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HISTORY 387: WORLD WAR II Fall Semester 2001
The Twenty Years Truce Personalities: Places: Kaisar Wilhelm II Danzig (1) Transylvania (4) Prince Maximilian von Baden Memel (1) Banat of Temesvar (4) General Erich Ludendorff Kiaochow (1) Croatia-Slavonia (4) Field Marshall Paul Von Hindenberg Saar Basin (1) Slovakia (4) President Woodrow Wilson Dune & Heligoland (1) Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia (4) Secretary of State Robert Lansing South Tyrol (2) Burgenland (4) Colonel Edward House Trentino (2) Sudan (5, 6) David Lloyd George Trieste (2) Cyprus (5, 6) Marshall Ferdinand Foch Istria (2) Tripolitania (5, 6) George Clemenceau Dalmatia (2) Morocco (5, 6) Vittorio Orlando Bohemia (2) Tunisia (5, 6) Mohammed VI Moravia (2) Mesopotamia (5, 6) Mustapha Kemal (Atatürk) Silesia (2) Smyrna (5, 6) Bukovina (2) Rhodes (5, 6) Sudetenland (2) Dodecanese Islands (5, 6)
Treaties: 1) Treaty of Versailles (Germany) Bosnia (2, 4) Armenia (5, 6) 2) Treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye (Austria) Herzegovina (2, 4) Kurdistan (5, 6) 3) Treaty of Neuilly (Bulgaria) Macedonia (3) Anatolia (5, 6) 4) Treaty of Trianon (Hungary) Dobruja (3) Constantinople (5, 6) 5) Treaty of Sèvres (Turkey) Strumnitsa Salient (3) Albania (5,6) 6) Treaty of Lausanne (Turkey) Thrace (3) Straits (5,6)
Other Terms: Weimar Bolsheviks Russian Civil War Spartacists Vladimir Lenin Greco-Turkish War Freikorps Vladivostok Hashimate-Saudi War Bavarian Soviet Republic Czechoslovak Legion Kellogg-Briand Pact Magyar Intervention Hungarian Soviet Republic Murmansk Bela Kun Arkhangel German Austria (Deutschösterreich) Rapallo Anschluss Washington Conference Gabriele D'Annunzio London Conference
SOME QUESTIONS ON THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II:
1. Do you believe that World War II would have occurred if there had been no World War I? 2. How did the peace treaties (there were five of them) following the First World War create the tensions between and within states which would lead to World War II? 3. We have discussed how World War I paved the way for a second major conflict by the international consequences of the Paris Peace Conference, how did the war create the internal conditions for the development of authoritarian and totalitarian movements in many European countries?
Course Introduction and Lecture: THE TWENTY-YEARS TRUCE. Terms: Lusitania Reparations Outline: I. The Affects of the War. Zimmerman note East Prussia A) Economic Collapse. Romanovs Polish Corridor B) Social Dislocation. Hapsburgs Saar C) Political Instablility. Hohenzollerns Ruhr II. The Peace of Paris. Ottomans Rhineland A) Paris (1919) & Vienna (1815). Brest-Litovsk Tirol B) The Treaties. Clemenceau Weimar C) International Security. Lloyd-George Charles G. Dawes III. Conflicts after the First World War. Orl&o Little Entente A) The Russian Civil War. W. Wilson Balkan Entente B) Nationalism & Communism. Versailles Poland C) A New Europe St. Germaine Czechoslovakia IV. The Search for Peace & Security. Trianon Yugoslavia A) The French Alliance System. Neuilly Belgium B) The Reintegration of Germany. Sevres Ataturk C) Disarmament Chanak Lenin D) The League of Nations. Lausanne Cordone Sanitaire V. Political Instability & Economic Collapse. M&ates Locarno A) Inflation & Recovery. Alsace-Lorraine Rapallo B) Political Ferment Bolshevism Kellogg-Briand C) Depressions & Dictatorships.
