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World War II Memory in Putin's Russia
… has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended over 77 years ago, … Dr. David Hoffmann On May 7, 2000, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as Russia's new president, he was 47 years … a pillar of Russian national identity and patriotism. So why is this? Why has the Putin government placed such …
Legacies of the Great War
… This month marks the 100-year anniversary of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial … of the war, U.S. events have been few and far between. Why is the war remembered so differently in Europe versus … US, we have something to compare it with, you know, so I wasn't around for the centennial of, you know, the Civil …
The Long Legacy of World War I
… across the globe have marked the centennial of the Great War (1914-1918) . That cataclysm brought to a crashing demise the world of the late 19 th century. By war’s end, the Russian, … Force landed in Europe early in the summer of 1917 but it wasn’t until late October that they saw sustained fighting …
Memories of the Great War
… of 2014 marked the 100 th anniversary of the beginning of World War I. In this month’s podcast, three Ohio State … the rest of the century. Also known as the Great War, this was the 20th century's first man made global upheaval … of Sarajevo as being a place of conflict. And so that's why so many of these main events will really seem to focus …
The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
… conflict through the lens of the horrors of the Second World War . He argued that the people of Eastern Ukraine’s … perpetrated bytheKiev regime.” His mission, he claimed, was “to demilitarize anddenazify Ukraine.” In Putin’s … and the present are unique. This article seeks to explain why the living ghosts of the Second World War haunt Russian …
Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust
… United Kingdom—and shows how they helped shape the postwar world by touching thousands of lives, including those of the … Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust. And my thinking was that today, I would first sort of introduce some general historical background, talk a little bit about why I became interested in this project in the first place, …
It’s Time for a National World War I Memorial
… and parades across the country, and many will be in Washington, D.C., to visit the national memorials dedicated to the wars in which they fought. But there is one glaring exception: the First World War. Despite nearing the centenary of the First …
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
… the guns of the Western Front and ending the First World War . Or so the story goes. In January 1918, after forty-one … had entered the conflict in April but the initial impact was negligible—the Army was comprised of just 120,000 men. …
Skis, Samba, and Smoking Snakes: An Unlikely World War II Partnership
What happened when glacier-goggled American ski troops and samba-loving Brazilian soldiers fought side-by-side halfway across the world?
… three years immersing its recruits in the art of mountain warfare before its opportunity came to fight during World War II . Their extreme stateside training was highly publicized . All around the country, civilians …
Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers
World War II in Eastern Europe: Many Lands, Many Memories
… the invasion. While Putin has justified his brutal war as “liberating” Ukraine from neo-Nazis, government … the USSR itself collapsed. Nevertheless, experiences of World War II as well as the memories of those who survived … them proponents of revisiting the postwar treaties. There was little trust between Hungarians and Slovaks or between …
The Nature of World War II
… Seventy-five years ago, in late summer 1943, famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle sat above a newly constructed … eleven months later, the Sicily campaign—Operation Husky—was the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving an … from American factories and of ships from American yards.” World War II was a war of thousands of guns, tanks, and …
The Nazis Take Poland and the Start of World War II
… where the SS men gunned them down. The assault on Danzig was the opening act of the full-scale invasion of Poland as … encampments and into combat. It was the beginning of a war over the future of Poland; it was the beginning of the Second World War , a struggle for the fate of the world. In 2014, …
From the Cold War to the War on Terror
… the War on Terrorism, the Vietnam War, and the Second World War, and is the author of Reagan's War on Terrorism in … think this is an important point on this War on Terror that was announced after 9/11 is still ongoing. And it's the … there was the initiation of an armed drone program in 1986. Why did that then take 15 more years to actually become a …
November 11, 1918: The End of World War I?
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the Armistice went into effect, silencing the guns of the Western Front and ending the First World War. Or so the story goes.
… When did the First World War end? November 11, 1918? June 28, 1919? Or was it later? Written by Julie M. Powell. Narration by Dr. …
The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War
… armed forces invaded South Korea and launched a brutal war on the Korean peninsula. The North Korean military … and neither side gained much territory. A peace treaty was never signed; the Korean War has never officially ended. … Koreas fought with the support and cooperation of outside world superpowers: China sent 3 million “volunteers” to …
A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History)
Review of A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (The New Cold War History) , by Vladislav Zubok (2007, University of North Carolina Press)
… bent on imperial and ideological expansion. According to Washington, it was a threatening state that needed to be … and the Soviet Union clashed in an era known as the Cold War. The East-West struggle shaped relations between states, … of 1917, represent the Leninist aspiration to spread world revolution. Zubok uses this dualistic framework to …
A Forgotten Theater of War
Review of India’s War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia, by Srinath Raghavan New York, NY: Basic Books, 2016
… the rise of modern India. Srinath Raghavan’s India’s War: World War II and the Making of Modern South Asia examines … his book as a way to better understand how India shaped and was shaped by the war, using military history, diplomacy, … Lastly, Raghavan ends the book on an intriguing question: why is World War II so dimly remembered in India? He makes a …
The American Civil War, Then and Now
Review of The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters, by James McPherson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
… Coming to terms with the American Civil War is no easy task. The scale of its destruction alone is … intervention and the question of whether the Civil War was a "just" war and a "total" war. Other chapters reflect … and future. … Review of The War that Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters , by James McPherson (New …
The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)
… 1980s. As we will see, the development of the US drug war was deeply informed by experiences abroad...and to understand why the War on Drugs drags on, we have to trace those … Mexico and Afghanistan, and takes surprising detours to World War Two-era Japan and colonial China. But first, we …
Top Ten Origins: World War II Films
… of Wolfgang Peterson’s Das Boot , films about the Second World War often include indelible scenes, moods, and sounds. As we … to be “the first film I really felt I had to make,” was one of two great war films he made in the 1950s (the …
Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)
… prohibition both at home and abroad. … Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3) … Episode 3: Devising … D would have started with the first Opium War, which was fought between China and England, from 1839 to 1842. … guilt, not innocence. And that person would have to explain why and how they came to have that drug. That's an …
“The Tragedy Has Never Left Us.” On the War in Ukraine
… siege, widespread destruction. The references to the Second World War abound, but they should not obscure the fact that … of humanitarian corridors that Russian troops wasted no time in bombing, the siege or occupation of cities … construct” (but aren’t all nations, in essence?), why would Ukrainians sacrifice so much to defend themselves …
