler’s Rise to Power Germany in Disarray Fascism Takes Hold of Italy Japanese Aggression American Isolationism Isolationism Following the First World War

2. Fanning the Flames

Germany Rearms Hitler Takes Austria Czechoslovakia Divided and Conquered Hitler Pushes East Hitler Takes Denmark and Norway The Fall of France Mussolini Joins the Fray The Axis Expands Japan Extends Its Military Might

3. The United States Enters the War

The Attack on Pearl Harbor A Well-Planned Attack Pearl Harbor Investigations The American Response Hawaii under Martial Law The American Internment Camps

Part Two: The Major Battles

4. Europe

The Battle of the Atlantic The Battle of Britain Germany’s Soviet Campaign The Italian Campaign The Normandy Invasion The Battle of the Bulge The Soviet Offensive

5. North Africa

Egypt Germany Enters the African War Great Britain Reorganizes The Northwest Africa Campaign The North African Assault Allied Forces Work Together

6. The Pacific

The Battle of the Coral Sea Wake Island Midway The Philippines The Battle of Guadalcanal The Battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Okinawa

Part Three: The Major Players

7. The Political Leaders

Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Winston Churchill Emperor Hirohito Hideki Tojo Franklin Delano Roosevelt Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Harry S Truman

8. The Military Leaders

Isoroku Yamamoto Erwin Rommel Dwight Eisenhower Bernard Montgomery George Patton Douglas MacArthur Chester Nimitz Masaharu Homma Karl Dönitz George Marshall William Halsey

9. Other Prominent Figures

Adolf Eichmann Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Eleanor Roosevelt Chiang Kai-shek Marshal Philippe Pétain Henry L. Stimson Anne Frank Oskar Schindler

Part Four: On the Battlefront

10. Ground Weapons

Personal Guns Artillery Antiaircraft Weapons Tanks Land Mines Other Land Weapons

11. Air Weapons

Bombers Bombs Fighter Planes Gliders Guided Missiles and Rockets Airships

12. Weapons and Vessels at Sea

Aircraft Carriers Battleships Destroyers Submarines Other Sea Weapons Liberty Ships

13. The Horrors of War

Battlefield Conditions Casualties Suffer the Children Prisoners of War Battlefield Injuries and Medicine

14. The Axis Giants Fall

Germany Surrenders Japan Surrenders

Part Five: Nazism and the Holocaust

15. German Anti-Semitism

The Need for a Scapegoat Legislated Genocide Jews in German-Occupied Lands The Final Solution Concentration Camps Secrets and Propaganda

16. The War Crimes Trials

The Nuremberg Trials Nazi Loyalists Trial Results The Tokyo Trials The Doctors’ Trial

Part Six: America During the War Years

17. Life at Home

Hard Times on the Home Soil Rationing War Bonds The Role of Propaganda

18. The Roles of Women During the War

Women Called to Morale Duty The USO Women at Work Women at War

19. The War in the Media—During and After

On the Big Screen Animation Chronicling the War The Influence of Comic Art

20. Rebuilding the World

The Yalta Conference Brief Friends The United Nations The Postwar Pacific Korea Vietnam

Appendix A: Resources Appendix B: The Holocaust in Numbers Appendix C: World War II Timeline Appendix D: Awards and Decorations

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