Schedule
Tue-Thu, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM (8/26/2019 - 12/6/2019) Location: MAIN CH 222
Tue, 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (12/10/2019 - 12/10/2019) Location: FINAL
Description
This course will cover the broad scope of the war, from its European roots in World War I and the peace settlement at Versailles in 1918, and include the attempts by the Japanese to take advantage of the civil war in China to conquer Manchuria, the rise of Mussolini and the Italian Fascists and Hitler and the Nazis of Germany, and will include a study of those far right regimes, as well as the development of the imperialistic, militaristic regime that gained power in Japan. The rising tensions of the late 1920s and early 1930s will be covered, including the outbreak of warfare in the Far East, the Spanish Civil War, the UK policy of appeasement, and the beginning of the European war in 1939. Included will be the entry of the USSR and the US into the war, and both the European and Pacific theaters, as well as the Holocaust, and finish with the aftermath of VE-Day in May of 1945, and VJ-Day in August of the same year. Included will be the US atomic bomb program and the first signs of