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World War II Studies Certificate
18 Semester Hours

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Not open to students who elect this as concentration in the MA in Military History 

Upon completion of this certificate students will be able to:

  • Discern and critique the strategies, tactics, leaders and lessons learned during the fighting in the China-Burma-India Theater, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Aleutians, and in the Philippines.
  • Explain and assess the strategy, tactics and leadership from the blitzkriegs into France, the Balkans, and the Soviet Union to the campaigns in North Africa and Italy.
  • Explain and assess the Allied victory in Europe to include the generalship and decisions concerning the amphibious invasions, airdrops, and the crossing of the Rhine.
  • Distinguish the politics, political leadership, and diplomacy in Germany, Japan, and Italy that enabled the rise of the respective countries’ Axis leadership that ruled during World War II.
  • Distinguish the political leadership that defined the Allied powers of the United States, Great Britain, and Russia before, during, and post-World War II.

  • LW550 / MILH552 - World War II in the Pacific
  • LW630 / MILH553 - Axis Powers: Politics, Political Leadership, & Diplomacy
  • LW631 / HIST560 - World War II in Context
  • LW632 / MILH554 - Allied Powers: Politics, Political Leadership, & Diplomacy
  • MH530 / MILH551 - World War II in Europe
  • LW545 / MILH510 - Studies in U.S. Military History


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