HIS1111- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 71 pages long!)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1111
• Professor: Thomas Boogaart

Document Summary

Ww2 exclamation point to a terrible era, great depression etc. , everyone ready for a better brighter future, allowed unlikely allies to see eye to see for a short period of time. Ww2 was a truly global war because destruction was felt all over the world as opposed to just in. Axis powers wanted war because of the unfair treaty of vesailles, imperial war to establish a new order, create the framework for a unified aaryan europe, japan and italy had much the same goals. Because of this desire for annihilation civilians bore the brunt of the war, allies responded to these horrors by cluster bombing enemy populations to weaken morale, stalin killing poles in katyn for example. Atlantic charters depicts war as good vs evil, clash of civilizations, democracy vs fascism to determine the future of the world, human rights.