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EUH 3931 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, 1940-1960

EUH 3931 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, 1940-1960. Divided Europe. Western Front, 1940-. Western Offensive, May 1940 July-October -- Battle for Britain: A turning point?

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EUH 3931 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, 1940-1960

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  1. EUH 3931 Review: From Second World War to Cold War, 1940-1960 Divided Europe

  2. Western Front, 1940- • Western Offensive, May 1940 • July-October -- Battle for Britain: A turning point? • October, 1940 -- Italy’s parallel war: Mussolini an asset or liability? African theater of war. • US/British relations up to 1941 (e.g., Lend/Lease). Battle of the Atlantic.

  3. Hitler’s War • Formation of Afrikakorps, February, 1941 • April, 1941 – Invasion of Balkans (Yugoslavia and Greece conquered and occupied.) • 22 June 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, December, 1941 • Battle of Stalingrad, 1942-43 (Kursk, etc.) • North African campaign/Italy defeated, 1941-1943 • Opening a second front: June, 1944: Operation Overlord and Bagration.

  6. Politics of War • War-time conferences: Casablanca, Teheran, Moscow, Yalta, Potsdam. • Events: Warsaw uprising of 1944. • Manhattan project • Role of personalities: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, etc.

  7. Pacific war, 1937-1945 • Japan invades China, 1937 • Japan attacks U.S./Great Britain, 1941 • Battle of Midway, June, 1941 • Eastern Fronts: Burma, S.E. Asia, China, Pacific theater (Philippines, etc.) • Allied (U.S.) Bombing campaign, 1944 - 1945

  8. End of War • Defeating Germany, 1944-1945: Significance of final battles (Arnhem, Bulge, Berlin) • Defeating Japan, Atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. USSR invades Manchuria. • Europe transformed: origins of Cold War • Greek Civil War, 1946-1949; Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan • Berlin Airlift, 1948-49

  9. Origins of Cold War, Asia • Korean conflict, 1950-1953 (role of China, USSR, and U.S. and U.N. forces.) • China in civil war and revolution, 1946-1949.

  10. De-colonization in South Asia and Southeast Asia • Independence of India (Pakistan), 1947 • 1945-1956 -- Independence movements in Vietnam, Malaya, and Indonesia (Dutch East Indies).

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