Course

The Second World War - ZHSS3211

Faculty: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences @ UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Course Outline: ZHSS3211 Course Outline

Campus: UNSW Canberra at ADFA

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: ZHSS1201 and ZHSS1202

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

This course will give the student an understanding of the greatest global conflict in history through the analysis of the military, social, political, economic, ideological and moral issues that shaped it. Students will study the strategic decisions, the major air, sea and land campaigns and the key turning points of the military struggle. The course also examines the impact of the war and mobilization on the home fronts, raising questions of leadership, morale and social change. Students will study life under foreign occupation and the difficulties this imposed on the defeated. The study of the Second World War raises many moral issues: amongst them, the barbarisation of warfare; the Final Solution; the choices of resistance and collaboration; the dropping of the first atomic bomb; and the trials and punishment at the end of the war. Students will examine different historical interpretations of these issues and engage in the arguments surrounding them.
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