Lecture: THE TWENTY YEARS TRUCE CONTINUED WITH AN EMPHASIS ON THE RISE OF THE DICTATORS. Authoritarianism Mussolini Manchuria I. Growth of Totalitarianism. VI. Tide of Aggression. Totalitarianism Blackshirts Ethiopia A) Definition. A) Manchuria & Ethiopia. Ideology Red Guards Haile Selassie B) Social/Economic Factors. B) The Spanish Civil War. Irredentism OVRA Loyalists C) Political Factors. C) Nazi Expansion,. Marxist Corporativism Nationalists II. Rise of Soviet Russia. D) The War Erupts. Bolshevik Weimar Francisco Franco A) Russian Revolutions. VII. Why Axis Aggression? Communist Streseman Rhineland B) Civil War. A) Nationalism/ Militarism. War Communism Hitler Volkdeutsch C) New Economic Policy. B) Propaganda CHEKA National Socialism Anchluss D) Rise of Stalin. C) Economic Penetration. Vladimir Lenin Sturmabteilung Sudetenland III. Rise of Fascist Italy. D) Diplomatic Maneuver. Josef Stalin Brownshirts Czechoslovakia A) Mussolini & Fascism. E) Appeasement & Disunity. Five-Year Plans Hindenberg Chamberlain B) Fascist State, 1922-1935. Collectivization Gestapo Munich IV. Rise of Nazi Germany. Forced Labor Schutzstaffel(S.S.) Danzig A) Weimar Germany. NKVD Anti-Semitism Polish Corridor B) Hitler & National Socialism. Cult of Personality Concentration Camps Fifth Column C) The Nazi State, 1933-1939. Fascism Youth movements V. Common Denominators of Totalitarianism.
Film: HITLER AND THE RISE OF NAZISM IN GERMANY
Lecture: DIPLOMATIC OVERVIEW OF EUROPE IN THE 1930's
THE TWENTY YEAR'S TRUCE---MORE TERMS AND QUESTIONS Personalities Places Kaisar Wilhelm II Danzig (1) Transylvania (4) Prince Maximilian von Baden Memel (1) Banat of Temesvar (4) General Erich Ludendorff Kiaochow (1) Croatia-Slavonia (4) Field Marshall Paul Von Hindenberg Saar Basin (1) Slovakia (4) President Woodrow Wilson Dune & Heligoland (1) Sub-Carpathian Ruthenia (4) Secretary of State Robert Lansing South Tyrol (2) Burgenland (4) Colonel Edward House Trentino (2) Sudan (5, 6) David Lloyd George Trieste (2) Cyprus (5, 6) Marshall Ferdinand Foch Istria (2) Tripolitania (5, 6) George Clemenceau Dalmatia (2) Morocco (5, 6) Vittorio Orlando Bohemia (2) Tunisia (5, 6) Mohammed VI Moravia (2) Mesopotamia (5, 6) Mustapha Kemal (Atatürk) Silesia (2) Smyrna (5, 6) Bukovia (2) Rhodes (5, 6) Treaties Sudetenland (2) Dodecanese Islands (5, 6) 1) Treaty of Versailles (Germany) Bosnia (2, 4) Armenia (5, 6) 2) Treaty of Saint Germain-en-Laye (Austria) Herzegovina (2, 4) Kurdistan (5, 6) 3 )Treaty of Neuilly (Bulgaria) Macedonia (3) Anatolia (5, 6) 4 )Treaty of Trianon (Hungary) Dobruja (3) Constantinople (5, 6) 5) Treaty of Sèvres (Turkey) Strumnitsa Salient (3) Albania (5,6) 6) Treaty of Lausanne (Turkey) Thrace (3) Straits (5,6) Other Terms: Weimar Bolsheviks Russian Civil War Spartacists Vladimir Lenin Greco-Turkish War Freikorps Vladivostok Hashimate-Saudi War Bavarian Soviet Republic Czechoslovak Legion Kellogg-Briand Pact Magyar Intervention Hungarian Soviet Republic Murmansk Bela Kun Arkhangel German Austria (Deutschösterreich) Rapallo Anschluss Washington Conference Gabriele D'Annunzio London Conference
SOME QUESTIONS ON THE CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II: 1. Do you believe that World War II would have occurred if there had been no World War I? 2. How did the peace treaties (there were five of them) following the First World War create the tensions between and within states which would lead to World War II? 3. We have discussed how World War I paved the way for a second major conflict by the international consequences of the Paris Peace Conference, how did the war create the internal conditions for the development of authoritarian and totalitarian movements in many European countries? 4. What are the common denominators of totalitarian regimes of the interwar period? 5. Do you believe that Nazism would have arisen in Germany without a Hitler, or Fascism in Italy without a Mussolini? 6. What would you say was the most important immediate cause of the Second World War? 7. Was there a point of no return following which Axis aggression could not be stopped short of large scale war? 8. Are we not judging from the benefit of hindsight in trying to say that war could have been averted indefinitely?
