What Was The Holocaust? - Holocaust History | IWM
The Holocaust • The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. Videos you watch may be added to the TV's watch history and influence TV ...
Pre-First World War Alliances | Imperial War Museums
They planned to defeat France swiftly, before Russia could marshal its forces. The invasion of France and the violation of Belgian neutrality brought Britain into the war. Find out all you need to know about Pre-First World War allliances. The creation of a unified Germany in 1871 had disturbed the old 'balance of power'.
The Causes Of The First World War - Imperial War Museums
By the summer of 1914, Europe was in a crisis. Just weeks before Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, had been assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serbian-backed terrorist. Now just a few weeks later, the continent's largest armies were mobilizing against each other with new nations joining the fight seemingly every week.
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What You Need To Know About The Battle Of Stalingrad - Imperial …
Stalingrad was one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War. The Soviet Union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army in and around this strategically important city on the Volga river, which bore the name of the Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin. In the summer of 1942, Hitler launched a major offensive ...
Why D-Day Was So Important to Allied Victory In WW2 - Imperial …
But the German response to D-Day, when it came, was slow and confused thanks to a complex command structure and the successful Allied deception plan, which held open the threat of a landing in the Pas de Calais even into July. The key objective for D-Day - beyond establishing a firm foothold ashore - was the capture of the city of Caen, which ...
What Happened During The Battle Of The Somme? - Imperial War …
The Battle of the Somme (1 July - 18 November 1916) was a joint operation between British and French forces intended to achieve a decisive victory over the Germans on the Western Front after 18 months of trench deadlock. In December 1915, Allied commanders had met to discuss strategies for the following year and agreed to launch a joint French ...
Dunkirk Evacuation World War 2 - What You Need To Know
Second World War. Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk, involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940. The evacuation, sometimes referred to as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was a big boost for British morale. Prime Minister Winston Churchill recognised ...
Liberation Of The Concentration Camps WW2 - IWM
Bergen-Belsen was liberated by British forces on 15 April 1945. It had become exceptionally overcrowded after the arrival of survivors of the death marches. Thousands of unburied bodies lay strewn around the camp, while in the barracks some 60,000 starving and mortally ill people were packed together without food or water.
What You Need to Know About The Troubles - Imperial War …
The Troubles is a term used to describe a period of conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years, from the late 1960s until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. However, the origins of the Troubles can be traced back hundreds of years. The Plantation of Ulster at the beginning of the 17th century settled Protestants from lowland ...