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HIST-H 219: ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (3 credits)

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Nazi and fascist aggression, collective security, appeasement, and outbreak of war in Europe, German blitzkrieg, Russian front, North Africa, Italian, and Normandy campaigns, Hitler's racial policies. Japanese-American hostility, Pearl Harbor, island-hopping, and the atomic bomb. Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill at Teheran, Yalta, and Potsdam. War crimes trials.