Lecture: The Outbreak and Early Course of the Second World War
Blitzkrieg Hel Peninsula Mannerheim Teschen Bzura Suomi Polish Corrider Vistula Tukachevsky Danzig Warsaw Altmark Posen Bug Narvik von Runstedt Sitzkrieg Trondheim von Bock Phony War Bergen Guderian Siegfried Line Home Army Smigly-Rydz Maginot Line Anders Army Anders Graf Spee Mannheim Kutrzeba Finland Holocaust I. The Outbreak of the War. A. Diplomatic Prelude. B. The opposing forces. C. Deployment. II. The Invasion of Poland. A. The Blitzkrieg. B. Polish Counterattacks and Defense. C. Inactivity of the Western Allies. D. The Fall of Poland and Its Division. E. The fate of Poland. III. The Phony War. A. Sitzkrieg. B. Winter War C. Offensive and Defensive Plans. IV. Invasion of Denmark and Norway. A. Prelude to Attack. B. Danish Operation. C. The Attack on Norway. D. The Battle of Norway. V. Conclusion.
Lecture: THE FALL OF FRANCE. Russo-Finnish War Maginot Line Dunkirke I. Parallel Conflicts and Preliminaries. Winter War Schlieffen Plan Aisne A) The Phony War. Karelian-Ingrian Isthmus Plan Gelb Somme B) The Winter War. Lake Ladoga Gerd Von Rundstedt Rouen C) Scandinavian Imbroglio. Mannerheim Line Erich Von Manstein Erwin Rommel D) Denmark and Norway. Gallivare Iron Fields Heinz Gunderian Chalons II. Campaign in the West: Narvik Ardennes Marshall Henri Petain A) Strength & Disposition of Forces. Norway Rotterdam Jean Monnet B) Germany. British Expeditionary Force Antwerp Charles De Gaulle C) France and England. Lord John Gort Liege Benito Mussolini D) The Low Countries. RAF (Royal Air Force) Albert Canal Rethondes E) Strategic and Tactical Factors. Daladier Eben Emael Vichy III. Campaign in the West: War Plans. Paul Reynaud Namur Alexandria A) Allied. Maurice Gamelin Sichelschnitt Mers-El-Kebir B) German. Alphonse Georges Winston Churchill Oran IV. Campaign in the West: May 1941. Holland Abbeville Free France A) The Battle of Flanders. Belgium Maxime Weygand B) The Ardennes Drive. C) Dunkirke and Withdrawal. STRENGTH OF OPPOSING ARMED FORCES, MAY 1940 V. Fall of France German Allied A) Military Disaster, June 5-June 25. Men: 2,000,000 2,000,000 B) Diplomatic Ramifications. Divisions: 136 135 [94 French, 10 British, 22 C) The Armistice and Surrender. Belgian, 9 Dutch] D) Consequeces. Tanks: 2,439 2,689 Aircraft: 3,200 2,400
Film: THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Lecture: THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN AND THE BALKAN INTERLUDE Dunkirk Rome Berlin Axis Behlen King Peter Churchill Tripartite Pact Romania Belgrade Home Guard Roosevelt Bessarabia Simovich RAF Lend Lease Bukovina William Donovan Hugh Dowding Stimson-Leyton Agrmnt Transylvania SOE Radar Newfoundland Ploesti OSS Hurricanes Bermuda Antonescu Marita Spitfires Bahamas King Carol Croatia Luftwaffe Jamaica King Michael Serbia Heinkels Antigua Bulgaria Macedonia Junkers St. Lucia Dobrudja Vojvodina Messerschmidt 109/110 Trinidad King Boris Banat Franz Halder British Guiana Greece Montenegro OKW Mussolini Helle Slovenia OKH Tripolitania (Libya) John Metaxas Dalmatia OKM Ethiopia Albania Iraq Karl Raeder Sudan Epirus Rashid Ali Operation Sea Lion Egypt Taranto Lebanon Herman Goering Suez Canal Crete Syria Coventry Hungary Yugoslavia Iran London Admiral Horthy Prince Paul Reza Shah I. Prelude and British Preparation. A. British Armament and Manpower. B. The Royal Navy. C. The Royal Air Force. D. Radar. E. Churchill in Command. II. German Preparation. A. Operation Sea Lion. B. Russia or England? C. Feasibility of a Cross Channel Invasion. D. The Luftwaffe. III. The Battle of Britain. A. Stage One. B. Stage Two. C. Stage Three. IV. The Affect and Aftermath of the Battle of Britain. A. Diplomatic Affects. B. Naval Affects. C. Air Power Consequences. D. The Anglo-American Connection. V. Balkan Interlude. A. Rumania, Hungary amd Bulgaria. B. Greco-Italian War. C. Axis Invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia. D. Middle East Ramifications. VI. Conclusions
