HIST337

School of Liberal Arts

This course explores World War II in the Pacific theater and its legacies, covering the late nineteenth century into the 1960s. We will investigate how Japan became an imperial power capable of waging a world war, how people lived under and within the Japanese empire, and how the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki affected Asia during the aftermath of the war and the Cold War that followed.

Pass/Fail (P), Standard (S)

Diverse Perspectives (SEDP), Humanities (GEHU)