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Oct 31, 2024
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2023-2024 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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HIS 280 - History of the World Wars 3 Credits, 3 Contact Hours 3 lecture periods 0 lab periods
Survey of the two world wars of the twentieth century. Includes prelude to war, outbreak of the Great War, war of two fronts, inter-war years, World War II, and post war world. Also includes changes created in society, government, and international relations as a result of the two wars.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Describe the important developments of the late nineteenth century.
- State the reasons for the outbreak of the Great War.
- Examine the characteristics and battles of the two fronts.
- Analyze the culture of the inter-war years.
- Examine the facts of World War Two.
- Describe the development of the post war world.
Outline:
- Prelude to War
- Nationalism in practice and theory
- Creation of the Italian Nation
- Creation of the German Nation
- Nationalist political theorists
- European Imperialist Expansion
- Social Darwinism
- Industrialization
- Establishment of the European Alliance System
- Political tensions in the Balkans
- Outbreak of the Great War
- National preparedness and command for war
- Politics of war declarations
- Mobilization and new warfare technology
- Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
- War of Two Fronts
- Characteristics and battles of the Eastern Front
- Characteristics and battles of the Western Front
- National expectations and realities of the war
- Military leadership and strategy
- Casualty rates and medical treatment
- Home front and political leadership
- Role of women in war and at home
- Russian revolution
- End of the war
- Factors leading to German defeat
- Treaty of Versailles
- League of Nations
- Inter-War Years
- Post war culture
- Literature and art
- Women’s suffrage
- Political change in European governments
- Rise of Fascism and Totalitarianism
- Economic Depression
- Rearmament
- New political alliances
- Pact of Steel
- Non-Aggression Pact
- World War Two
- Policy of Appeasement
- Sudetenland
- Anschluss
- Wehrmacht and Blitzkrieg
- Japan and the Pacific Theatre
- Japanese imperialism
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- Operation Barbarossa
- Military strategies, technological developments, and atomic weaponry
- Home Front and civilian populations
- Changing gender roles
- Political and social efforts of desegregation
- European Theatre
- Operation Torch
- D-Day invasion
- Battle of the Bulge
- VE Day
- Pacific Theatre
- Battle of Midway
- Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- VJ Day
- Post War World
- Nuremberg Trials
- Marshall Plan
- Establishment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact
- Cold War
Effective Term: Spring 2017
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