During World War II the British Royal Air Force undertook a campaign of area bombing of German cities, resulting in hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties. The debate over the ethics of this policy began at the time and has continued to the present. Area bombing clearly vi…
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On the surface, the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1), World War II (1939–45), and the Algerian War (1954–62) seem to have little in common. Ninety years and vast differences of scale, duration, and context separate the three. Moreover, in the first two wars, France fought against th…
In March 1942, Japan captured the Dutch East Indies and began a military occupation that lasted until August, 1945. More than in most military occupations, occupier and occupied had strong practical reasons for cooperation: Both shared a common Western enemy. Japan had an acute …
This dissertation examines the role of intelligence in the application of close air support by both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Force (USAAF) during the campaigns in the Western Desert and Tunisia during the Second World War. It was in this theatre that …
This study analyzes the development, extent, and importance of the Nazi-Soviet economic relationship from Hitler's ascension to power and particularly from the signing of the August 19, 1939, Commercial Agreement until the launching of Operation Barbarossa. The Fuhrer's rearmame…
Between 1895 and 1945 the Japanese Empire developed from an isolated developing monarchy to a major regional power. This turned the traditional regional power relationships on end. During this time European colonialism also matured in Asia, with Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Po…
Crossed Wires: Japanese American Incarceration and the Environmental Frontier focuses on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. From this historical vantage point, I draw on ecocritical and settler colonial frameworks to theorize the relationship between im…
This thesis will examine the lack of commemoration on the involvement of African American female soldiers during World War II. This thesis will also reveal the struggles, treatment, and triumphs that African American female WWII soldiers endured during the war. It is important t…
The United States requisitioned artists to assist with military objectives and servicemen requisitioned art as a form of rhetoric. This research reexamines the role of “official artists” and thereby extends its definition to include the multitude of art they produced during the …
D-Day is an event that has seated itself in collective memory, particularly America, as a seminal moment of the Second World War, and of the 20th century. Often the Allied landings in Upper Normandy are conceptualized as a watershed moment of the Second World War, signaling the …
This dissertation analyzes the participation of Senegalese men in the Second World War, their perceptions of France as the “motherland,” and of themselves as members of the French colonial army. The narrative framework for the work is the chronology of Senegalese participation i…
This study analyzes the role of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), the American Jewish Congress (AJCongress), and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) in the intergroup relations movement of the 1940s and 1950s. The intergroup relations movement was a collaborative…
Jacqueline Cochran was America's premier female aviator. This study concentrates on her rise as a pilot in the 1930s and her participation in World War II. The paper begins by examining Cochran's early life and showing how her hardships molded her personality. The author explain…
For three days in September 1940 a large British naval squadron bombarded the French colonial city of Dakar, Senegal, with little success. The attack was preceded by an attempted peaceful landing by negotiators under a flag of truce. The fighting included a beach landing, exchan…
The unprecedented waves of strikes which erupted in British Africa during the war era were dramatic proof that the shadow cast by the Second World War extended far beyond the actual theatres of combat and also demonstrated the state's limited capacity to engineer the colonial ec…
This dissertation examines the evolution, scope, and significance of the colonial discourse in the German-occupied Netherlands, as advanced by Dutch resisters writing in the country's extensive and influential clandestine press during the years of 1940-1945. In a testament to po…
French colonialism in North Africa dramatically impacted the conduct of American diplomatic and military policies between 1940 and 1943. Viewing French occupation of North Africa as lacking legitimacy, the U.S. perceived the Muslim population as an easy target for German propaga…
This dissertation presents the findings of a comparative oral history study of twenty-seven learner experiences of education in two complex emergencies—World War II and post-1979 Afghanistan. Built around an oral history methodology, the study contributes to the developing resea…
This dissertation examines the lives of Tunisian veterans who fought for the French during the First and Second World Wars. My thesis breaks new ground in that it attempts to place the story of Tunisian veterans in the wider global context of the World Wars and decolonization. E…