World War II: Battlefield Europe

Explore World War II’s dramatic European Theater from the perspective of a military strategist.

• By This Professor
• 01: The Battle of Moscow, December 1941
• 02: Anti-Semitism and the Nazis
• 03: Tearing Up the Treaty of Versailles
• 04: The War Begins, 1939
• 05: The Nazi Rise to Power, 1922–1933
• 06: The Fall of France, Spring 1940
• 07: The Battle of Britain—and the Blitz
• 08: Britain and Germany’s Standoff at Sea
• 09: Hitler, Stalin, and Operation Barbarossa
• 10: Roosevelt, Isolationism, and Lend-Lease
• 11: North Africa and the Battle of el-Alamein
• 12: The Battle of Stalingrad, 1942–1943
• 13: Resistance in Nazi-Occupied Europe
• 14: The Holocaust
• 15: U-Boats and the Battle of the Atlantic
• 16: The Allies Invade Italy: Sicily to Anzio
• 17: Strategic Bombing over Germany
• 18: Allied Industry, Spying, and Wonder Weapons
• 19: Soviets, Germans, and the Eastern Front
• 20: D-Day, June 1944
• 21: Hitler Runs Out of Options, Fall 1944
• 22: Soviet Push to Berlin and Yalta Power Play
• 23: Eisenhower’s Endgame in Europe
• 24: War’s End: Picking Up the Pieces