1. EUH 3931 REVIEW: SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945 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.) September, 1939 -- Allied response to invasion of Poland. November, 1939- March, 1940 --Russo-Finnish war. April – May, 1940 -- Scandinavian interlude (German invasion of Denmark, Norway.)

3. STAGE 2 Western Offensive, May – June, 1940 – Battle of France (collapse of Third Republic) July- October, 1940 --Battle for Britain: A turning point? October, 1940 -- Italy’s parallel war: Mussolini an asset or liability? African theater of war. (Invasion of Balkans in April, 1941) Britain stands alone? US/British relations up to 1941. Lend-Lease Agreement, March, 1941 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. Holocaust time-line – Nuremberg Laws, 1935; Kristallnacht, 1938; Invasion of Poland September, 1939 (Ghettoes); Invasion of USSR (June-July, 1941); Wannsee Conference, January, 1942.

5. TURNING POINTS U.S. enters the war, December, 1941 U.S. at war: Home-front; Women in war industries (e.g., Rosie the Riveter); propaganda. 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. 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:- Casablanca (1943), Tehran(1943), Moscow (1944), Yalta (1945), Potsdam (July, 1945). Events: Warsaw uprising of 1944. Manhattan project:- Hiroshima, Nagasaki. 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