euh 3931 review: from second world war to cold war, 1940-1960
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EUH 3931 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, 1940-1960
Divided Europe
Western Front, 1940-O Western Offensive, May 1940O July-October -- Battle for Britain: A turning
point?O October, 1940 -- Italy’s parallel war:
Mussolini an asset or liability? African theater of war.
O US/British relations up to 1941 (e.g., Lend/Lease). Battle of the Atlantic.
Hitler’s WarO Formation of Afrika korps, February,
1941O April, 1941 – Invasion of Balkans
(Yugoslavia and Greece conquered and occupied.)
O 22 June 1941 -- Operation Barbarossa: How does it change the course of the war?
The “Inner War”OInternal developments: Creating
(colonizing) a “New Europe”; resistance movements; German hegemony in Europe; Life behind the lines; Women at War; role of intelligence and industrial productivity; the Holocaust and crimes against humanity.
Turning pointsO U.S. enters the war, December,
1941O Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-43
(Kursk, etc.)O North African campaign/Italy
defeated, 1941-1943O Opening a second front: June,
1944: Operation Overlord and Bagration.
Politics of WarO War-time conferences: Casablanca,
Teheran, Moscow, Yalta, Potsdam.O Events: Warsaw uprising of 1944.O Manhattan projectO Role of personalities: Roosevelt,
Churchill, Stalin, etc.
Pacific war, 1937-1945O Japan invades China, 1937O Japan attacks U.S./Great Britain,
1941O Battle of Midway, June, 1941O Eastern Fronts: Burma, S.E. Asia,
China, Pacific theater (Philippines, etc.)
O Allied (U.S.) Bombing campaign, 1944 - 1945
End of WarO Defeating Germany, 1944-1945:
Significance of final battles (Arnhem, Bulge, Berlin)
O Defeating Japan, Atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. USSR invades Manchuria.
O Europe transformed: origins of Cold WarO Greek Civil War, 1946-1949; Truman
Doctrine, Marshall PlanO Berlin Airlift, 1948-49
Origins of Cold War, Asia
O Korean conflict, 1950-1953 (role of China, USSR, and U.S. and U.N. forces.)
O China in civil war and revolution, 1946-1949.
De-colonization in South Asia and Southeast Asia
O Independence of India (Pakistan), 1947
O 1945-1956 -- Independence movements in Vietnam, Malaya, and Indonesia (Dutch East Indies).
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