Turning Points

Nazi Europe, 1939-1940s: Poland and the Fall of France

Image German air war on Poland
Image Bombardment of Warsaw, 1939
Image Finnish soldiers at war with Soviets, 1939
Image Germans attack Norway, 1940
Image German attack on Holland, 1940
Image Germans attack France, 1940
Map Dunkirk
Image Dunkirk
Image German occupation of Paris, June 1940
Franco-German armistice, June 1940
Image Charles DeGaulle
Image British attack on French fleet at Oran
Image Vichy regime poster
Image General Henri-Philippe Petain
Image Pierre Laval
Image French Resistance
Image Slave laborer in German war industry, 1943
Image Vidkun Quisling
Norwegian Collaborationist Forces During WWII

The Battle of Britain and American Aid

The Nazi Invasion of Russia: The Russian Front, 1941-1942

1942, the Year of Dismay: Russia, North Africa, the Pacific

Map Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, 1939-42
Image Against England in North Africa, 1941
Image Afrika Korps
Image General Erwin Rommel
Image British tanks at El Alamein
Image Pearl Harbor
Image Takeo Tanimizu, Japanese fighter pilot
Map Japan's conquests, 1942

The Western-Soviet Victory

Declaration by the United Nations, 1942
Image Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of Midway
J. R. Garrett, A Marine Diary: My Experiences on Guadalcanal
Images Women war workers
Image German woman war emergency service, 1942
Image Soviet women fighter pilots
Image Battle of the Atlantic
Image German POWs, North Africa, 1943
Image Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-3
Image Black market, Hamburg, 1944
Image Allied invasion of Sicily

The Allied Offensive, 1944-1945: Europe and the Pacific

Map Normandy invasion
Image Liberation of Paris, August 1944
Image Out with the Germans!, 1944
Image Launch of V-2 rocket
Images Fire-bombing of Dresden
Image Polish underground rising
Image Hitler Dead
Image Admiral Doenitz
Image Oradour-sur-Glane
Image Execution of hostages in Pancevo, 1941
Rudolf Hoss Visits Treblinka
Image Battle of Iwo Jima
Image Atomic bomb
Image Japanese surrender signed, September 2, 1945