AER 404 Lecture 7: HST 802-Syllabus-Section 1-2016
1 Mar 2016
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Winter 2016 - section 1 mondays 11-1; tuesdays 9-10. Office: jor 530 phone: (416) 979-5000 x 2132. The second world war was the most destructive, far-reaching and costly conflict in human history. As many as sixty million people died between 1939 and 1945, the majority of whom were civilians. This course therefore will explore the second world war as a total war a war that effected and transformed whole societies and threatened the very survival of entire populations. Necessarily, this course will focus on the home fronts as well as the fighting fronts and explore the terrible deprivations and violence experienced by both soldiers and civilians in all theatres of the war. Topics of particular interest will be the origins of the war and the role of. This course will seek to have students question established truths and deviate from a vision of warfare that highlights winners and losers.
