12. The Second World War and Contemporary Europe
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
12.1 The Causes and Course of the Second World War
Precursors • Japanese Invasion of China (1937) • Molotov- Ribbentrop Pact (1939) • Invasion of Poland (1939)
War in the West • Invasion of Norway • Sitzkrieg • Invasion of France (1940)
The War Expands • Rommel in Africa • Operation Barbarossa (1941) • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
Turning of the Tide • Japanese “Victory Disease” • German Offensive (1942)
Turning of the Tide • Battle of Midway (1942) • Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
Pacific Theater • Island Hopping • Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa (1945) • Bombing Campaign • “Operation Downfall”
12.2 Postwar Europe
War Conferences • Atlantic Charter (1941) • Yalta Conference (1945) • Potsdam Conference (1945)
Toward the Cold War • Division of Germany • Marshall Plan/Truman Doctrine – “Containment”
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
12.3 Science, Philosophy, the Arts and Religion
Science • Atomic Energy • Three Mile Island/ Chernobyl • OPEC Oil Crisis
Arts • Theater of the Absurd – Waiting for Godot • “Youth Culture” • “Youth Revolt” - 1968
Religion • Second Vatican Council • Birth Control
12.4 Social and Political Developments
Social Developments • Birth Control • “Youth Revolt” • Green Parties • Nuclear Disarmament
Political Developments • Decolonization • Hungarian Uprising (1956)
Political Developments • Prague Spring (1968) • Détente (1970-1980)
Détente – European Style • Willy Brandt and the SPD • Ostpolitik
Return to the Cold? • Mikhail Gorbachev • Ronald Reagan • Arms Race/SDI
Collapse of the Iron Curtain • Fall of the Berlin Wall • Fall of the Soviet Union – Boris Yeltsin
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