Week 8 October 15-19 : The road to war in Europe and Asia

For the Motherland! For Honor! For Freedom! (1941)

Tuesday: The road to war in Europe

• The Munich Pact, 29 Sep. 1938
• Nazi - Soviet Relations, 1939-1941
• Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Aug 29, 1939
• Neville Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time, 1938
• The Atlantic Charter, 1941 
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945): America, the Arsenal of Democracy 

Thursday: The road to war in Asia

PAPER: preliminary bibliography due. You should submit a preliminary bibliography with at least 15 articles from 5 or more sources. See research paper link for details.

• Mao Zedong (1893-1976): On Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism December 27, 1935
• The Nanking Massacre, The New York Times, December 18, 1937
• Pearl Harbour Attack Documents, 1941
• US Declaration of War on Japan Dec. 8, 1941 
• Japanese Surrender Documents of World War II Sept. 12, 1945

Readings:

Turbulent Passage, Chapter 8

Sources of Twentieth Century Global History, 235-266

More Resources:

Culture, Power, and Mission to Moscow - Film and Soviet-American Relations during World War II

World War II Propaganda, Cartoons, Film, Music, & Art: A vast collection of resources that illustrate the variety and extent of US and non-government propaganda during WWII

BBC on WWII - An extensive multimedia site with an especially good section on the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the war on the Eastern Front

US Holocaust Memorial Museum