Lecture : BARBAROSSA--THE INVASION OF RUSSIA AND THE EASTERN FRONT, 1941-1943 Terms: Outline: Leningrad Internationale kolkhoz I. The Coming of War. Donets Dmitrii Donskoi Urals A) Uneasy Peace. Maikop Kursk Arkhangelsk B) The Soviet Military. Baku Kharkov Von Paulus C) The German Invasion. Tsaristyn Dnieper El Alamein II. Galvanizing the Soviet Home Front. Stalingrad lebensraum Operation Torch A) Economic Policy. Volgograd herrenvolk Second Front B) Political and Social Policy. G. Zhukov untermenschen T-34 III. The Eastern Front, 1942-1943. Yenikal Andrei Vlasov KV-1 A) Conventional War. Kerch Partisans Arkhangel B) Unconventional War. Taman' Östarbeiter Murmansk C) Diplomacy Murmansk Kursk salient Dnieper IV. Factors in the Outcome of the Conflict in the East. Iran Smolensk Konev A) Manpower. Lend Lease Kiev Don B) Equipment. T-34 Ukraine Donets C) Tactics. YAK Belorussia Kharkov D) Strategy. Aerocobra Crimea Leningrad VI. Conclusions. Manstein Sevastopol Finland Kleinst Pripet marshes Mannerheim Line Zhukov Korum Salient Viborg (Vipuri) Rokossovsky Odessa Malinovsky Sokolovski
Film: THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC, 1939-1944
Lecture: THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC, 1939-1945 Erich Raeder Dakkar Hedgehogs Karl Doenitz Brazil Squids Graf Spee Labrador Sonar FockeWulf Morocco Radar U-Boats Greenland Radio Interception Q-Boats Iceland Centimeter Waves Scharnhorst Murmansk Tirpitz Gneisenau Arkhangel Lancasters Bismarck Dirigibles Liberators Convoy Depth Charges Escort Carriers Labrador Newfoundland Baby Carriers. I. Introduction. II. The Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1941. A) The U-Boats. B) Air Attacks. C) Raiders. D) The Convoy System. III. The Battle of the Atlantic, 1942-1943. A) The Convoys vs. Wolfpacks. B) The Murmansk Run. C) An Assessment and a Turnover. D) The Tide Turns, Spring-Summer 1943. IV. Factors which Led to the Allied Victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. A) The Convoy System. B) Sonar and other Detection Devises. C) Air superiority. D) Occupation of Key Locations. D) Production. V. Conclusions
Lecture: THE AIR BATTLE OVER GERMANY, 1942-1945. Julio Douhet Ruhr P-47 Thunderbolts Hugh Trenchard Berlin P-51 Mustangs William "Billy" Mitchell Kammhuber Line 9th Air Force Lufwaffe FokkeWolfe 2nd Tactical Air Force Cologne Messerschmidt Dresden Essen Nurenberg Bulge Bremen Arthur "Bomber" Harris Ardennes B-17 Flying Fortress Carl Spaatz V-1 B-24 Liberators Ira Eaker V-2 Lancasters James Doolittle Transatlantic Bomber Halifaxes Schweinfurt Jet Propelled planes RAF Bomber Command Ploesti P-39 Aerocobra 8th Air Force P-36 Lightnings I. Introduction. A) Stategic Bombing Theory B) English and American Bomber Fleets. C) German use of Strategic Bombing, 1939-1941. D) Allied Strategic Bombing. II. Beginning of the Allied Air Offensive. A) First Major British Raids. B) First Major American Raids. C) Pattern of the Air Offensive. D) Evolution of the Air Offensive. III. The British Air Offensive. A) British targets. B) German Countermeasures. IV. The American Air Offensive. A) American Targets. B) German Countermeasures. C) Ploesti. D) The impact of Long-Range Fighters. V. The Shift in Targets. A) Tactical Support. B) Dresden. C) Last German Efforts. VI. Conclusion.
Film: THE BOMBING OF GERMANY, 1942-1945.
Lecture: JAPAN IN THE 1930'S. I. Introduction. II. Affect of World War I on Japan. A) Economic Expansion. B) Territorial Expansion. III. The Rise of Authoritarianism. A) Parliamentary Government. B) Authoritarianism and Imperialism. C) Manchuria. IV. China after World War I. A) Social and Economic Problems. B) The Spheres of Influence. C) Warlordism. D) Nationalist and Communists. E)Kuomintang-Communist Alliance. V. Japanese Aggression and Chinese Internal Politics. A) The Long march. B) Resumption of Cooperation. C) Kuomintang Government in the 1930's. VI. The Sino-Japanese War A) Shanghai B) Nanking. C) The Burma Road. D) Japan and the War in Europe. E) Japan and the United States. VI. Conclusions.
