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Pre-WW1 (1900 to 1914)
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●●τ 1930 through 1960 ..
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20th Century History (1900-1909) - HiPo >> .

20th Century History (1910-1919) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1920-1929) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1930-1939) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1940-1949) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1950-1959) - HiPo >> .
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20th Century History (1970-1979) - HiPo >> .
20th Century History (1980-1989) - HiPo >> .
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Descent into WW2

How WW2 Began | B2W | 1939 3/3 > .  

History of German Flag - Hilbert > .

1930s Prelude to WW2 - BeGe >> .

1900-37+ Localized Conflicts - BePr >> .

Long Shadow & Impossible Peace → Global Conflicts - BePr >> .

Impossible Peace - Time >> .

Events that caused the world to stand on the brink of total war in just two decades after the "War to End All Wars". Events that end with three words through a phone line: "Grandmother is dead," words that launch World War II.

Sitzkreig Hesitation .. 

● '39

Descent into WW2 .. 
Sitzkreig Hesitation .. 

'39 > .

1939-9-1: Nazi Germany invades Poland ⇒ Second World War - Pod > .
1939 >> .

YEAR 1 - WW2 - 1939/40 - WW2 >> .

1939 ..

39-9-1 The Polish German War 39-10-6 ..
39-9-3 England declares war 45-5-7 ..

39-10-5 A Total and Unmitigated Defeat .. 
39-10-17 German U-47 Raid at Scapa Flow ..
39-11-30 Soviets invade Finland 40-3-13 ..

39-12-17 Admiral Graf Spee scuttled, Battle of the River Plate ..

WW2 Year 1 - September 1939/40 .. 

Sitzkreig Hesitation

Ignoring early signs of impending invasion > .
Shadows Of The Third Reich - Sitzkrieg, The Phony War > . 

The Phoney War: Actually Not Phoney > . 

WW2: The Beginning, "The Phony War" - AP > .
Phoney War, the Admiral Graf Spee and the Altmark Incident - HiGu > . 

● '40

'40 > .
1940 >> .

YEAR 1 - WW2 - 1939/1940 - WW2 >> .

YEAR 2 - WW2 - 1940/41 - WW2 >> .

● 1940 .. 
40-4-9 Invasion of Norway & Denmark 40-6-10 ..
40-5-10 Churchill's new war cabinet ..
40-5-12 Battle of Sedan 40-5-14 Bombing of Rotterdam ..

40-5 - Britain Opts to Fight On .. 
40-6-1 Dunkirk - June 1 1940 ..
40-6-2 Edward R. Murrow reports the Dunkirk evacuation ..
40-6-10 Italy enters WW2 ..
40-6-15 Operation Aerial/Ariel 40-6-25 ..
40-6-21 Lord Haw Haw threatening a Nazi invasion of the UK ..
40-6-23 Hitler in Paris .. 
'40 Eiffel Tower '44 - conquest, liberation ..
40-7-3 Battle of Mers-el-Kébir - Operation Catapult ..

40-7-10 Battle of Britain Begins ..
40-7-16 Directive 16 ..
40-8-12 Bridge Busters - Raid on Dortmund-Ems Canal ..
40-8-13 Adlertag & Unternehmen Adlerangriff ..
40-8-17 Naval Blockade of British Isles ..
40-8-18 Attack on RAF Kenley - Battle of Britain ..
40-8-18 Kenley attacked ..
40-8-24 Bombing of London described by Edward R. Murrow ..
40-9-7 Blitz begins, East London docks ..
40-9-13 Buckingham Palace Bombed ..
40-10-28 Greco-Italian War 41-4-23 ..
40-10-31 Battle of Britain ends ..
40-11-11 German Intelligence Coup ..
40-11-11 Taranto Raid - Operation Judgement ..
40-11-14 Coventry Blitz ..  

40-12-18 Directive 21 - Barbarossa ..

WW2 Year 1 - September 1939/40 ..
WW2 Year 2 - September 1940/41 ..  

● '41

'41 > .
1941 >> .

YEAR 2 - WW2 - 1940/1941 - WW2 >> .

YEAR 3 - WW2 - 1941/1942 - WW2 >> .

41-1-22 Tobruk Captured .. 
41-1-29 ABC-1, Europe First 41-3-27 ..
41-3-9 Edward R. Murrow reports on the mood in WWII Britain ..
41-3-27 Battle of Cape Matapan 14-3-29 ..
41-4-1 Iraqi coup d'état ..
41-4-27 Fall of Athens ..
41-5-9 Enigma machine, code book captured ..
41-5-10 Hess Flight to Scotland ..
41-5-20 Battle of Crete - 41-6-1 ..
41-5-27 Bismarck Sunk ..
41-5-27 Paris Protocols - Syria, Africa .. 
40-10-28 Greco-Italian War 41-4-23 ..
41-8-14 Atlantic Charter ..

41-12-7 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ..

WW2 Year 2 - September 1940/41 ..

● '42

'42 > .
1942 >> .
YEAR 3 - WW2 - 1941/1942 - WW2 >> .

42-1-1 Edward R. Murrow on the streets of wartime London at night ..
42-1-26 American Soldiers in UK ..
42-2-27 to 28 Bruneval Raid - Operation Biting ..
42-3-4 2nd Pearl Harbor Attack ..
42-4-23 Baedecker Blitz 42-6-1 ..
42-6-10 Aleutian Islands campaign 43-8-15 ..
42-8-17 USAF bombs Rouen ..
42-10-24 El Alamein - day 3 ..
42-11-27 Toulon Scuttling by French Navy ..

