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NAZI WORLDVIEW
1933: Hitler withdrew Germany from League of Nations
1935: Announced the creation of a new airforce, and began drafting to increase the
army to five times its size
1936: Germany in alliance with Italy and Japan; Nazis in control in Austria
1938: Germany formally annexed Austria
1938: Munich Conference “agreed” to let Germany occupy Sudetenland (NW
Czechoslovakia). Within a month, Hitler occupied Czech lands and set up a puppet
state in Slovakia
1939: Hitler signs non-aggression pact with Stalin over Poland (Finland, Estonia,
Latvia, Lithuania, and eastern Poland were already under Soviet influence
Sept 1, 1939: Hitler attacks Poland. Blitzkrieg
By April-May 1940: Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, France
1940: Churchill replaces Chamberlain; end of “appeasement” policy; Hitler’s
unsuccessful attempt to block Suez (oil) traffic
1941: Germany invades Greece and Yugoslavia, and later Soviet Union. Declares
war on the US. By December, Germany was beginning to show signs of faltering.
War in Asia began in 1937: Japan invaded China. Later, it got into a conflict with
Britain over India, Burma, Malaya. By 1942, Japanese expansion was contained
Dresden, 1945
View from the city hall over the devastated inner city. Photo by Richard Peter.
Source: Images of War: 130 Years of War Photography
HOME FRONT
Britain: civilian “war work” – women
in civil services, agriculture, Grow
Your Own Food campaigns,
regulation of industries
Soviet Union: supercentralization;
women formed more than 60% of the
work force
United States: race problems
because of African American
migrations and mobilization.
Discrimination against Japanese
Americans
Japan: Hiroshima – 140,000 died by
the end of 1945. Another 50,000 died
by 1950
Germany: Divided into four
occupation zones at 1945 San
Francisco Conference
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Hiroshima, 1945
A shadow on the wall is
all that is left of this
Japanese civilian
Source: Images of War: 130 Years of War
Photography by Rainer Fabian and Hans
Christian Adam (1983)
“Embedded” journalism
Okinawa, 1945. In order to be able to take pictures from a dive
bomber, war photographer David Duncan had a special container
mounted under the wings of this combat aircraft.
Source: Images of War: 130 Years of War Photography
by Rainer Fabian and Hans Christian Adam (1983)