EUH 3931 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, Divided Europe

Western Front, O Western Offensive, May 1940 O July-October -- Battle for Britain: A turning point? O October, 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 War O Formation of Afrika korps, February, 1941 O April, 1941 – Invasion of Balkans (Yugoslavia and Greece conquered and occupied.) O 22 June Operation Barbarossa: How does it change the course of the war?

The “Inner War” O Internal 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 points O U.S. enters the war, December, 1941 O Battle of Stalingrad, (Kursk, etc.) O North African campaign/Italy defeated, O Opening a second front: June, 1944: Operation Overlord and Bagration.

Politics of War O War-time conferences: Casablanca, Teheran, Moscow, Yalta, Potsdam. O Events: Warsaw uprising of O Manhattan project O Role of personalities: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, etc.

Pacific war, O Japan invades China, 1937 O Japan attacks U.S./Great Britain, 1941 O Battle of Midway, June, 1941 O Eastern Fronts: Burma, S.E. Asia, China, Pacific theater (Philippines, etc.) O Allied (U.S.) Bombing campaign,

End of War O Defeating Germany, : 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 War O Greek Civil War, ; Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan O Berlin Airlift,

Origins of Cold War, Asia O Korean conflict, (role of China, USSR, and U.S. and U.N. forces.) O China in civil war and revolution,

De-colonization in South Asia and Southeast Asia O Independence of India (Pakistan), 1947 O Independence movements in Vietnam, Malaya, and Indonesia (Dutch East Indies).