Week 1.Origins
of War and Hitler’s Invasion of Poland,
1919-39
Versailles
Treaty
Adolf Hitler
Reichswehr
Gen. Hans von Seeckt
Die Truppenfuhrung
Blitzkrieg
Luftwaffe
Wehrmacht
Neville Chamberlain
Sudentenland
Nazi-Soviet Pact
Joseph Stalin
Oberkommado des Heeres
(OKH)
Poland
Army Group North
Col. Gen. Fedor von
Bock
Army Group South
Col. Gen. Gerd von Rundstedt
Gen. Heinz Guderian
Major General Erwin Rommel, then commander of the 7th Panzer Division,
with captured
British officers in Cherbourg, France, June 1940. (Gregory
J. W. Urwin Collection)
Week 2.Scandanavia,
the Low Countries, and France,
1939-40
Russo-Finnish War
Mannerheim Line
Treaty of Moscow
OberkommandoderWehrmacht
(OKW)
Operation Weserubung
Gen. Nikolaus von Falkenhorts
Narvik
Gen. Erich von Manstein
Operation Fall Gelb
Army Group B
Gen. Fedor von Bock
Army Group C
Col.
Gen. Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb
Army Group A
Gen. Gerd von Rundstedt
Col. Gen. Ewald von Kleist
XIX Panzer Corps
Gen. Heinz Guderian
British Expeditionary Force (BEF)
Gen. Maurice Gamelin
EbnEmael
Ardennes
MeuseRiver
Sedan
Gen. Erwin Rommel
7th Panzer Division
Col. Charles DeGaulle
Arras
Gen. Maxime Weygand
Lord Gort
Dunkirk
Operation DYNAMO
Winston S. Churchill
Charbourg
Premier Paul Reynaud
Marshal Henri-PhillippePetain
Week 3.Battle
of Britain
and War in the Balkans and Mediterranean, 1940-41
Force H
Mers el Kebir
Operation Seelowe (SEA
LINON)
Battle
of Britain
Reischsmarshal Hermann Goring
Air Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
RAF Fighter Command
Benito Mussolini
Marshal Rodolfo Graziani
Gen. Ion Antonescu
Taranto
WesternDesert
Force
Sidi el Barrani
Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell
El Agheila
Lt. Gen. Erwin Rommel
Tobruk
Operation PUNISHMENT
Crete
Gen. Karl Student
German 7th Airborne Division
Maj. Gen. BernardFreyberg
Operation Merkur
(MERCURY)
Maleme Airfield
AfrikaKorps
Enigma
Ultra Intelligence
Operation BATTLEAXE
Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck
British 8th Army
Operation CRUSADER
Gazala Line
Gen. Neil Ritchie
A British Churchill tank on maneuvers in England.
(Gregory J. W. Urwin Collection)
Week 4. Operation Barbarossa,
1941
Operation BARBAROSSA
Army Group North
Field Marshal Wilhelm Rigger von Leeb
ArmyGroupCenter
Field Marshal Fedor
von Bock
Army Group South
Field Marshal Gerd
von Rundstedt
LXVI Panzer Corps
Gen. Erich von Manstein
Gen. Dmittrii G. Pavlov
Stavka
Minsk
Pocket
Smolensk
Pocket
Yelnya
Col. Gen. Franz Halder
Gen. Walter von Brauchitsch
Leningrad
Operation TYPHOON
Moscow
Gen. Georgi Zhukov
Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau
Week 5.Japan
Strikes:War in the Pacific, 1941-42
Manchuria
“China
Incident”
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere
Tripartite Pact
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Gen. Hideki Tojo
“Germany
First”
RAINBOW 5
“Two Ocean Navy” Act
Gen. George C. Marshall
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber
U.S.
