ARTS1271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nanking Massacre, Axis Powers, Studs Terkel

• School: UNSW, UNSW Sydney
• Department: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Humanities
• Course: ARTS1271
• Professor: Anne O'Brien

Document Summary

World war ii in a global context: decolonisation, cold war, united nations, welfare states, progressive social change. Politics of naming: china (cid:858)the war of esista(cid:374)(cid:272)e agai(cid:374)st japa(cid:374)(cid:859), (cid:1005)9(cid:1007)7-1945. Main fronts/ campaigns in european war: western front, blitzkrieg (1940 ) German in france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, norway, denmark. Battle of britain (cid:858)our fi(cid:374)est hour(cid:859) Beware of political purposes of such phrases: eastern front, operation barbarossa (june 1941 may 1945) Cost: 9 million soviet soldiers, 20 million soviet civilians. Positioned red army in eastern europe: mediterranean and middle east. Fighting spread to north africa, the balkans, east africa, iraq, gibraltar, malta, Global war: more acceptance this is global, more than wwi, geographical reach, consequences were widely global, establishment of un, redrawing of political maps (colonies, division of world into two ideologically opposed blocs (cold war) Magnitude, barbarism, total commitment: mass war total war. Women in new roles, situations of armed combat (esp. Deaths (cid:858)literall(cid:455) i(cid:374)(cid:272)al(cid:272)ula(cid:271)le(cid:859) (cid:894)(cid:1007)(cid:454) wwi(cid:895) hobspawm.