WORLD
WAR II (AND THE UNITED STATES)
WOH
4244 * COURSE SCHEDULE
MWF, 11:00-11:50, SO 170
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WEEK 1: Origins of WWII
(David Kennedy, Freedom From Fear, 381-454) |
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F 8/24: Introduction M 8/27: The War that Didn’t End All Wars W 8/29: The Legacy of the Great War F 8/31: Depression, Dictatorship, and War |
WEEK 2:
Neutrality According to FDR (Kennedy,
460-515)
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M 9/3: NO CLASS: LABOR DAY W 9/5: Perils of Neutrality F 9/7: The Clash: The United States and Japan to
1940 |
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WEEK 3: The Pacific War (Kennedy, 515-564) |
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M 9/10: Pearl Harbor According to Everybody but
Ben Affleck W 9/12: Island Hopping
F 9/14: Fighting on Two Oceans |
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WEEK 4: Was WWII a “Race War”? (John
Dower, War Without Mercy, 1-146) |
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M 9/17: Know Your Enemy—Japan W 9/19: Know Your Enemy—Japan F 9/21: Discussion of War Without Mercy |
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WEEKS 5 & 6: Dimensions
of a Total War (Kennedy, 565-609,
615-619, 669-745) |
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M 9/24: What is “total war”?
W 9/26:
Air War
F 9/28: War of the Airwaves |
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M 10/1: Who, exactly, was
G.I. Joe? W 10/3: From D-Day to V-E Day F 10/5:
EXAM I
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WEEKS 7-8: The Home Front (Kennedy, 746-783; Allan Winkler, Home Front
U.S.A., 1-4, 28-85) |
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M 10/8: Virtue Under Fire: WWII and American Sexuality W 10/10: Rosie the Riveter’s America I F 10/12: Rosie the Riveter’s America II |
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M 10/15: Wartime Labor W 10/17: “Double V”: African Americans and the War F 10/19: “Relocation,” “Interment,” or
“Concentration Camp”? |
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WEEK 9: The United States and the Holocaust
(Robert Abzug, America Views the Holocaust, 1-4, 70-84, 99-213) |
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M 10/22: Kristallnacht to Auschwitz W 10/24:
Imagining the Unimaginable
F 10/26: Discussion of The United States and the
Holocaust |
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WEEKS 10-12: Wartime
Culture (Clayton Koppes & Gregory Black, Hollywood
Goes to War, entire) |
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M 10/29: “Praise the Lord and
Pass the Ammunition” W 10/31: Propaganda and Censorship F 11/2: Dr. Seuss and Donald Duck Go to War |
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M 11/5: Purple Heart W 11/7: Purple Heart Th 11/9: Casablanca: Special Meeting Time,
Thursday, HU 189, 6 p.m. |
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M 11/12: NO CLASS: VETERAN’S DAYW 11/14: Discussion of
Koppes. F 11/16:
Exam II
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WEEKS 13-14: The Bomb (Kennedy, 665-668, 838-851) |
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M 11/19: The Making of the
Atomic Bomb W 11/21: TBAF 11/23: NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING |
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WEEKS 14-15: At War’s End (Kennedy, 852-858; Dower, 293-317) |
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M 11/26: Hiroshima and
Nagasaki W 11/28:
The A-Bomb Decision: Problems and Controversies
F 11/29: The World the War Made (Papers Due) |
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M 12/3: WWII and the Origins of the Cold War W 12/5: The Good War? |
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WEEK 16: FINAL EXAM (W
12/12, 10:30-1:00) |
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