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	World War 2 Insightful Essays
		Causes of World War 2 - the root causes of World War 2.
		Kursk - the greatest tank battle of the war, and the last major German offensive in the East.
		Kamikaze pilots - suicide warfare in World War 2, and its military and cultural rationale.
	www.2worldwar2.com (833 words)

	BBC - History - World War Two
		Hitler's Invasion of Russia in World War Two - The rationale, by Laurence Rees
		The Legacy of World War Two: Decline, Rise and Recovery by William R Keylor
		War in the South China Sea: The Sinking of Force Z by Lieutenant Commander Geoffrey Brooke
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/worldwars/wwtwo (0 words)

	World War Two Advertising History-War Bonds [Ad*Access]
		Those who contributed space felt that they were doing more for the war effort than if they had been paid, while corporate sponsors of government ads and those organizations which produced their own advertisements for War Bonds proved their patriotism to the consumer public.
		The sale of war bonds provided a way in which patriotic attitudes and the spirit of sacrifice could be expressed, and became the primary way those on the home-front contributed to the national defense and war effort.
		The $15 billion goal of the Third War Loan meant that the record amount of bonds sold in a single month would have to be more than doubled, and over 40 million of America's 130 million citizens would have to invest in a $100 Series E Savings Bond.
	scriptorium.lib.duke.edu /adaccess/warbonds.html (1424 words)

	World War II : World War Two
		World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a war fought from 1939 to 1945 in Europe and, during much of the 1930s and 1940s, in Asia.
		The accepted view is that the war began in earnest on September 1, 1939 with the raid of Poland by Nazi Germany, and concluded on September 2, 1945 with the official surrender of the last Axis force, Japan.
		World War II ravaged civilians more than any previous war and served as a backdrop for genocidal killings by Nazi Germany as well as several other mass slaughters of civilians which, although not technically genocide, were nevertheless significant.
	www.fastload.org /wo/World_War_Two.html (4436 words)

	World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is generally considered the most costly and intense war in human history.
		Many consider World War II to be the only true world war due to the overwhelming number of nations involved and the extraordinary number of theatres—from Europe and the Soviet Union to North Africa, China, South East Asia and the Pacific.
		The end of World War II is seen by many as the end of Britain's position as a global superpower and the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as the dominant powers in the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_War_Two (9294 words)

	World War Two
		The names of the war dead are inscribed on bronze panels covering the eight main masonry piers which support the roof, and are arranged alphabetically under their ships, with the name of the Master or Skipper (if it appears) first in each case.
		Catania War Cemetery is 7 kilometres south-west of Catania.
		The World War Two plot is approximately 40 meters to the left, the Cross of Sacrifice being easily visible on approach to the junction.
	www.obeirnefamily.cwc.net /issue6/world_war_two.htm (2386 words)

	World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The names of the war dead are inscribed on bronze panels covering the eight main masonry piers which support the roof, and are arranged alphabetically under their ships, with the name of the Master or Skipper (if it appears) first in each case.
		Catania War Cemetery is 7 kilometres south-west of Catania.
		The World War Two plot is approximately 40 meters to the left, the Cross of Sacrifice being easily visible on approach to the junction.
	www.obeirnefamily.mcmail.com /issue6/world_war_two.htm (2386 words)

	Infantry Weapons of World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: )
		World War Two saw a massive increase in the variety of weapons used to equip the average infantry battalion.
		A First World War private would have been versed in the operation of his bolt action rifle, the light machine gun and the heavy machine gun fielded by his particular army.
		And throughout the war, just a step behind the Rifleman, came the Medic, whose job it was to comfort the fallen, and try with the meagre items in his bag to staunch the wound or rearrange the shattered features of his friend into something human again.
	www.stormpages.com /garyjkennedy/Weapons/infantry_weapons_of_world_war_tw.htm (990 words)

	WWII WORLD WAR TWO
		World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest war in human history.
		This was a significant contributing factor in the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
		Resistance during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns.
	www.solarnavigator.net /world_war_two.htm (9668 words)

