History: World War II

Reference

• 6th Armored Division
• 42nd Infantry "Rainbow" Division
• The British Mandate Prepares for War
• Excerpts from the Report of the Surrender of Gen. Dittmar
• The German Military
• Germany Surrenders
• Maps of the Allied Offensives
  • War Theatre Maps
• American Public Opinion on Helping Allies and Trading Territory for Peace (1939-1940)
• Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn’s Eulogy Dedicating the Marine Cemetery on Iwo Jima - “The Purest Democracy”
• The U.S. Neutrality Acts

Declarations of War

• Argentina vs Japan & Germany (1945)
• Australia vs Japan (1941)
• Canada vs Japan (1941)
• China's vs Japan, Germany & Italy (1941)
• Germany vs USA (1941)
• Germany vs USSR (1941)
• Mexico vs Germany, Italy & Japan (1942)
• United Kingdon vs Japan (1941)
• USA vs Japan (1941)
• USA vs Germany (1941)
• USSR vs Japan (1945)

Important Figures

• Adolf Hitler
• Charles de Gaulle
• Max Horton
• Cordell Hull
• Charles Lindbergh
• Douglas MacArthur
• George C. Marshall
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• George Patton
• Harry Truman
• Hideki Tojo
• Isoroku Yamamoto
• Joachim von Ribbentrop
• Joseph Stalin
• Red Orchestra
• Vyacheslav Molotov
• Winston Churchill

Post-War

• Refugee Problem after the War
• Failure of the Red Cross
• The Marshall Plan
• War Crimes
• De-Nazification
• World War II Documents
• Operation Paperclip (1945)

Jewish Servicemen in WWII

• Statistics on Jewish American Soldiers
• The Jewish Army Plan
  • Truman Opposes Jewish Army 
• Jewish Pilots and Aircrews in the Battle of Britain
• Jewish Personnel at Bletchley Park
• The Story of Jewish Commando Peter Nagel
• Canadian and Allied Jews at the Raid on Dieppe
• Captain Simmon Latutin - The Hero of Mogadishu
• Jewish Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps
• Jewish RAF Special Operators
• Jewish Soldiers at the Battle of Arnhem
• Jewish Troops with the Chindits
• Nathan “Nat” Harold Leaman World War II Escaper Extraordinaire
• No. 3 (Jewish) Troop of the No. 10 Commando
• Two Jewish Heroines of Special Operations
• Jewish POW's at Colditz Castle

Major Operations

• The Blitz (1940)
• Battle of Britain (1940)
• Operation Barbarossa (1941)
  • Polish "Neighbors" and German Invaders:
    Contextualizing Anti-Jewish Violence in the Bialystok
    District During Opening Weeks of Operation Barbarossa
• D-Day (1942)
  • Operation Overlord
• Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
• Operation Torch (1942)
  • Operation Torch and the Liberation of 400,000 Vichy Jews in North Africa
• Operation Citadel (1943)
• Operation Mincemeat (1943)
• Battle of the Bulge (1944)
• Malmédy Massacre (1944)
• Operation Market Garden (1944)
• Operation Valkyrie (1944)
• Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945)

Conferences & Agreements

• Munich Pact (September 29, 1938)
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (August 23, 1939)
• Lend-Lease (March 11, 1941)
• The Atlantic Charter (August 9, 1941)
• Tripartite Pact (September 27, 1940)
• The Declaration of St James’s Palace on Punishment for War Crimes (January 13, 1942)
• Wannsee Conference (January 20, 1942)
• US-USSR Mutual Aid Agreement (June 11, 1942)
• The Potsdam Conference (July 17 - August 2, 1945)
  • The Potsdam Declaration (August 2, 1945)
  • Report on the Tripartite Conference of Berlin (August 2, 1945)
• Casablanca Conference (January 24, 1943)
• Moscow Conference (October 30, 1943)
• Teheran Conference (December 1, 1943)
  • Background & History of the Tehran Conference
• The Yalta Conference (February 4-11, 1945)
  • The Yalta (Crimea) Conference Conclusions