[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
To add this class to or drop it from your schedule notify Admissions and Records (Attn: Homer_J_Simpson) by freepmail. Those on the Realtime +/- 70 Years ping list are automatically enrolled. Course description, prerequisites and tuition information is available at the bottom of Homer’s profile. Also visit our general discussion thread

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Selections from West Point Atlas for the Second World War
Southeast Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941
Malaya, 1941: Topography-Japanese Centrifugal Offensive, December 1941-January 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – Operations of the Japanese First Air Fleet, 7 December 1941-12 March 1942
The Far East and the Pacific, 1941 – American Carrier Operations, 7 December 1941-18 April 1942
Micronesia, Melanesia and New Guinea: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive-Japanese Fourth Fleet and South Seas Detachment Operations, December 1941-April 1942
Luzon, P.I., 1941: Centrifugal Offensive, 10 December 1941-6 May 1942-Fourteenth Army Operations on Luzon
Southern Asia, 1941: Japanese Centrifugal Offensive (and Continued Operations), January-May 1942
North Africa, Auchinleck’s Offensive, 18 November-31 December 1941
Eastern Europe, 1941: Soviet Winter Offensive – Operations, 6 December 1941-7 May 1942
The Mediterranean Basin

[Locomotive Breath]

Some of those cartoons are raaaaacist.

[CougarGA7]

I know we’ve seen and heard “second World War” several times now, but I believe this is the first time I’ve seen “World War II”.

[untenured]

Re: the article about reprisal executions in France, there is a small item therein about seizure of Jewish property. I am currently reading Hitler's Beneficiaries: Plunder, Racial War, and the Nazi Welfare State, which argues that a main reason for the high level of German support at home for the Nazis was all the benefits provided by the state, and that a main source of these benefits was wealth, including gold, seized from Nazi-occupied territory. The main domestic beneficiaries of Nazism, according to the author, were not the 1% (in today's parlance), who faced quite high taxation, but the working and middle classes.

[Fiji Hill]

On the quiz, I missed three questions, so I get a “B.”