	Second World War
		Japan entered the war in December 1941and swiftly achieved a series of victories which resulted in the occupation of most of south-east Asia and large areas of the Pacific by the end of March 1942.
		Two thirds of those taken prisoner were captured by the Japanese during their advance through south-east Asia within the first few weeks of 1942.
		Nurses had gone overseas with the AIF in 1940, but during the early years of the war women were generally unable to make a significant contribution to the war effort in any official capacity.
	www.awm.gov.au /atwar/ww2.htm (1137 words)

	World War II (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The dramatic "dogfights" of such famed air aces of World War I as Manfred von Richthofen, René Fouck, Billy Bishop, or Eddie Rickenbacker gave a nostalgic touch of sportsmanship and chivalry to the drab war of trenches.
		When World War II came, expecting it to be a repetition of World War I, French generals proposed to wait for the Germans to come and exhaust themselves by costly and vain attacks against the supposedly impregnable Maginot Line.
		The fluid war of movement, imposed on it by the Germans, bewildered it.
	mars.acnet.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/worldwar2.html (2790 words)

	Lakewood War Dead: World War Two
		Surrender, marking the end of World War II, came aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, September 2, 1945.
		The total number of Americans who lost their lives in World War II was 312,896.
		There was such heavy fighting in Florence that all the bridges were destroyed in World War II except, the Ponte Vecchio.
	www.lkwdpl.org /history/wwtwo.html (7026 words)

	Lesser Known Facts of WWII Pre-War to 1939, 1940
		The first shot of World War II in Europe was fired from the German battleship Schleswig Holstein which was on an official visit to Poland and berthed in Danzig harbour.
		The incident which triggered World War II was the fake, simulated attack by the Germans on their own radio station near Gleiwitz on the Polish border.
		Two of the crew survived while two others were killed during the attack, which is credited to Spitfires of 602 and 603 Squadrons.
	members.iinet.net.au /~gduncan/facts.html (8030 words)

	world war two
		Hitler was wounded and gassed in World War I. After the war, his power as a public speaker landed him the job of political indoctrination of the troops emphasizing emotionalism and violent provocation.
		In 1945, at the end of the war, there was a general expectation that the USSR had become one of the world's truly great powers by moldeding the occupied countries of eastern Europe in the Stalinist image and placing them under Moscow's control, and entirely isolating the whole bloc of Communist nations from the West.
		His rise to fame during World War II was meteoric: a lieutenant colonel in 1941, he was a five-star general in 1945.
	www.hannasd.org /sths/war2/wwtwo.htm (8940 words)

	World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: )
		War materials were to be handed over to the Allies, and the manufacture of munitions was almost completely halted.
		Unfortunately, two of its members defected and as a result most of the rest were arrested and executed.
		So, if you were to ask me what it was like during World War Two for the people, here it is: it was like being in the utmost pit of despair and want and then being raised from that into a country that, on the surface, was glorious and prosperous.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Rhodes/6916/ww2.htm (8649 words)

	World War Two, A History of From Hitler's Rise to the Surrender of Japan
		And though Germany would subsequently expand its tank forces during the first years of the war, it was not the number of tanks that Germany had (the Allies had almost as many in September 1939) but the fact of their being organized into divisions and operated as such that was to prove decisive.
		World War II: Axis and Allied movements in Europe and North Africa, 1940-42, and (inset) German invasion of the...
		Then, on March 27, 1941, two days after the Yugoslav government's signature, in Vienna, of its adhesion to the Axis Pact, a group of Yugoslav Army officers, led by General Dusan Simovic, executed a coup d'état in Belgrade, overthrowing the regency in favour of the 17-year-old king Peter II and reversing the former government's policy.
	history-world.org /world_war_ii.htm (11409 words)

	Lecture 11: Hitler and World War Two
		Because of his experiences in Vienna, World War One, the Münich putsch and in prison, Adolf Hitler dreamed of building a vast German Empire sprawling across Central and Eastern Europe.
		The French, with the largest army on the Continent, refused to contemplate an offensive war, as was their position in World War One, and decided instead to protect their borders at all costs.
		The Spanish Civil War was decisive for Hitler for it was here that he was able to test new weapons and new aircraft which would eventually make their appearance when World War Two finally broke out in 1939.
	www.historyguide.org /europe/lecture11.html (3784 words)

