World War II Leadership

Lectures in History

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🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Victor Hanson, a professor emeritus of Classics at California State University, Fresno, lectured to a history class on masters and commanders during World War II. In this fall seminar in classical and military history Professor Hanson examined how leaders, both civilian officials and generals on the battlefield, conducted themselves in wartime. That day’s class focused on Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill and how those very different American and British leaders learned to work together to defeat Nazi Germany. This episode was recorded in 2010. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.2	This week, a class on World War II leadership taught by California State University Professor Victor Hanson.
1:06.2	This episode is from 2010.
1:09.1	Okay, we're going to continue with this notion of masters and commanders,
1:16.6	starting in antiquity with the Pamanondas, Caesar, Alexander,
1:21.6	Pericles, and going into the Civil War, and then now we're at World War II.
1:26.6	And before we start with the Allied commanders, masters, I should say, Churchill and Roosevelt,
1:35.3	last week we went over the four in total, although we didn't talk about Mussolene,
1:40.3	just Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, and Roosevelt.
1:42.3	I thought we could have a review of what the situation is at the beginning of World War II,
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