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1. time.com › 6045753 › v-e-day-wwii-mythsThe Biggest Myths About WWII, According to a Historian | TIME

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   May 7, 2021 · Myth: Japan could have won World War II, if only the Japanese had bombed the oil depots at Pearl Harbor in addition to the ships. The USS Shaw exploding during the Japanese attack on the U.S ...

2. news.stanford.edu › stories › 2020World War II’s contradictory lessons | Stanford Report

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   May 4, 2020 · May 8, 1945, began the longest period of peace in European history. We should not take the absence of war for granted, nor should we lose sight of the policies that made a peaceful Europe possible ...

3. www.facinghistory.org › resource-library › post-warPost-War: Chaos and Challenges | Facing History & Ourselves

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   Aug 2, 2016 · After the German surrender in May 1945, World War II ended in Europe. Its most immediate legacies were death, devastation, and misery. The scale and speed of the conflict had been unprecedented: the war ended up killing at least 19 million non-combatant civilians in Europe. Of those, 6 million were Jews, a full two-thirds of the pre-war Jewish ...

4. fivebooks.com › best-books › world-war-ii-antony-beevorThe best books on World War II - Five Books

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   2 Hitler by Ian Kershaw. 3 Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid. 4 A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous. 5 Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder. Y ou have won numerous awards, sold millions of copies of your books and had them translated into lots of different languages.

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5. www.historyonthenet.com › the-marshall-planThe Marshall Plan: Rebuilding Europe After World War II

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   The Marshall Plan in Action. The Marshall Plan operated from 1948 to 1951, providing approximately $13 billion (equivalent to around $130 billion today) in economic aid to 16 European nations. The funds were used for a wide range of purposes, including rebuilding infrastructure, modernizing industries, and supporting agricultural development.

6. www.thehistorypress.co.uk › article › doing-their‘Doing their bit’: The female fighter pilots of World War II

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   Jun 12, 2017 · Twenty-five enthusiastic and experienced female flyers from the USA joined the ATA in 1942. Four women from New Zealand determinedly paid their own passage in order to be part of history. One woman, 19-year-old Margot ‘Chilli’ Duhalde, spoke no English at all on arrival, yet went forth with the same sense of courageous daring.

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   Which book reveals a part of World War II?

   • Your next book takes us to a part of World War II in which you have a particular interest. Leningrad by Anna Reid reveals the Nazis’ deliberate decision to starve the city of Leningrad into surrender. This was the longest and most devastating siege in the history of World War II.

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   Why is World War 2 so important?

   • But World War II continues to be the most important war in history because of the effect that it had on so many people’s lives and on so many countries. The most important lesson I ever learned came to me in the French archives when I was researching a book about Paris after the liberation.

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   What lessons did Germany learn from WW2?

   • The war provided two contradictory lessons: the first was that war was to be avoided at all costs, the second was that democracies had to be ready to resist aggression. The second lesson led most western European states, including Germany, to rearm and join the Atlantic alliance.

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   What was special about the female fighter pilots of World War II?

   • ‘Doing their bit’: The female fighter pilots of World War II By Jacky Hyams No, they told me again and again, there was nothing special about them. They were just ‘doing their bit’ for their country. Modest to a fault, these women faced danger, sudden death, serious injury or bereavement on an almost daily basis.

   ‘Doing their bit’: The female fighter pilots of World War II

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   Did Hitler really start World War II?

   • This notion is in 90% of the books written on the war in Europe, which is that every mistake, every wrong turn the Germans made, every stupid offensive they decided to launch, was Hitler’s idea. I’d love to blame Hitler for everything; he certainly started World War II, and he’s the author of the Holocaust, there’s no doubt about that.

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   Why do Americans remember the Second World War?

   • For Americans, it recalls a moment of triumph, a time to remember the accomplishments and sacrifices that made victory possible. The Second World War has a moral clarity for Americans that is not shared by the other participants, in large part because the U.S. was the only one to emerge from the war with greater wealth and power.

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8. academic.oup.com › gh › article-abstractRuin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe After World War II

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   Jul 12, 2021 · Extract. Addressing the grand theme of European recovery after the Second World War, Ruin and Renewal focuses on the concept of ‘civilization’ in order to discuss not just the physical reconstruction, but also the cultural and mental renewal of the old continent after 1945.