Lecture: THE UNITED STATES AND THE WAR I. America--Home of the Great Depression. II. Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal. III. The United States and the Global Crisis, 1931-1940. A) Manchuria. B) Ethiopia C) Sino-Japanese War D) Spanish Civil War E) The Rise of Nazi Germany. IV. Isolationism and Engagement. A) Isolationist Legislation. B) Engagement in International Affairs. C) Response to European Events. D) Lend-Lease and the North Atlantic. E) Collision Course with Japan. V. United States Preparedness, 1937-1940. A) Changing American Attitudes. B) Moves towards Preparedness, 1938-1939. C) Moves towards Preparedness, 1940. VI. The Armed Forces. A) The Army. B) The Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. C) The Air Forces. D) Reserve and National Guard. IV. The Second Trump Card. A) Manpower. B) Industrial Strength. C) Arsenal of Democracy.
Lecture: PEARL HARBOR
Lecture: JAPANESE EXPANSION AFTER PEARL HARBOR
Film: DESERT THE WAR IN NORTH AFRICA
Lecture: SICILY AND THE ITALIAN CAMPAIGN, 1943-1945 Casablanca Albert Kesselring I. The Invasion of Sicily. "Husky" Sangro River A) Preparations and Landings. Syracuse Garigliano River B) The Land Campaign. Patton Rapido River C) Political Ramifications. Montgomery Gustav Line D) Allied Occupation. Messina SOE II. The Italian Campaign in 1943. Mussolini Corsica A) Crossing of Messina Straits and Italian Surrender. Victor Ernmanuel III Sardinia B) The German Response and the Salerno Landings. Pietro Badoglio Italian Social Republic C) Liberation of Naples and German Defensive Strategy. AMGOT Partigiani D) The Nature of the Opposing Forces. ACC Rhodes/ Cos III. The Parallel Impact of the Italian Campaign. Bari Leros/Samos A) Italian Airfields. Foggia Anzio B) Corsica and Sardinia. Eighth Army Monte Cassino C) The Strategic Opening of the Mediterranean. Fifth Army Gothic Line D) Mussolini and the Italian Social Republic. Mark Clark "Dragoon" E) P.O.W.'s and Italian Antifascist Resistance. Salerno 442nd RCT F) A Feint in the Aegean. IV. The Italian Campaign in 1944-45 A) Anzio. B) Monte Cassino and Rome. C) The Strategic and Political Situation. D) The End in Italy. V. Conclusions.
Lecture : THE EASTERN FRONT, 1943-1945 Murmansk Kursk salient Slovakia I. Factors in the Outcome of the Conflict in the East. Iran Smolensk Danube A) Manpower. Lend Lease Kiev Bucharest B) Equipment. T-34 Ukraine Bulgaria C) Tactics. YAK Belorussia Yugoslavia D) Strategy. Aerocobra Crimea Hungary II. The Eastern Front, 1943-1944. Manstein Sevastopol Budapest A) The Aftermath of Stalingrad., Feb.-Mar. 1943 Kleinst Pripet marshes Latvia B) The Soviet Summer offensive., Jul.-Nov. 1943 Zhukov Korum Salient E. Prussia D) The Soviet Winter Offensive, Jan.-Mar. 1944 Rokossovsky Odessa Oder E) The Drive into Eastern Europe, Jun-Aug.1944. Malinovsky Romania Elbe F)"Liberation" of Eastern Europe,Aug-Dec.1944. Konev Leningrad Berlin III. The Final Offensive. Sokolovski Finland Doenitz A) Drive Into Germany, Jan.-Feb. 1945. Stalingrad Mannerheim Line Eisenhower B) The Danubian Campaign, Jan.-Apr. 1945. Don Viborg (Vipuri) Patton C) The Baltic Coast, Feb.-Apr. 1945. Donets Vistula Hodges E) The End, Apr.- May 1945. Kharkov Poland IV. Conclusions.
