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The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
Every chapter, map and battle — indexed
The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945 is an interactive situation map: 15 guided chapters, 22 dated map states, and 67 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 Gathering Storm
CHAPTER 1 · SEP 1938
The Pact and the Partition of Poland
CHAPTER 2 · SEP 1939
Blitzkrieg in the West
CHAPTER 3 · JUN 1940
The Battle of Britain
CHAPTER 4 · AUG 1940
Mussolini’s Parallel War
CHAPTER 5 · MAY 1941
Barbarossa: The War of Annihilation
CHAPTER 6 · DEC 1941
Rising Sun: From China to Pearl Harbor
CHAPTER 7 · MAY 1942
Midway: Five Minutes That Turned an Ocean
CHAPTER 8 · JUN 1942
The Hinge: Stalingrad and El Alamein
CHAPTER 9 · NOV 1942
Kursk, and the Fall of Fascist Italy
CHAPTER 10 · JUL 1943
The Island Road
CHAPTER 11 · NOV 1943
Overlord and Bagration: The Vice Closes
CHAPTER 12 · JUN 1944
Closing the Ring
CHAPTER 13 · FEB 1945
The Downfall of Imperial Japan
CHAPTER 14 · AUG 1945
The World the War Made
CHAPTER 15 · OCT 1945
THE MAP, YEAR BY YEAR
MAR 1936MAR 1938MAR 1939OCT 1939JUN 1940MAY 1941DEC 1941NOV 1942JUL 1943OCT 1943JUN 1944SEP 1944JAN 1945MAY 19451945 —JUL 1937SEP 1940DEC 1941MAY 1942FEB 1943OCT 1944AUG 1945
BATTLES, EVENTS & SITES OF MEMORY
✕ Anzio● Armistice at Compiègne✕ Arnhem✕ August Storm◆ Auschwitz-Birkenau◆ Bataan✕ Battle of Moscow✕ Battle of the Bulge◆ Bombing of Dresden✕ Breakthrough at Sedan● Brest-Litovsk parade● Chongqing✕ Coral Sea✕ Danzig & Westerplatte● Doolittle Raid● Dunkirk evacuation✕ Eben-Emael✕ El Alamein✕ Fall of Berlin✕ Fall of Crete✕ Fall of Singapore◆ Firebombing of Tokyo✕ Guadalcanal◆ Hiroshima✕ Imphal & Kohima✕ Invasion of Sicily✕ Iwo Jima✕ Khalkhin Gol✕ Kiev encirclement✕ Kursk✕ Leyte Gulf● Liberation of Paris● Marco Polo Bridge● Meeting at the Elbe✕ Midway✕ Monte Cassino● Munich Conference◆ Nagasaki◆ Nanjing✕ Narvik✕ Normandy — D-Day● Occupation of Prague✕ Okinawa✕ Operation Torch✕ Pearl Harbor✕ Philippine Sea● Radar & the Channel✕ Raid on Taranto● Remilitarization of the Rhineland✕ Saipan✕ Salerno✕ Sevastopol✕ Siege of Budapest◆ Siege of Leningrad✕ Siege of Tobruk✕ Siege of Warsaw● Spanish Civil War✕ Stalingrad● Surrender in Tokyo Bay✕ Tarawa● The Anschluss✕ The Blitz✕ Tunis falls● Unconditional surrender◆ Warsaw Uprising✕ Winter War● Yalta Conference
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