Dr. Kurt Hackemer

Animated Cartoon List for History of World War II

Each class period of HIST 470: History of World War II begins with an animated short cartoon that is related in some way to that day's lecture topic. They are products of their time, and some may find individual cartoons to be offensive, but they offer a different (and useful) way of understanding the war.

• Introduction to HIST 470: Seven Wise Dwarfs; Coming!
• Drift to War, Part I: The Ducktators
• Drift to War, Part II: Education for Death
• Interwar Seapower: Seaman TARFU in the Navy
• Interwar Airpower: Sky Trooper
• Origins of Blitzkrieg: Snafuperman
• Blitzkrieg Against Poland & France: Blitz Wolf
• Battle of Britain: Chicken Little
• Holocaust: Coal Black and the Sebben Dwarfs
• US Moves Towards War: Fifth Column Mouse
• Pre-WWII US Grand Strategy: Scrap Happy Daffy
• Sept. 1940 – Dec 1941: Europe and Pacific: You’re a Sap, Mr. Jap
• Allied Strategy Circa 1942: Hot Spot
• War in the Pacific, 1942: Commando Duck
• Battle of the Atlantic: Spies
• Eastern Front 1942-43: Russian Rhapsody
• Allied Strategy: Torch – D-Day: Booby Traps or Rumors
• German War Mobilization: Der Fuehrer's Face
• Home Front: Weakly Reporter
• Allied Bombing Offensive: Tokio Jokio
• Command Technology: The Vanishing Private
• Women at War: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Firing Line
• Victory in Europe: D-Day to VE Day: Daffy the Commando
• Pacific War: Midway to VJ Day: Scrap the Japs
• Pacific War: Getting to VJ Day and the War’s Aftermath: Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips

Fall 2020 Documentaries viewed

• Sample of German propaganda films, including sections of Triumph of the Will, prepared for the Nuremberg Trials (30:02)
• "Defenders of Moscow 1941" Russian propaganda film, prepared for American audience (17:07)
• American Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden, 1939 (7:05)
• FDR Declares War on Japan
• Memphis Belle (42.53)

Other Documentaries

• Triumph of the Will (full version - identify specific subsets to watch)
• The Fighting Lady (1:01:35)
• Battle of San Pietro (32:34)
• The Battle of Midway, 1942 (18:19)
• With the Marines at Tarawa (19:13)
• To the Shores of Iwo Jima (19:17)
• Battle for Berlin (5:43)

Newsreels
U.S. Marines Battle Japanese in Pacific! (9:17)
U.S. Marines on Guadalcanal Push Back Japanese Troops (8:28)
Japanese Routed from Buna Stronghold (1943) (9:37)

Music

• The Murphy Sisters, "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap."

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