1. WOH2040 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, 1939-1948
Divided Europe
WOH2040 Review: From Second World War to Cold War,

2. First Stage Outbreak of war: what were Hitler’s war aims in 1939?
Impact of Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 (division of Eastern Europe, etc.)
Allied response to invasion of Poland.
Russo-Finnish war/Scandinavian interlude

3. Stage 2 Western Offensive, May 1940
Battle for Britain: A turning point?
Italy’s parallel war: Mussolini an asset or liability? African theater of war.
Britain stands alone? US/British relations up to 1941.
Operation Barbarossa: How does it change the course of the war?

4. The “Inner War”
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.

5. Turning points U.S. enters the war, 1941
Battle of Stalingrad, (Kursk, etc.)
North African campaign/Italy defeated,
Opening a second front, 1944: Operation Overlord and Bagration.

6. War in the Pacific,
July, 1937 – Japan invades China, initiating the war in Asia.
Extent of Japanese expansion (occupation of China, Philippines, Southeast Asia)
Kuomintang and Communists against Japan
Limits of Japanese military/naval power: Battle of Midway (June, 1942), (Coral Sea, Guadalcanal)
Significance of India/Southeast Asia

7. Politics of War War-time conferences:--
Atlantic Charter, Casablanca, Tehran, Moscow, Yalta.
Events: Warsaw uprising of 1944.
Manhattan project
Role of personalities: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, etc.

8. End of War
Defeating Germany, : Significance of final battles (Arnhem, Bulge, Berlin)
Europe transformed: origins of Cold War
Greek Civil War, ; Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift,

9. Asia and De-colonization, 1945--
Civil War in China,
Triumph of Mao and communism: KMT begins long period of exile in Taiwan.
Japan in the Post-war era. (Role of U.S. in shaping post-war political structures of Japan.)

10. Asia and De-colonization, 1945--
Indochina – Nationalist movement led by Ho Chi Minh.
Battle of Điện Biên Phủ, Vietnam divided.
From Malaya to Malaysia,
The birth of Indonesia,