Pacific Fleet
Ad. Husband E. Kimmel
Ad.Isoroku
Yamamoto
Combined Fleet
Magic Intelligence
Pearl Harbor Task Force
Pearl Harbor
Malaya
Maj. Gen. Tomoyuki
Yamashita
Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival
Wake Island
Maj. James P. S. Devereux
Philippines
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Lt. Gen. Mashara Homma
Japanese 14th Army
BataanPeninsula
Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright
Corregidor
Ad.Chester
W. Nimitz
Port Moresby
Coral Sea
Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle
Doolittle Raid
Midway
Ad.ChuichiNagumo
Week 6.Allied
Victories at Stalingrad and in North Africa,
1942-43
Col. Gen. Franz Halder
Kharkov
Field Marshal Erich von Manstein
Sevatopol
Army Group South
Voronezh
Army Group A
Army Group B
Field Marshal Fedor
von Bock
Stalingrad
Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus
Army Group Don
Reischsmarshal Hermann Goring
Winston S. Churchill
Gen. Harold Alexander
Lt. Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery
British 8th Army
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
AlamHafa
Ridge
El Alamein
Gen. George C. Marshall
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
Operation TORCH
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ad. Francois Darlan
Col. Gen. Jurgen von Arnim
Tunisian Campaign
Maj. Gen. Lloyd Fredenall
U.S.
2nd Corps
KasserinePass
Week 7.Battle
of the Atlantic and Air War over Hitler’s Germany
Kriegsmarine
Ad. Erich Raeder
Ad. Karl Donitz
Wolf Packs
Convoy OB-318
Enigma
BletchleyPark
USS Greer
Operation Paukenschlag
(DRUMBEAT)
Convoy ONS-5
RAF Bomber Command
“Area Bombing”
Air Marshal Arthur T. Harris
Gee
Thousand Plane Raid
German 1st Night Fighter Division
Gen. Joseph Kammhuber
“Window”
SN2 Radar
U.S.
Army Air Forces (USAAF)
Brig. Gen. Ira Eaker
U.S.
8th Air Force
U.S.
15th Air Force
Maj. Gen. James Doolittle
RAF Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
Solly Zuckerman
TRANSPORTATION PLAN
Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz
American B-24 bombers from the 93rd Bombardment Group deliver a daring,
low-level attack against the
Axis oil fields at Ploesti in Romania, August 1, 1943. (Courtesy
of National Guard Bureau)
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Week 9.Turning
Point in the Pacific:Guadalcanal, New
Guinea, and New
Britain
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS)
Southwest Pacific Area (SWPA)
Ad.Chester
W. Nimitz
Central Pacific Area (CINCPOA)
U.S.
1st Marine Division
Operation WATCHTOWER
Tulagi
Guadalcanal
Ad. Frank Jack Fletcher
Rear Ad. V. A. Crutchley
Battle
of SavoIsland
Henderson Field
Battle
of Eastern Solomons
Vice Ad. William F. Halsey
Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch
Papua New Guinea
Buna
U.S.
32nd Division
Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger
Sananda
Combined Chiefs of Staff (CCS)
Casabalanca Conference
Operation CARTWHEEL
Maj. Gen. George C. Kenney
Battle
of the Bismarck Sea
Ad.Isoroku
Yamamoto
“I” Operation
Bougainville
Island-hopping
Week 10.German
Disasters on the Eastern Front, 1943-1944
Field Marshal Erich von Manstein
Army Group South
Kharkov
Operation CITADEL
Kursk
Field Marshal Walter Model
German 9th Army
Marshal Konstantin
K. Rokossovskii
Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin
Army Group North
“Panther”
CrimeanPeninsula
German 17th Army
Sevastopol
Operation BAGARATION
ArmyGroupCenter
Field Marshal Ernest Busch
Week 11.Sicily
and Italy
Casablanca
Conference
Gen. George C. Marshall
Winston S. Churchill
Trident Conference
Tehran
Conference
Operation HUSKY
U.S.
7th Army
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
British 8th Army
Lt. Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery
Palermo
Messina
King Victor Emmanuel III
Benito Mussolini
Marshal PietroBadoglio
Calabria
Gen. Mark Clark
U.S.
5th Army
Operation AVALANCHE
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring
15th Army Group
Gen. Sir Harold Alexander
Gustav Line
Operation SHINGLE
Anzio
Maj. Gen. John P. Lucas
Monte Cassino
Maj. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott
Rome
Operation ANVIL/DRAGOON
Two of the emotion-laden posters that urged Americans to make the
sacrifices necessary
to support the war effort. (Courtesy of National Archives)
Week 12.Operation
OVERLORD and the Liberation of France
Dieppe
Operation OVERLORD
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Supreme
Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF)
Lt. Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery
21st Army Group
Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey
British 1st Army
Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley
U.S.
