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WOH2040 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, 1939-1948

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

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WOH2040 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, 1939-1948

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

  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, 1942-43 (Kursk, etc.) • North African campaign/Italy defeated, 1941-1943 • Opening a second front, 1944: Operation Overlord and Bagration.

  6. War in the Pacific, 1937-1945 • July, 1937 – Japan invades China, initiating the war in Asia. • 1939-1942 -- 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, 1944-1945: Significance of final battles (Arnhem, Bulge, Berlin) • Europe transformed: origins of Cold War • Greek Civil War, 1946-1949; Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan • Berlin Airlift, 1948-49

  9. Asia and De-colonization, 1945-- • Civil War in China, 1946-1949 • 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 ĐiệnBiênPhủ, 1954. Vietnam divided. • From Malaya to Malaysia, 1945-1957. • The birth of Indonesia, 1945-1949.

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