HIEU 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Carpet Bombing, Europe 1, Total War
22 May 2018
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Monday, March 26, 2018
HIEU 242 Lecture 19
World War II Part 1: Age of the World Wars
-a truly global war
•redefines total war
•Blitzkrieg- lightning warfare
-Nazi’s fighting tactic
-increases speed of war
•aircraft, tanks
•aerial bombing
-carpet bombing
-civilian targets more common
•targeting civilians- loss of front line
-particularly on Eastern front
•WWI
-military deaths: 95% of all war casualties
-civilian deaths: 5% of all war casualties
•WWII
-military deaths: 33% of all war casualties
-civilian deaths: 67% of all war casualties
•Massacre of Nanking (1937)
-massacre of 40k-300k Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers
-when does WWII start
•1939
-Germany invades Poland (Sept 1)
-definitive date of when it starts in Europe
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Document Summary
World war ii part 1: age of the world wars. A truly global war: rede nes total war, blitzkrieg- lightning warfare. Increases speed of war: aircraft, tanks, aerial bombing. Civilian targets more common: targeting civilians- loss of front line. Military deaths: 95% of all war casualties. Civilian deaths: 5% of all war casualties: wwii. Military deaths: 33% of all war casualties. Civilian deaths: 67% of all war casualties: massacre of nanking (1937) Massacre of 40k-300k chinese civilians by japanese soldiers. De nitive date of when it starts in europe. Japan invades manchuria: age of warfare . Wwii in europe: begins with adolf hitler, spends 1933-1939 rearming germany, violates almost all of versailles treaty. Allied powers refuse to start another war. France and britain declare war on germany: german warfare: blitzkrieg. Combined arms attack: air power, tanks, troops moved by trucks. Lightning war- speed is unprecedented and terrifying. Demoralizes their opponents: early axis victories.
