19. “ I suggest the comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from that post and appointing another man in his stead who in all other respects differs from Comrade Stalin in having only one advantage, namely, that of being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite, and more considerate to the comrades.” Vladimir Lenin
35. Not without certain irony, Nikolai Yezhov, the young man strolling with Stalin, is shot in 1940. It seems only fitting that when Yezhov is removed from the photograph he is replaced by the waters of the Moscow-Volga Canal. Yezhov was commissar of water transport.
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38. Lenin and Trotsky celebrate the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution in Red Square.
39. Lenin Celebrates, but Trotsky has been airbrushed out. Trotsky and Lenin (top center of stairs) in 1919 photograph of a Red Square celebration is of the anniversary of the revolution. To make it suitable for a 1967 book of Lenin Photos, Trotsky is removed.
40. Trotsky, left, reads Pravda , the Bolshevik newspaper he once edited. In 1925, Stalin ousts Trotsky as commissar of war. At right, a citizen has scratched Trotsky's picture from his own history book, as part of the citizen's "personal responsibility" to support the Communist Party.
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66. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis is created Joined together as western democracies appeared weak to fight Soviet communism and not to interfere with one another’s expansion
67. The world would revolve around the “axis” of these countries Looking at the cartoon which country portrayed the most influential of the 3? How can you tell?
68. How does this reflect the nationalist policies of these three countries?
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72. Guernica Guernica challenges our notions of warfare as heroic and exposes it as a brutal act of self-destruction. Guernica remains ambiguous. When asked to explain his symbolism, Picasso remarked, "It isn't up to the painter to define the symbols. Otherwise it would be better if he wrote them out in so many words! The public who look at the picture must interpret the symbols as they understand them
73. But Hitler was amassing his troops. Preparing his new lightning war “Blitzkrieg”
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77. Which of those reasons for appeasement does this best illustrate?
78. For Hitler it meant that Russia would not stand in the way of his planned invasion of Poland. And if war should result, he would not have to fight on two fronts. For Stalin, the pact protected his country, at least temporarily from German invasion Not so… Nazi – Soviet Pact ? POLAND Who’s lying between them?
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87. Troops waiting to evacuate! Their backs to the sea, British & French troops line up to run away from the Nazis. Every able ship in Britain tries to cross the channel to assist. Heroic event in the eyes of the Allies
88. During the early part of the war, Britain was going through what was known as "The Phony War“ (months of preparing and waiting for war). But it was not until a fleet of boats and ships began to arrive at Dover from Dunkirk with thousands of battle torn and weary troops that had been defeated on the northern European mainland, that the war really struck home.
89. France Invaded France surrenders in six weeks, June, 1940, and a pro- Nazi government (Vichy) is set up to control France.
90. France forced to surrender in the exact train car in which Germany signed WWI armistice.
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93. French General and Vichy leader Philippe Petain (1856 - 1951) shaking hands with Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945) after the fall of France.
98. A formation of Luftwaffe Junkers Ju87D Stuka dive-bombers in the air.
99. The Battle of Britain : 1940 - 1942, totally fought in the air. The Luftwaffe’s plan was to pound England out of the war. It failed .
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105. An area near St Pancras Station in London showing the damage caused by a German air raid during the London blitz in WW II.
106. British citizens take shelter in the subway tunnels under London during the Blitz phase of the Battle of Britain, in which London was bombed every night for eleven weeks straight, England.
107. St Paul's cathedral standing above the surrounding burning buildings during the London blitz.
120. Lend- Lease Act : Gave Roosevelt the ability to legally help U.S. Allies with weapons and supplies without declaring war.
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122. The Atlantic Charter This meeting took place in August of 1941 and set the goals for the war such as destroying Nazi tyranny and creating a permanent system of security for all nations to choose their form of govt What is “interesting” about this date?
123. The Atlantic Charter , a joint proclamation by the United States and Britain declaring that they were fighting the Axis powers to "ensure life, liberty, independence and religious freedom and to preserve the rights of man and justice." The Atlantic Charter served as a foundation stone for the later establishment of the United Nations , setting forth several principles for the nations of the world, including -- the renunciation of all aggression, right to self- government , access to raw materials, freedom from want and fear, freedom of the seas, and disarmament of aggressor nations. Churchill Roosevelt
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125. Japanese General and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo (1885 - 1948). Japanese military leaders embarked on a dual policy of tightening control at home while engaging in a series of imperialist conquests abroad
126. The United States refused to trade raw materials to Japan because of its attacks on China and South Asia. So………….
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129. A Japanese photo taken during the aerial torpedo attack on "Battleship Row" on the far side of Ford Island. A torpedo has just struck USS West Virginia (center). Also seen are (from left) Nevada, Arizona, Tennessee, Oklahoma (torpedoed and listing) alongside Maryland, and California.
139. June the 6th, 1944, D-Day. Thousands of paratroopers would drop in behind the German lines at night and 4,000 landing craft, 300 combat vessels would attack at 5:30 that morning.
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141. D-Day (Normandy ): June 6, 1944 The Allies surprise Hitler by landing on the Atlantic side of France, not the British side as he had predicted .
147. Battle of the Bulge : Hitler launches the last German offensive of the war in the winter of 1944-1945. He hoped to drive the Allies back into France preventing an invasion of Germany .
148. Battle of the Bulge As Allied lines fall back, a “bulge” is created in the center of the line, giving the battle its familiar name
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161. Japanese naval lieutenant surrendered to American forces after hiding in caves on the island of Okinawa. He decided to make his own 'separate peace' after he heard a Japanese compatriot broadcast from an American landing craft telling of his experience as a prisoner in American hands and recommending it. The broadcast resulted in one of the biggest Japanese mass surrenders of World War Two
173. General Hideki Tojo former premier of Japan, sprawling in a chair with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. He had attempted suicide to escape trial as a war criminal…
174. but was found guilty at trial, then sentenced and executed in 1948.