Marked Warsaw

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Second World War

The deadliest war in history was fought from Europe to the Pacific, killing around 70 to 85 million people, most of them civilians. It ended with Germany’s surrender and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Place
Warsaw · London · Stalingrad · Bletchley Park · Normandy · HiroshimaThe whole world
Laid out as
A warTwo sides, a front line, and the turns the fighting took.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

The Allies: Britain and its empire, the Soviet Union, the United States, China and others

  1. IWhy war came again
  2. IIBlitzkrieg and the Blitz
  3. IIIThe Eastern Front
  4. IVThe war in Asia and the Pacific
  5. VCodebreakers
  6. VID-Day
  7. VIIThe atomic bombs

The Axis: Germany, Japan, Italy and others

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Winston Churchill
  • Adolf Hitler
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Noor Inayat Khan
  • Alan Turing
  • Chiune Sugihara

Objects

  • Enigma machines
  • Ration books

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1939 to 1945. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?