1945
Byron Boyd | 1:00-2:00 pm | Mondays | October 6 through November 10
Series Price: $50 for members/$100 for visitors
Individual Lectures: $10/$20 in advance
At the Door: $20 per lecture

January and February
1:00-2:00 pm | Monday, October 6
World War II lumbers on, punctuated by the Yalta Conference, the Dresden bombing, and the Battle of Iwo Jima.

March
1:00-2:00 pm | Monday, October 13
Bombings in Japan and the capture of Manilla change the course of the War in the Pacific, just as Western allies and Russia invade Nazi Germany.

April
1:00-2:00 pm | Monday, October 20
The Battle of Okinawa begins, the liberation of Nazi death camps, and the defeat of Germany occur in the same month as the deaths of FDR, Mussolini, and Hitler.

May to July
1:00-2:00 pm | Monday, October 27
The free world embraces the United Nations, the Battle of Okinawa comes to an end, and the Potsdam Conference convenes.

August
1:00-2:00 pm | Monday, November 3
Unprecedented atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, along with a Russian attack on Japan, lead to an end to the War in the Pacific.

September to December
1:00-2:00 pm | Monday, November 10
The Nuremburg Trials expose Nazi atrocities, and the world steps into a new world order.

Byron Boyd holds a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He taught Advanced Placement courses in American and European history for several decades at Savannah Country Day School, and lectured at Georgia Southern and Armstrong State Universities.  In retirement, he teaches regularly at The Learning Center.