This is a 4-week course that meets once a week for 1 hour. We will examine the history of World War 2, starting with the rise of fascism to the Security Treaty between Japan and the United States. The class is a lecture-and discussion-based course. Participation is encouraged but not required. I enjoy telling stories from the perspective of the people who lived through and experienced the events discussed, so much of the class will focus on historical narratives, technology, pictures, and videos of events being studied. 

The course will provide multiple perspectives. No prior knowledge is required. 

Week 1:
The rise of fascism 
Imperial Japan 
Anti-Comintern Pact
Japan invades China 
Hitler annexes Austria into Germany

Week 2: 
Germany invades Poland
France and Britain declare war
Invasion of Denmark and Norway
Blitzkrieg
Battle of Britain
Tripartite Pact creating the Axis Alliance

Week 3:
Germany and the Axis Powers attack Russia 
Pearl Harbor 
US enters World War II 
Battle of Midway
Allies invade Sicily
Italy surrenders 

Week 4:
Holocust
Mussolini escapes 
D-day and the Normandy invasion
Invasion of France 
Paris liberated 
Battle of the Bulge
US Marines invade Iwo Jima
President Franklin Roosevelt dies/President Truman
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
End of the War