Film: RED SNOW
Lecture: THE INVASION OF FORTRESS EUROPE D-DAY AND ITS AFTERMATH I. Allied Strategy and Plans for Operation OVERLORD. A) The Strategic Decision. B) The Plans for the Operation. C) The Forces for the Operation. II. German Plans for Defense: III. Operation "OVERLORD" A) D Day--6 June 1944. B) Attempts at Expansion, 7-18 June. C) Fall of Cherbourg. 27 June. D) Expansion of the Beach-head. 1-24 July. IV. Operation "COBRA"and Breakout A) Breakthrough. 25-31 July. B) The Third Army Arrives. V. Conclusion.
Lecture: THE RECOVERY OF FRANCE, INCLUDING THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Lecture: THE END OF NAZISM, 1944-1945 I. The Soviet Drive into Eastern Europe, Jun-Aug. 1944. A) The Battle for Belorussia. B) The Defeat of Finland. C) The Crimea. D) The Advance into Poland. II. The Liberation" of Eastern Europe, Aug.-Dec. 1944. A) The Warsaw Uprising. B) The Slovak Uprising. C) Romania. D) Bulgaria. E) Yugoslavia. F) Greece. G) Hungary. H) Hitler's mistakes in 1944 on the Eastern Front III. The Anglo-American advance on the Rhine, Jan.-Mar. 1945. A) German Offensive in Lorraine and Alsace. B) Allied Advances in the North. D) End of the Colmar "Pocket." E) Clearing the Rhineland. F) The Remagen Bridge. G) Clearing the Palatinate. IV. The Rhine Crossings, Mar.-Apr. 1945. A) Oppenheim. B) Wesel. C) Remagen. D) Worms-Mannheim. V. The German Collapse in the West, Mar.-May 1945 A) Eisenhower's Change of Plan. B) Ruhr Encirclement. March 28-April 18. C) Final Operations. April 18-May 7. D) German Dissolution. 1945, May 5-7. VI. The Final Soviet Offensive. A) Drive Into Germany, Jan.-Feb. 1945. B) The Danubian Campaign, Jan.-Apr. 1945. C) The Baltic Coast, Feb.-Apr. 1945. E) The End, Apr.- May 1945. IV. Conclusions.
Lecture: OCCUPATION EUROPE, 1939-45. Herrenvolk Anschluss Vienna Awards Front National Untermenschen Bohemia and Moravia Transylvania Forces Francaises d'Interieur Volkdeutsch Reichprotectorate Iron Guard Armija Krajowa Jews Slovakia Arrow Cross Armija Ludowa genocide Albania Bulgaria Chetniks Gypsies King Zog Yugoslavia Partisans Slavs Poland Serbia Draza Mihailovic Czechoslovakia Government General Croatia Josef Broz Tito Poland Denmark Ustashe Balli Kombetar Yugoslavia Norway Ante Pavelic Legaliteti. Soviet Union Quisling Montenegro Enver Hoxha Forced Labor Holland Dalmatia EAM-ELAS Slave Labor Belgium Bosnia Herzegovina EDES camps France Voivodina EKKA Wehrmacht Marshal Petain Kosovo Special Operations Executive Schutzstaffel Pierre Laval Denmarks Friehadsraad Office of Strategic Services Volunteer forces Admiral Darlan Milorg Propaganda S.S. Polizei Romania Het Verzet Sabotage Einsatzgruppen Hungary maquis Deception I. Nazi Occupation Policies. A) Racial Policies. B) Economic Exploitation. C) Mobilization of Resources. II. The Occupation of Europe. A) The Greater Reich. B) The Pro-Axis Collaborating Regimes. C) The Occupied Countries. 1) Scandinavia and the Low Countries. 2) France. 3) The Balkans. 4) Poland. 5) The Soviet Union. III. Resistance. A) Forms of Resistance. 1) Passive. 2) Armed. 3) Eastern and Western Europe. B) Guerrillas and Partisans. C) Reprisals. D) Politics of Resistance. E) Allied Missions. IV. Conclusion.
Lecture: THE HOLOCAUST Nuremberg laws Dachau Auschwitz Kristalnacht Treblinka Chelmo Concentration Camps Einsatzgruppen Babi Yar SS Theresienstadt Kapos SD Wanasee Protocal gummi Gestapo Lidice Farber Heinrich Himmler Reinhard Heydrich Zyklon B Adolf Eichmann Misko reservation Sobibor Death camps Madagascar I. The Nazis and the development of Official Anti Semitism in Germany. A) The Anti-Semitic Ideology of the Nazi Party. B) Hitler's Obsession. C) Anti-Semitic Legislation of the Third Reich. D) The Spread of Anti-Semitic laws. II. The Development of the Concentration Camp System. A) Precedents and Parallels.. B) The Initiation of Nazi Concentration Camps. C) From Concentration to Death Camps, 1933-1941. D) Guards and inmates. III. Anti-Semitic Programs in Occupied Europe. A) The Spread of Anti-Semitic legislation. B) The Role of the SS, SD and Gestapo. C) The Einsatzgruppen. D) Reservation Policy. E) Expulsion Policy. IV. The Policy of Genocide. A) The First Death Camps. B) The Wanasee Conference. C) Deportation. V. The Death Camps. A) How the Death camps worked. B) The Industrialization of Death.. C) The Danger of Liberation.. VI. Conclusion..