	World War Two
		The impact of World War Two developed only slowly in India and was hardly felt by 1st Queen’s at Razmak.
		The Viceroy duly proclaimed that India was also at war, but the Commander-in-Chief’s offer to train forces for service abroad was rejected in London and it was reaffirmed that the responsibility of the Government of India remained limited to internal security and frontier defence.
		The entry of Japan into the war in1942, the fall of Malaya and the retreat in Burma, brought the war to the eastern frontier of India and political crisis.
	www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk /reg_in_india/india46_1.html (462 words)

	The World at War, history of WW 1939-1945
		Every such work as The World at War, history of WW 1939-1945 is an attempt to walk the tightrope between the fullest possible and the most accessible description of the period.
		When World War II began in 1939, Germany was the aggressor, it was later joined in June 1940, by Italy, and Japan in December 1941.
		The war against Japan was fought over two-thirds of the world's surface, with America and her allies taking part in vast air, land and sea battles.
	www.euronet.nl /users/wilfried/ww2/ww2.htm (2153 words)

	World War Two - Main Causes
		Although the outbreak of war was triggered by Germany's invasion of Poland, the causes of the war are more complex.
		As a punishment for having started World War One, Germany was not allowed to join and Russia was also excluded due to a growing fear of Communism.
		When the world was hit by depression in the late 1920s countries were reluctant to lose trading partners to other non-member countries.
	www.historyonthenet.com /WW2/causes.htm (1856 words)

	The Wartime Memories Project
		World War Two was perhaps one of the most traumatic times in recent history.
		If you were born after the war and know someone who would like to share their stories, please ask them and add their tale to the collection.
		Memories of all types can be added, no matter if you were at home during the war, (which ever country you call home), posted abroad with one of the services, helped in the home guard or resistance, were evacuated or in a reserved occupation.
	www.wartimememories.co.uk /main.html (1530 words)

	A History of World War Two, Churchill
		Two years later he entered the Cabinet as president of the board of trade (1908-10).
		As a war adviser, he led a small group in advocating an attack on the Gallipoli peninsula.
		True, he remained in Parliament and held several posts--secretary of war and air minister, 1918-21; under-secretary for the colonies, 1921-22; chancellor of the exchequer, 1924-29; and lord rector of the University of Edinburgh, 1929-32.
	history-world.org /churchill.htm (1257 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration (Site not responding. Last check: )
		WORLD WAR II, the name commonly given to the global conflict of 1939-1945.
		It was the greatest and most destructive war in history.
		Whereas military operations in World War I were conducted primarily on the European continent, World War II included gigantic struggles not only in Europe but in Asia, Africa, and the far-flung islands of the Pacific as well.
	gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_i.html (117 words)

	GI -- World War II Commemoration (Site not responding. Last check: )
		World War II ended on September 2, 1945 with the formal surrender of Japan aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
		To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, we have put together what we believe to be the definitive collection of World War II historical materials on the Web.
		More informative articles about the war, organized by person and topic, are here for study and reflection.
	gi.grolier.com /wwii/wwii_mainpage.html (149 words)

	World War Two
		He encouraged the people by stating if they are the victors, their institutions will remain and Europe will be free but if they fail the world will "sink into an abyss of a new dark age" and Churchill expresses his hope this will be Britain's finest hour.
		After the first four minutes describing Japan's "plans for world conquest" and showing some atrocities committed by the Japanese (some of the images are unsettling) the film shows the B-29 manufacturing facility with its many innovative features and details the plane's specifications.
		This motion picture was part of the "Mighty 7th War Loan" and describes the efforts of the 82nd Airborne, 101st Airborne, and the 9th Troop Transport Command.
	www.signalalpha.com /html/world_war_two.html (1745 words)

	World War Two (Site not responding. Last check: )
		At the activation ceremony, MG Lee observed, "The 101st...has no history, but it has a rendezvous with destiny." While the first part of his statement was not quite true, the second part certainly was.
		The 101st was originally activated on July 23, 1918 as part of the mobilization for World War One.
		When the 101st received its orders, their commander, MG Taylor was in Washington at the War Department and the Division Artillery Commander, Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe was named acting commander.
	www.screamingeaglesthroughtime.com /id15.html (3105 words)

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