Schedule of topics
Introduction and Overview. The roots of the conflict in Europe: I. Versailles and the end of European Supremacy. Rich: 3-77; Weinberg: 6-47.
II. Hitler’s World View. German Foreign policy after the Nazi Seizure of Power. Rich: 3-77. Weinberg: 6-47.
III. Fascist Italy in the nineteen thirties: Mussolini’s Drive for Empire. Weinberg: 6-47.
The Roots of the Conflict in the Pacific: I. The Emergence of Japanese expansionism. Beasley: 14-54
II. China and Japan to Manchukuo. Beasley: 55-141. Duus 131-145.
Appeasement and Isolationism: Europe and Asia: 1934-1938. Rich: 81-89. Beasley: 156-219.
Hitler’s First Strikes: Austria, Sudetenland and the destruction of Czechoslovakia. Rich: 90-120.
War in Europe: Operation Weserübung and Fall Gelb. The “Strange Defeat:” the Fall of France. The Battle of Britain. Rich 121-164; Weinberg 48-166.
Mussolini’s “Parallel War.” Rich: 165-203; Weinberg 205-238.
“Barbarossa:” Hitler’s attack on Russia. Rich 204-223; Weinberg 187-205; 264-305.
The Road to Pearl Harbor. The Japanese offensive in the Pacific. Rich: 224-250; Beasley 220-258; Duus 189-242: Weinberg 245-263
The Japanese “Southern Advance” to Midway. Weinberg 335-348.
The Pacific War to Mid-1944. Weinberg: 632-666.
The Battle of the Atlantic. Weinberg: 384-383.
War in Europe and North Africa, the downfall of Mussolini’s Regime. Weinberg 408-470.
Economic Mobilization and the Home fronts: Daily Life and Social Change during the Conflict. I. Germany and Italy. Weinberg 471-488.
II. Britain and the Commonwealth. The United States. Weinberg: 488-497.
III. Japan and China. Weinberg: 497-501.
IV. The Soviet Union: 501-503
Vichy France.
Nazi policies in occupied Europe. I
Nazi Policies in Occupied Europe II. The Final Solution.
New and Old Means of Warfare. Strategic Bombing Weinberg 535-586.
D Day and the end of the War in Europe. The Assault on Germany: Weinberg: 667-721.
Wartime Diplomacy. Weinberg: 721-749.
The End of the War in Europe Weinberg: 750-841
The End of the War in the Pacific: Weinberg: 842-89
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