Europe at War 1939-1945: No Simple Victory
Not surprisingly, these events discredited those associated with appeasement, leading to Winston Churchill’s forming a new British government in May 1940 predicated on fighting Germany. On the same day that Churchill became prime minister, Germany invaded Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. By June, France was under German control. Germany follow
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By then, Germany was in control of most of continental Europe. It would take more than three years, but ultimately the full participation of the United States, by then a great economic and military power—alongside Britain, Russia, and others in…
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The cost of World War II was, like its predecessor, extraordinarily high. More than 15 million soldiers died in the fighting; a far larger number of civilians also perished, including 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the signature genocide of this or any era. France, the United Kingdom, and Italy each lost approximately half a million people, mostl
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