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Chapter Thirty-Seven:
New Conflagrations: World War II
Chapter Thirty-Seven:
New Conflagrations: World War II
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Origins of World War II
• Japan’s War in China
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The Rape of Nanjing
Chinese Resistance
• European Aggression
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Italy – “adventures” in Africa
Germany – Rearmament and the Spanish Civil War
Appeasement and “Peace for our time”
The German-Soviet non-agression pact
Chapter Thirty-Seven:
New Conflagrations: World War II
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Total War: The World Under Fire
• Blitzkrieg: Germany Conquers Europe
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The invasion of Poland
The Fall of France
The Battle of Britain
• The German Invasion of the Soviet
Union
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Operation Barbarossa
The Siege of Stalingrad
High tide of Axis
expansion in Europe and
north Africa, 1942-1943
Chapter Thirty-Seven:
New Conflagrations: World War II
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Total War: The World Under Fire
• Battles in Asia and the Pacific
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Pearl Harbor
Japanese Victories
The Battle of Midway
• Defeat of the Axis Powers
Allied Victory in Europe
 Turning the Tide in
the Pacific
 Iwo Jima and Okinawa
 Atomic Bombs and
Japanese Surrender
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World War II in Asia
and the Pacific
Chapter Thirty-Seven:
New Conflagrations: World War II
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Life During Wartime
• Occupation, Collaboration, and Resistance
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Exploitation
Collaboration
Resistance
Atrocities
• The Holocaust
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The Final Solution
Jewish Resistance
The Holocaust
in Europe,
1933-1945
Chapter Thirty-Seven:
New Conflagrations: World War II
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Life During Wartime
• Woman and the War
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Women’s Roles
Comfort Women
Chapter Thirty-Seven:
New Conflagrations: World War II
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Neither Peace nor War
• Postwar Settlements and Cold War
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The Origins of the Cold War
Yalta and Potsdam
Postwar Territorial Divisions
The Truman Doctrine
• Global Reconstruction and the United Nations
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The Marshall Plan
NATO and the
Warsaw Pact
The United Nations