Engross yourself in a comprehensive overview of the single largest event in history with this enthralling course by an Ivy League professor.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Origins of the Second World War
- 02: Hitler's Challenge to the International System, 1933-1936
- 03: The Failure of the International System
- 04: The Coming of War
- 05: Blitzkrieg
- 06: The German Offensive in the West
- 07: "Their Finest Hour"-Britain Alone
- 08: The Battle of Britain
- 09: Hitler Moves East
- 10: The Germans Before Moscow
- 11: The War in Asia
- 12: The Japanese Gamble
- 13: The Height of Japanese Power
- 14: Turning the Tide in the Pacific-Midway and Guadalcanal
- 15: The War in North Africa
- 16: War in the Mediterranean-The Invasions of Sicily and Italy
- 17: Stalingrad-The Turning Point on the Eastern Front
- 18: Eisenhower and Operation Overlord
- 19: D-Day to Paris
- 20: Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge
- 21: Advance Across the Pacific
- 22: Turning Point in the Southwest Pacific-Leyte Gulf and the Philippines
- 23: The Final Drive for Japan-Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo
- 24: War in the Air
- 25: Hitler's New Order in Europe
- 26: "The Man's Army"
- 27: Daily Life, Culture, and Society in Wartime
- 28: The Race for Berlin
- 29: Truman, the Bomb, and the End of the War in the Pacific
- 30: The Costs of War
Taught by
Thomas Childers