1st Army
OmahaBeach
UtahBeach
SwordBeach
GoldBeach
JunoBeach
British 6th Airborne Division
U.S.
82nd Airborne Division
U.S.
101st Airborne Division
Field Marshal Gerd
von Rundstedt
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Army Group B
U.S.
1st Division
U.S.
29th Division
German 352nd Division
Gen. Alfred Jodl
Cherbourg
Field Marshal Hans Gunther
von Kluge
Operation COBRA
Maj. Gen. J. Lawton Collins
U.S.
VII Corps
12th Army Group
Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
U.S.
3rd Army
Mortain
Falaise Gap
Operation DRAGOON
“Broad Front”
“Single Thrust”
Antwerp
Operation MARKET GARDEN
British 1st Airborne Division
9th SS Panzer Division
10th SS Panzer Division
Lt. Gen. F. A. M. Browning
Arnhem
Scheldt
Estuary
HuertgenForest
6th Army Group
Lt. Gen. Jacob Devers
Week 13.American
Drive across the Pacific, 1943-44
Trident Conference
Ad. Ernest J. King
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
U.S.
5th Fleet
Ad. Raymond A. Spruance
Ad. William F. Halsey
U.S.
3rd Fleet
Tarawa
U.S.
2nd Marine Division
Kwajalein
Task Force 58
Ad.Richmond
Kelly Turner
Truk
Eniwetok
Admiralty Islands
LosNegrosIsland
Hollandia
Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger
Wakde
Biak
A-GO
Saipan
Mariana Islands
Boeing B-29 “Superfortress”
Bomber
U.S.
2nd Marine Division
U.S.
4th Marine Division
U.S.
3rd Marine Division
U.S.
27th Infantry Division
Guam
U.S.
77th Infantry Division
Lt. Gen. Holland
M. Smith
Tinian
Battle
of the Philippine Sea
“Great MarianasTurkey
Shoot”
U.S.
1st Marine Division
Peleliu
U.S.
81st Infantry Division
Rear Ad. Thomas C. Kinkaid
U.S.
7th Fleet
Sho-1
San Bernadino Strait
SuriagoStrait
U.S.
6th Army
Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger
Leyte
Ad.Takeo
Kurita
Battle
of Leyte Gulf
Luzon
Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita
Week 14. Collapse of Germany
Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder
Battle
of the Bulge
6th SS Panzer Army
5th Panzer Army
Bastogne
U.S.
101st Airborne Division
Lt. Col. JochenPeiper
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
U.S.
3rd Army
1st Ukrainian Front
1stBelorussian
Front
ArmyGroupCenter
Warsaw
Field Marshal Ferdinand Schorner
Heinrich Himmler
Lt. Gen. Jacob M. Devers
6th Army Group
Colmar
Pocket
U.S.
1st Army
Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges
U.S.
9th Armored Division
Remagen
LudendorffRailroadBridge
Field Marshal Walter Model
Army Group B
Yalta
Conference
Gen. Alfred Jodl
A Roman Catholic chaplain distributes the Eucharist (Holy Communion)
to battle-grimed
members of the 5th Marine Regiment in the midst of the bloody fight
for Iwo Jima,
February-March 1945. (Courtesy of National Archives)
Week 15.Japan’s
Final Agonies:IwoJima,
Okinawa, and the A-Bomb
IwoJima
Lt. Gen. TadamichiKuribayashi
Mount Suribachi
Maj. Gen. Harry Schmidt
V Amphibious Corps
3rd Marine Division
4th Marine Division
5th Marine Division
Okinawa
Lt. Gen. Mitsuru Ushijima
Lt. Gen. Simon Bolivar Buckner
U.S.
10th Army
Naha
ShuriCastle
Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay
Operation OLYMPIC
Dr. Vannevar Bush
Manhattan
Project
Harry S. Truman
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Emperor Hirohito