Warfare strategy and technology helped lead the US and its allies to a victory by 1945. How did the US help defeat the Nazis in Europe, and what was the role of the USSR? What of US strategy with the Japanese in the Pacific? How did the US develop atomic weapons and what role did they play at the end of the war and its aftermath? What moral dilemmas arose? For all the talk in past years about the use of weapons of mass destruction, the US is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons in particular. Was it "necessary" to drop "the Bomb" to end the war? How many other counties without nuclear technologies view this phenomenon? Finally, in what historical context was the United Nations formed, and what was its purpose? How do you see the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in historical context coming out of WWII

Warfare strategy and technology helped lead the US and its allies to a victory by 1945. How did the US help defeat the Nazis in Europe, and what was the role of the USSR? What of US strategy with the Japanese in the Pacific? How did the US develop atomic weapons and what role did they play at the end of the war and its aftermath? What moral dilemmas arose? For all the talk in past years about the use of weapons of mass destruction, the US is the only country that has ever used nuclear weapons in particular. Was it "necessary" to drop "the Bomb" to end the war? How many other counties without nuclear technologies view this phenomenon? Finally, in what historical context was the United Nations formed, and what was its purpose? How do you see the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in historical context coming out of WWII