World War II: A Military and Social History

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Thomas Childers

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1. The Origins of the Second World War.mp4

31:07

2. Hitlers Challenge to the International System, 1933-1936.mp4

30:25

3. The Failure of the International System.mp4

32:04

4. The Coming of War.mp4

32:02

5. Blitzkrieg.avi

30:52

6. The German Offensive in the West.avi

32:42

7. Their Finest Hour -Britain Alone.avi

30:18

8. The Battle of Britain.avi

29:46

9. Hitler Moves East.avi

30:09

10. The Germans Before Moscow.avi

30:37

11. The War in Asia.avi

30:37

12. The Japanese Gamble.avi

31:04

13. The Height of Japanese Power.avi

31:08

14. Turning the Tide in the Pacific-Midway and Guadalcanal.avi

29:31

15. The War in North Africa.avi

31:45

16. War in the Mediterranean-The Invasions of Sicily and Italy.avi

29:32

17. Stalingrad-The Turning Point on the Eastern Front.avi

28:56

18. Eisenhower and Operation Overlord.avi

28:49

19. D-Day to Paris.avi

29:05

20. Operation Market Garden and the Battle of the Bulge.avi

28:29

21. Advance Across the Pacific.avi

27:11

22. Turning Point in the Southwest Pacific-Leyte Gulf and the Philippines.avi

25:34

23. The Final Drive for Japan-Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Fire-Bombing of Tokyo.avi

31:52

24. War in the Air.avi

33:54

25. Hitlers New Order in Europe.avi

35:54

26. The Mans Army .avi

30:28

27. Daily Life, Culture, and Society in Wartime.avi

31:55

28. The Race for Berlin.avi

31:04

29. Truman, the Bomb, and the End of the War in the Pacific.avi

27:57

30. The Costs of War.avi

25:07

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Fifty-five million people died in the Second World War, the greatest conflict in human history.

Fifty years later, these lectures ask and answer important questions about this war:

Might Hitler have been stopped sooner?
Should Roosevelt have foreseen Pearl Harbor?
Could more lives have been saved as the Holocaust became known?
Did Truman have to use the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Did the Allies come closer to losing World War II than we would like to think?

The origins and expansion of the war in Europe and the Pacific are examined. Military and political strategies and failures are analyzed. Social and economic effects of the war are assessed.

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Dr. Thomas Childers is Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been teaching for over 25 years. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Tennessee and his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University.

Professor Childers has held visiting professorships at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, Smith College, and Swarthmore College. He is a popular lecturer abroad as well, in London, Oxford, Berlin, and Munich.

Professor Childers has won several teaching awards, including the Ira T. Abrahms Award for Distinguished Teaching and Challenging Teaching in the Arts and Sciences, the Richard S. Dunn Award for Distinguished Teaching in History, and the Senior Class Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Professor Childers is the author and editor of several books on modern German history and the Second World War. He is currently completing a trilogy on the Second World War. The first volume, Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II, was praised by Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post as “a powerful and unselfconsciously beautiful book.”

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