1. EUH 3206 REVIEW: FROM SECOND WORLD WAR TO COLD WAR, 1939-1968 Divided Europe

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. Politics of War War-time conferences Events: Warsaw uprising of 1944. Manhattan project Role of personalities: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, etc.

7. 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

8. Cold War, cont. Western democracies: Great Britain, France, and Italy – 1945-1965 Two Germanys – 1945-1965 Cold War after Stalin, 1953-1965 Khrushchev’s “secret speech” Suez Crisis, 1956, Hungarian Uprising, 1956 Berlin Crises, 1958-1961 (Berlin Wall) Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Czechoslovakian Crisis, 1968