AP/HIST 3844 3.00: Liberation, Violence, and Reconstruction: A History of the Second World War and its Aftermath, 1944-1949

AP/HIST 3844 3.00

Liberation, Violence, and Reconstruction: A History of the Second World War and its Aftermath, 1944-1949

This course provides a global history of the Second World War from 1944 and its aftermath. The course begins in June 1944 with D-Day and ends in 1949 with the Communist Party’s military victory in China. It examines how liberation resulted in violence, war crimes trials, and reconstruction of those communities the war had affected.