12. The Second World War and Contemporary Europe · Barbarossa (1941) • Japanese attack on Pearl...
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12. The Second World War and Contemporary Europe
Transcript of 12. The Second World War and Contemporary Europe · Barbarossa (1941) • Japanese attack on Pearl...
12.1 The Causes and Course of the Second World War 12.2 Postwar Europe 12.3 Science, Philosophy, the Arts and Religion 12.4 Social and Political Developments
Precursors • Japanese Invasion
of China (1937) • Molotov-
Ribbentrop Pact (1939)
• Invasion of Poland (1939)
The War Expands • Rommel in Africa • Operation
Barbarossa (1941) • Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor (1941)
Pacific Theater • Island Hopping • Battles of Iwo Jima
and Okinawa (1945) • Bombing Campaign • “Operation
Downfall”
Toward the Cold War • Division of Germany • Marshall Plan/Truman
Doctrine • Blockade of Berlin/
Berlin Airlift (1948)
Toward the Brink • De-Stalinization • John F. Kennedy vs.
Nikita Khrushchev • Berlin Wall (1961) • Cuban Missile Crisis