World War II
Class Text;
-Michael J. Lyons, World War II: A Short History (Fifth Edition), (Pearson Education, 2010)
Content Outline
UNIT 1 - THE ORIGINS OF WORLD WAR II
Chapter 1 - World War I: The Great Turning Point
Chapter 2 - The Legacy of World War I
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the Dictators
Chapter 4 - The Road to War
UNIT 2 - GERMANY'S MARCH OF CONQUEST
Chapter 5 - Blitzkrieg in the East, Sitzkrieg in the West
Chapter 6 - Complications in the North: Finland, Denmark, Norway
Chapter 7 - The Fall of France
Chapter 8 - Britain Is Still an Island
Chapter 9 - The Plot Thickens: The Mediterranean and the Balkans
UNIT 3 - THE WAR BECOMES GLOBAL
Chapter 10 - Operation Barbarossa: Dream of Lebensraum
Chapter 11 - Hitler's New Order in Europe
Chapter 12 - America Enters the War
Chapter 13 - Japan Triumphant, December 1941-May 1942
UNIT 4 - THE TIDE TURNS
Chapter 14 - The Struggle for the Initiative in the Pacific
Chapter 15 - America Gains the Initiative in the Pacific
Chapter 16 - The Tide Turns in Russia: Stalingrad and Beyond
Chapter 17 - The Tide Turns in North Africa: El Alamein to Tunisia
Chapter 18 - Probing the Underbelly: Sicily and Italy
Chapter 19 - War in the Atlantic
Chapter 20 - Target Germany: The Allied Bombing Offensive
Chapter 21 - Total War and the Home Fronts
UNIT 5 - THE TRIUMPH OF THE ALLIES
Chapter 22 - Cross-Channel Invasion at Last: D Day to the German Border
Chapter 23 - The End of the Thousand-Year Reich
Chapter 24 - War on the Periphery: China, Burma, India
Chapter 25 - The Collapse of Japan
Aftermath