World War 2

World War II: The Extremes of Global Total War

Numbers
60 million global dead

Extent
theaters of war: CBI (CHINA/BURMA/INDIA)
population movements
“COMFORT WOMEN”

Violence
innovations: RADAR, decryption (ALAN TURING)
HIROSHIMA: MANHATTAN PROJECT
BLITZ and DRESDEN: fire bombing

Geopolitical Impacts
China: MAO
MARSHALL PLAN
United Nations
NATO

Culture
Adorno: “no poetry after Auschwitz”