THE HOLOCAUST The following figures are only estimates, especially for the countries of eastern and southern Europe. (They are based on the data of historians Raul Hilberg and Gerald Reitlinger.) Country Number of Jews Number of Victims in 1938 Minimum Maximum Germany and Austria 340,000 218,000 240,000 Belgium 90,000 25,000 28,000 The Netherlands 140,000 104,000 104,000 Luxembourg 3,000 2,800 3,000 France 270,000 60,000 65,000 Italy 51,000 8,500 9,500 Denmark 6,500 less than 100 Norway 2,000 700 700 Czechoslovakia 164,000 90,000 95,000 Poland 3,300,000 2,350,000 3,000,000 Soviet Union 5,000,000 700,000 900,000 Hungary 725,000 200,000 300,000 Yugoslavia 72,000 55,000 60,000 Bulgaria 50,000 --------- ----------- Rumania 800,000 200,000 300,000 Greece 69,000 57,000 60,000 Total 11,082,500 4,071,000 5,165,200
Film: RESISTANCE
Lecture: THE WAR IN THE PACIFIC, 1941-1944 Leyte Gulf Sea of Japan Truk Bismarck Sea Luzon Kwajelin Guadalcanal "The Slot" Eniwetok Okinawa Peleleu Marianas Guam Tinian Saipan Marianas Gilberts Guam Tarawa Marshalls Carolines Midway MacArthur Hollandia Coral Sea Nimitz Philippines Solomons Halsey King I. The Turning Points-Coral Sea and Midway. II. Strategy and Theaters. A) Japanese Strategy. B) Allied Strategy. III. Southwest Pacific. A) Guadalcanal. B) Solomons. C) New Guinea. D) Flanking amphibious landings and Island hopping. IV. Central Pacific. A) Carrier Warfare. B) Submarine Warfare. C) The Dangers of Island hopping: Tarawa. V. The Twin Drives in the Pacific, 1943-1944. A) Central Pacific. B) Southwest Pacific. VI. The Strategic debate over the Pacific Campaign in 1944. A) Philipinnes Campaign . B) The Air War and the Central Pacific Campaign. VII. Conclusion---Closing in.
Lecture: THE CHINA-BURMA-INDIA THEATRE, 1941-1945 C.B.I. Muhammad Ali Jinnah I. General Themes. Yenan Jawaharlal Nehru A) The Problem of China. Nanking Stafford Cripps B) Coalition Differences Over Strategy. Chungking Subhas Chandra Bose C) The Problem of India. Chiang Kai-Shek "Free India" D) Problems in Tactics. Mao Tse-Tung William Slim E) Developments in warfare. Kuomintang Frank Merrill F) Results and Consequences. warlords Marauders II. The China-Burma-India Theatre--First Phase. 8th Route Army Myitkyina A) The Japanese Offensive in Burma. 1942. Burma Road Ledo Road B) Allied countermoves, 1942. Lashio Arakan D) The First Arakan Campaign, 12/42-5/43. Rangoon Mutaguchi E) The First Chindit Raid, 2/43-4/43. The Hump Kohima F) The Chinese Under Stillwell, 2/43-12/43. Claire Chennault Imphal III. The China-Burma-India Theatre--Second Phase. Flying Tigers Mandalay A) The Second Arakan Campaign, 12/43-4/44. Joseph Stilwell Albert C. Wedemeyer B) The Japanese thrust Into India, 4/44-9/44. Archibald Wavell Hoyataro Kimura C) Second Chindit Raid, 3/44-7/44. Louis Mountbatten Harold Alexander D) North Burma Activities, 1/44-8/44. Claude Auchinleck Kunming E) Japanese Offensive in S. China, 5/44-12/44. Orde Windgate Kwantung Army IV. The China-Burma-India Theatre--Third Phase. Chindits W.D.A. Lentaigne A) Northern Burma and China, 12/44-8/45. Marianas C. N. Hunter B) Central Burma, 12/44-8/45. Mohandas K. Gandhi Dan I. Sultan V. Conclusions.
