WORLD WAR II IN ASIA   [Archived Catalog]
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog
   

HIST 0487 - WORLD WAR II IN ASIA


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The history of the war, 1937-1945, between Japan on the one hand and China, the United States, the soviet union and great Britain on the other. The course stresses the ideological, economic, political, social, diplomatic and military forces in those five countries, and how these forces led to a disastrous war beginning in the late 1930s. The course concludes with a discussion of the allied occupation of Japan and Japan's postwar recovery.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Asian Studies, DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.


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