1. HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013
Lecture Nineteen: World War II

2. Nazi Foreign Policy German Military Policy under Stresemann
The Saar Plebiscite
Hitler’s Repudiation of Versailles
The Spanish Civil War
Remilitarization of the Rhineland

3. Preparing for War Building a War Economy Goal of Lebensraum
Hossbach Memorandum and Hitler’s Goals
The Anschluss with Austria
Purge of the Army Leadership
The Sudeten Crisis
The Munich Agreement

4. War Begins Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact Blitzkrieg
From “Sitzkrieg” to Conquest in the West
From Dunkirk to the Battle of Britain
The Balkans and Greece
Operation Barbarossa

5. The Home Front The Problem of Supplying War
Albert Speer and the Armaments Ministry
Forced Labor
The Beginning of the Bombing Campaign
The Destruction of Hamburg

6. The Course of War Conduct of War in Russia The First Reverse
Renewed Offensive and the Path to Stalingrad
U-Boat War in the Atlantic
North Africa and Italy
The Search for a Secret Weapon -- Jet Aircraft, V-1 and V-2 Rockets

7. Collapse The Russian Advance D-Day, the Ring Closes
Intensified Bombing Campaign
Failure of Military Industry