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The Road to War, 1931–1941
Every chapter, map and battle — indexed
The Road to War, 1931–1941 is an interactive situation map: 12 guided chapters, 18 dated map states, and 42 battles, turning points and sites of memory, each drawn where it happened. This page is the card catalog — every piece of the atlas as a readable, linkable page.
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THE CHAPTERS
The World the Slump Made
CHAPTER 1 · 1931
Mukden: The First Unpunished Gamble
CHAPTER 2 · 1933
Germany Turns Charcoal
CHAPTER 3 · 1935
Abyssinia: The League Dies in Africa
CHAPTER 4 · 1935
The Rhineland Bluff and the Spanish Rehearsal
CHAPTER 5 · 1937
China: The War Nobody Declared
CHAPTER 6 · 1938
Anschluss and Munich: Appeasement at Full Stretch
CHAPTER 7 · 1938
Prague, the Pact, Poland
CHAPTER 8 · 1939
The Fall of the West
CHAPTER 9 · 1940
The Turn South
CHAPTER 10 · 1940
Barbarossa: The Gamble That Ends the Gambles
CHAPTER 11 · 1941
Pearl Harbor: The Roads Meet
CHAPTER 12 · 1941
THE MAP, YEAR BY YEAR
1931SEP 1931MAR 1933JUL 1937OCT 19381939SEP 1940DEC 1941JAN 1933OCT 1935MAR 1936JUL 1936MAR 1938OCT 1938MAR–APR 1939SEP 1939JUN 1940JUN–DEC 1941
BATTLES, EVENTS & SITES OF MEMORY
✕ Clark Field✕ Dunkirk◆ Guernica● Italy seizes Albania◆ Katyń✕ Khalkhin Gol● Marco Polo Bridge✕ Maychew● Mers-el-Kébir◆ Nanjing✕ Pearl Harbor● Sanctions without teeth✕ Taranto● The Anschluss✕ The Battle of Britain✕ The Battle of Shanghai● The Hoare–Laval Pact● The Hossbach memorandum✕ The Kota Bharu landings● The Lytton Report● The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact● The Mukden Incident● The Munich Conference● The Nuremberg rallies● The Pact of Steel● The Rhineland reoccupied● The Saar returns● The Stresa Front● The Tripartite Pact● The USS Panay✕ The Winter War● The Xi’an Incident● The armistice at Compiègne◆ The bombing of Chungking● The bombing of Rotterdam● The fall of Addis Ababa● The fleet sails● The march into Prague● The oil embargo reaches Tokyo✕ The siege of Warsaw● Wal Wal✕ Westerplatte
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