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Books on World War II
Causes of World War II by Call Number: D 741 .C64 2005ISBN: 9781595560049Publication Date: 2005-07-01WRITTEN SPECIFICALLY FOR STUDENTS in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, the ROAD TO WAR: CAUSES OF CONFLICT series focuses on the events leading up to five major wars in American and world history. Each book presents an in-depth look at the underlying reasons for these conflicts, clearly explaining important events and concepts. The attractive layout includes an easy-to-read typeface and more than 25 color photographs, illustrations, and maps. Even reluctant readers will be captivated by these concise explanations of how and why world-changing wars occurred.
The Censored War by Call Number: D 810 .P7 U47 1993ISBN: 0300057237Publication Date: 1993-05-26Early in World War II censors placed all photographs of dead and badly wounded Americans in a secret Pentagon file known to officials as the Chamber of Horrors. Later, as government leaders became concerned about public complacency brought on by Allied victories, they released some of these photographs of war's brutality. But to the war's end and after, they continued to censor photographs of mutilated or emotionally distressed American soldiers, of racial conflicts at American bases, and other visual evidence of disunity or disorder. In this book George H. Roeder, Jr., tells the story of how American opinions about World War II were manipulated both by the wartime images that citizens were allowed to see and by the images that were suppressed. His text is amplified by visual essays that include many previously unpublished photographs from the army's censored files.
Reporting World War II by Call Number: PN 4867 .R47 1995ISBN: 1883011043Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Indirect causes for World War II
Here are some indirect causes that led to World War II 1939-1945
- Decisions made at the Treaty of Versailles that ended WWI
- 1923 France begins to occupy Western Half of Germany (the Ruhr).
- 1925 Locarno Treaty legitimized France's occupation of the Ruhr.
- The Great Depression 1929-1939.
- 1923 Mussolini came to power.
- 1933 Hitler comes to power. Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- 1935 Hitler renounced disarmament from the end of WWI and starts conscription.
- Mussolini attacks Ethiopia in 1936 the same year Nazi Germany throw the French out of the Ruhr.
- Spanish Civil War starts in 1936.
- Spring 1938 Germany and Austria unite.
- Munich peace accord. Chamberlain the Prime Minister of England capitulates Czechoslovakia to Hitler.
Websites on WWII
Videos on WWII
- Films on Demand WWIICheck out the WWII videos in Films on Demand.