● '43

'43 > .
1943 >> .

43-3-31 Rotterdam bombed by USAF ..
43-5-16 Dambusters - Operation Chastise ..
43-7-5 Unternehmen Zitadelle - Battle of Kursk .. 
43-9-12 Gran Sasso Raid - Rescue of Benito Mussolini > .

● '44

'44 > .
1944 >> .

Logistics of D-Day ..

44-4-22 Exercise Tiger 44-4-30 ..
June 44 to 45 ..
44-6-6 Operation Deadstick, D-Day ..

44-6-6 D-Day Operation Neptune ..

44-6-6 D-Day - Overlord, Neptune ..
44-6-6 D-Day - June 6, 1944 ..
44-6-6 D-Day landings - AFPU ..

44-6-10 WWII: Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre ..

44-7-1 Bretton Woods Conference (to) 44-7-21 ..
44-7-5 German Human Torpedoes - Normandy 44-7-6 > ..
44-7-30 Operation Bluecoat 44-8-7 ..
44-7-30 Operation Bluecoat 44-8-7 ..
44-8-14 Unternehmen Greif 44-12-17 ..

1944-8-25 Liberation of Paris; Nazi German garrison surrenders city to Allies - HiPo > .
44-8-25 Eiffel Tower, Paris liberation ..
44-8-25 Siegfried Line Campaign 45-3-7 ..
44-9-17 Market Garden 44-9-25 ..
44-9-19 Hürtgen Forest 44-12-16 ..
44-10-2 Battle of Aachen 44-10-21 ..
44-12-3 Home Guard Stands Down .. 
44-12-16 Battle of the Bulge 45-1-25 .. 

44-12-17 Operation Stösser ..

44-12-31 Unternehmen Nordwind 45-1-25 ..  

● '45

'45 > .

Potsdam 1945 - Where the Cold War Started - Cold War > .
1945 >> .

44-12-16 Battle of the Bulge 45-1-25 .. 

44-12-31 Unternehmen Nordwind 45-1-25 ..

45-1-1 Operation Bodenplatte ..
45-3-7 Battle of Remagen 45-3-17 ..
45-3-23 Werwolf Speech ..
45-4-16 Schlacht um die Seelower Höhen 45-4-19 ..
45-4-23 Battle of Berlin ..
45-4-26 Arrest of Pétain ..
45-4-27 Reichstag Assault 45-5-2 ..  

45-5-5 Battle for Castle Itter ..

1945-5-8 VE-Day .. 

45-5-8 VE Day - Victory in Europe .. 
45-5-8 VE Day - Churchill's speech ..
45-6-21 Post-war Berlin ..
45-7-5 UK general election ..
45-7-17 Potsdam Conference begins ..
45-8-2 Potsdam Conference concludes ..

45-8-15 V-J Day - Victory over Japan Day ..
45-8-28 Occupation of Japan ..
45-9-4 Forgotten German Unit Surrenders ..

45-11-20 Nuremberg Trials Filmed 46-10-1 ..

●● WW2

The Polish German War - WW2 - September 1, 1939 > .  

WW2 Week by Week - WW2 >> .

WW2 Year 1 - September 1939/40 ..  

WW2 Year 2 - September 1940/41 ..  

1939 WW2 ..
1940 WW2 ..
1941 WW2 ..
1942 WW2 ..

1943 WW2 ..
1944 WW2 ..
1945 WW2 ..

● '39 / ● '40 / ● '41 / ● '42 / ● '43 / ● '44 / ● '45 /

WW2, day-by-day > .
WW2 mapping - tb >> .

World War 2 - HoHi >> .

WW2 Year 1 - September 1939/40

UK declares WW2 - 3 September 1939 > . 

72 Hours: Churchills Cabinet Crisis (1) - Stories > .

WW2 - Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin - Big Three of the 20th Century - Hoover > .

Winston Churchill's War - BBC doc > .

Was Chamberlain wrong to appease Hitler? - IWM > .

YEAR 1 of WW2 - 1939/40 - wwt >> .

Churchill - tb >> .

Great Stories from the Past - Great Stories from the Past >> .

Churchill vs Chamberlain: Road to Dunkirk ..

1939 WW2 ..
1940 WW2 ..
1941 WW2 ..
1942 WW2 ..

1943 WW2 ..
1944 WW2 ..
1945 WW2 ..

WW2 Year 2 - September 1940/41

Blitz Begins - WW2 - September 07 1940 > .   

Winston Churchill's War - BBC doc > .

YEAR 2 - WW2 - 1940/41 - ttw >> . 

The war is two years old - WW2 - 106 - September 5, 1941 - WW2 > .

YEAR 3 - WW2 - 1941/42 - WW2 >> .

1939 WW2 ..
1940 WW2 ..
1941 WW2 ..
1942 WW2 ..

1943 WW2 ..
1944 WW2 ..
1945 WW2 ..

WW2 Year 3 - September 1941/42

.The war is two years old - WW2 - 106 - September 5, 1941 - WW2 > .
YEAR 3 - WW2 - 1941/42 - WW2 >> .
 

It is two years this week since Germany invaded Poland. That European conflict soon became a global one. Japan's invasion of China began two years before that, but with Japan allied to the Axis Powers, they are now the same conflict. Those Axis are all fighting together now to try and defeat the Soviet Union, but the war has grown not just in the scale of the armies fighting, but also in the scale of man's inhumanity to man. We see that this week in German occupied territory.

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