World War II was the most destructive conflict in the history of the world, affecting nearly everyone who was alive at the time, as well as the generations that followed. This seminar will examine the causes, course, and consequences of the war, both in the European and Asian/Pacific theaters as well as on the American homefront. While it will emphasize the role that the United States played in the conflict, it will not ignore those aspects of the war in which Americans were not directly involved, such as the early war years (1939-41), and the genocidal conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union.
Instructors: David Krugler is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. He is the author of This is Only a Test: How Washington, D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War; The Voice of America and the Domestic Propaganda Battle, 1945-1953; and the forthcoming The Long 1919: African Americans' Fight Against Mob Violence after World War I. John Moser is Associate Professor of History at Ashland University. He is the author of Twisting the Lion's Tail: American Anglophobia between the World Wars and Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism.