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).