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.

LW631 / HIS 560 - World War II in Context
MH530 / MLH 530 - World War II in Europe
LW550 / MLH 531 - World War II in the Pacific
LW630 / MLH 534 - Axis Powers: Politics, Political Leadership, & Diplomacy
LW632 / MLH 535 - Allied Powers: Politics, Political Leadership, & Diplomacy