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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

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  • 12. The Second World War and

Contemporary Europe

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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

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12.1 The Causes and Course of the Second World War

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Precursors

  • Japanese Invasion
  • f China (1937)
  • Molotov-

Ribbentrop Pact (1939)

  • Invasion of Poland

(1939)

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War in the West

  • Invasion of

Norway

  • Sitzkrieg
  • Invasion of France

(1940)

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The War Expands

  • Rommel in Africa
  • Operation

Barbarossa (1941)

  • Japanese attack
  • n Pearl Harbor

(1941)

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Turning of the Tide

  • Japanese “Victory

Disease”

  • German Offensive

(1942)

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Turning of the Tide

  • Battle of Midway

(1942)

  • Battle of

Stalingrad (1942)

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Pacific Theater

  • Island Hopping
  • Battles of Iwo Jima

and Okinawa (1945)

  • Bombing Campaign
  • “Operation

Downfall”

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12.2 Postwar Europe

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War Conferences

  • Atlantic Charter

(1941)

  • Yalta Conference

(1945)

  • Potsdam Conference

(1945)

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Toward the Cold War

  • Division of Germany
  • Marshall Plan/Truman

Doctrine

– “Containment”

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Toward the Cold War

  • Division of Germany
  • Marshall Plan/Truman

Doctrine

  • Blockade of Berlin/

Berlin Airlift (1948)

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Toward the Brink

  • De-Stalinization
  • John F. Kennedy vs.

Nikita Khrushchev

  • Berlin Wall (1961)
  • Cuban Missile Crisis
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12.3 Science, Philosophy, the Arts and Religion

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Science

  • Atomic Energy
  • Three Mile Island/

Chernobyl

  • OPEC Oil Crisis
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Arts

  • Theater of the Absurd

– Waiting for Godot

  • “Youth Culture”
  • “Youth Revolt” - 1968
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Religion

  • Second Vatican Council
  • Birth Control
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12.4 Social and Political Developments

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Social Developments

  • Birth Control
  • “Youth Revolt”
  • Green Parties
  • Nuclear

Disarmament

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Political Developments

  • Decolonization
  • Hungarian Uprising

(1956)

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Political Developments

  • Prague Spring (1968)
  • Détente (1970-1980)
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Détente – European Style

  • Willy Brandt and the

SPD

  • Ostpolitik
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Return to the Cold?

  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Arms Race/SDI
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Collapse of the Iron Curtain

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall
  • Fall of the Soviet

Union

– Boris Yeltsin

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