Lecture: THE ASSAULT ON JAPAN, 1944-1945 I. The Pacific Theatre of Operations in 1944. A) Strategic situation. B) Its Relations to Operations in Asia. C) Formosa (Taiwan) or the Philipinnes. II. The Battle of Leyte Gulf. A) The U. S. Landings. B) The Japanese Countermove. C) The Sibuyan Sea D) Surigao Strait. E) San Bernadino. F) Halsey vs. Ozawa. G) The Results. III. The Pacific Theatre of Operations in 1945. A) Allied Assets. B) Japanese Assets. C) Bringing in the Soviets. IV. Iwo Jima. A) The American Operation. B) The Japanese Defence. C) The Results. V. Okinawa. A) Preliminaries. B) Initiation of Landings. C) Japanese Countermoves. D) The Three-Month Campaign. E) The Results. VI. Conclusions. A) The Question of how to defeat Japan. B) Remaining Japanese Assets. C) Casualties. D) The Air War.
Lecture: THE AIRWAR OVER JAPAN
Discussion: THE NUCLEAR WAR: HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
Lecture: THE POLITICS OF WORLD WAR II Terms: Outline: Franklin D. Roosevelt Ukraine I. Diplomacy. Winston Churchill Kuriles A) The Grand Alliance. Josif Stalin Sakalin B) The Second Front. Harry S Truman Volkdeutsch II. The Allied Conferences. Clement Atlee Turkey A) The Atlantic Meeting. Lend-Lease Iran B) Washington and London Conferences. Murmansk Libya C) Trident-Washington. Iran Galicia D) Quadrant-Quebec. Chang Kai-Shek Berlin E) Moscow Hans Morgenthau France F) Cairo. Casablanca Italy F) Casablanca. Teheran Balkans G) Teheran. Yalta United Fronts F) Octagon-Quebec. Potsdam Ruthenia E) Churchill in Moscow. Baltic States Bulgaria F) Yalta. Bukovina Greece G) Potsdam Bessarabia Yugoslavia III. Occupation Zones & Spheres of Influence. E. Poland Hungary A) Anglo-Americans in Western Europe. Oder-Niesse Partisans B) Soviets in Eastern Europe. Curzon Line Josip Broz Tito C) The Stalin-Churchill Agreement. Lublin Enver Hoxha D) Problems of Liberation. Belorussia EAM/ELAS IV. Expansion of the Soviet Union. A) Finland and the Baltic States. B) Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. V. The Division of Europe. A) Western Europe. B) Eastern Europe.
Lecture: THE AFTERMATH AND CONSEQUENCES OF WORLD WAR II I. Destruction of the Second World War. A) Casualties. B) Displaced persons and refugees. C) Economic Destruction. II. Economic Recovery. A) Western Europe. B) Eastern Europe. III. Towards Cold War. A) Occupation Zones & Zones of Influence. B) Expansion of the Soviet Union. C) Territorial Changes. D) Division of Europe. E) Asia and the Pacific. F) In the Shadow of the Superpowers. IV. Conclusions.
DESTRUCTION OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR I. DEATHS. 17,000,000 KIA, 18,000,000 civilians. 1) Soviet. 7.5 million military, 13 million civilian. 2) Chinese. 2.5 million to 13 million. 3) German. 3,000, 0000 military, 500,000 to 1,000,000 civilian 4) Japanese. 1.5 million military, 500,000 civilian 5) Italy. 400,000 military, 100,000 civilian 6) Britain and France. 400,000 military, 100,000 civilian each 7) The United States. 500,000 military, few thousand civilian 8) Poland. 300,000 military, 7 million civilians (3 million Jews). 9) Yugoslavia. 400,000 military, 1,000,000 civilian 10) Greece. 150,000 military, 500,000 civilian. II. Displaced persons and refugees. 30,000,000. 1) German Volkdeutsch--9,000,000 from Poland, 3 million from Sudetenland, Baltic, elswhere. 2) Slave labor and concentration camp victims. 3) Repatriated collaborators. 4) Others. III. Economic Destruction. 4,000,000,000,000. 4 trillion dollars 1) Thousands of Towns, villages destroyed. Battlegrounds, air attack, reprisal. Germany, Italy, Japan, Soviet Union. 2) Industrial complex, communications, transportation, resources, agriculture crippled. 3) Starvation, disease. cholera, typhus. 4) Widespread Destruction in China, Burma, Philippines, Japan in Asia.
