Mar 10 Mar 22 Mar 23 Mar 24 Mar 26 Mar 29 Mar 30 Mar 31 Apr 2 Apr 5 Apr 7 Apr 9 Apr 12 Apr 14 Apr 16 Apr 19 Apr 21 Apr 23 . PART III. THE QUEST FOR SECURITY W Mar 10 lecture: World War I Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Gas warfare - Observe both the images and text. Why were the great powers all quick to join the age of chemical warfare? Why did they put gas into use (and when)? Trenches - Note the extent and types of trenches at Messines in 1917. Women and War Battle of the Somme - What and why? (See also Photo and Long, Battle of Somme segments.) casualty figures - Note the impact of losses on the various countries. Looking at the percentages, which great powers were the most affected by World War I? Maps - Use maps 5-14 to chart er the course of World War I. F-F Mar 12-19 Spring Break M Mar 22 lecture: Russia from Revolution to Stalin Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Lenin on the new state Table on growth of collective farms - Note the pattern of growth between 1929 and 1940. Hymn to Stalin - What does this signify? True believers - Chernitzky True believers - Fedorova Stalin's Purges - Characterize the tone of the official interpretation, the explanation and why the purges were justified. Revelations from the Russian Archives - Click on Anti-religious campaigns, Attacks on intelligentsia, Ukrainian famine and Deportations. This source reveals the inside of totalitarianism in practice. The Soviet regime felt threatened most by the intelligentsia, religious groups and non-Russian nationalities. In each case what did the state do? T Mar 23 e-lecture: Versailles: The Tragedy of Triumph Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Treaty of Versailles - Browse the Treaty articles and maps to gain a perspective of this key moment in diplomatic history. Shotwell, At the Paris Peace Conference - See Appendix VI for chronology and Appendix IV for difficulties in creating the treaty. W Mar 24 discussion: Russian Revolution See Coursebook Map of Petrograd F Mar 26 lecture: Age of Anxiety Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring Freud and psychology - Click on the three exhibition sections to examine Freud's life, his key ideas and their effect on the twentieth century. Freud's Interpretation of Dreams - How does Freud interpret dreams? Humanist Manifesto -- What did secular humanists believe? Freud, Civilization - What was secular humanism? General Strike - What were the causes and consequences of the General Strike of 1926? Map of Europe in 1937 M Mar 29 lecture: Nazi Germany Before Class Assignment In Class Guide German elections, 1919-33 - When was the turning point in support for the National Socialists? When did they become the largest party in the Reichstag? When did they become the majority? Oath to Hitler- What was the point of "the greatest common taking an oath in history"? Nazi racial policy - What principles were articulated soon after the Nazis had come to power? On what basis was the argument made? Nazi posters - Note content, message, what got emphasized, themes, and visual impact. Who do you think they were they aimed at? Were there any changes from before 1933 to after, when the Nazis came to power? German arms and industry - How might these images have engendered a sense of inferiority among Germans in 1935? goals of Nazi education - How did the Nazis want Germans, especially women, to view education? The Fuhrer Principle T Mar 30 e-lectures: Italian Fascism The Great Depression Italian Fascism Assignment Italian Fascism Guide Great Depression Assignment Great Depression Guide Mussolini, What is Fascism - How did Mussolini define fascism in opposition to socialism, liberalism and democracy? Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace - Why did Keynes believe the Treaty of Versailles would have a negative impact? Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management - Taylor is considered the founder of modern business management. What principles did he argue were critical to efficiency and rational management. view Triumph of the Will W Mar 31 discussion: Totalitarianism and Film See Coursebook Leni Riefenstahl F Apr 2 lecture: Meanings of World War II Before Class Assignment In Class Guide League of Nations - What was the League set up to do? Chamberlain, "Peace in Our Time" Munich Pact - Based upon the treaty, what was the spirit of Munich? How did Chamberlain's "Peace in our Time" speech reflect this spirit? Atlantic Charter - What were the "common principles" which framed the US/UK alliance? War music - What themes emerge? Nagasaki - Click on Photographs, and go through these, noting the impact the images had on you. Blitzkrieg - How did Blitzkrieg work? Third Paper Due M Apr 5 lecture: Rebuilding Europe, I: The West since 1945 Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Labour Party post-war policy - How did the Labour Party's victory in 1945 shape post-war Britain into a social democracy? Churchill, United States of Europe - What is Churchill advocating, and why? Where does he think the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union will stand in relationship to his projected United States of Europe? Treaty of Rome - Read the first three pages to see the intentions of the founders of the European Economic Community. Is this what Churchill had in mind a decade earlier? Contemporary Europe W Apr 7 discussion: Holocaust See Coursebook timeline, 1933-45 boycott of Jewish shops, 1933 Reich Citizenship Law, 1935 Nuremberg Law, 1935 Wannsee conference, 1942 executions, 1942 documents on mobile killing units the camps Holocaust pictures F Apr 9 Good Friday M Apr 12 lecture: Rebuilding Europe, II: The East, 1945-89 Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Krushchev's Secret Speech - How does Krushchev characterize Stalin's behavior? How does he distinguish this from Lenin's? COMINFORM condemnation of Communist Party of Yugoslavia, 1948 - What was the (essentially Soviet) criticism of developments in Yugoslavia? What did COMINFORM propose? Uprising in East Germany, 1953 What was significance of the uprising? Hungarian revolution, 1956 - Characterize the revolutionaries' demands. Were they political, economic or nationalist? Hungary, 1956 - What was the response of the Soviet Union to events in Hungary? How did Imry Nage, the reform-minded prime minister, characterize the Soviet response? Brezhnev Doctrine - What was the Soviet response to the Prague Spring? Characterize Brezhnev's argument. W Apr 14 discussion: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich See Coursebook Solzhenitsyn on the Gulag Solzhenitsyn autobiography GULAG F Apr 16 lecture: End of Empires Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Gandhi on Indian Home Rule - What does Gandhi say about the British in India? Orwell, Shooting an Elephant - How did Orwell's experience in Burma reflect the increasing problems facing European empires in 20th century? Statute of Westminster French empire, 1956 Statute of Westminster and Loi-Cadre: What did these documents intend to create? What assumptions were present in the documents? map of decolonization Christianity's New Center - How did the end of European empires result in a new Christendom? M Apr 19 lecture: Rise and Fall of the Cold War Before Class Assignment In Class Guide Cold War outline, 1945-91 - Browse the sections to gain an overview of developments. Yalta Conference, 1945 - Note determinations regarding the United Nations, democracy in post-war Europe, dismemberment and occupation of Germany, reparations, trials of war criminals, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Russian entry into war on Japan. Churchill, "Iron Curtain Speech," 1946 - What was Churchill trying to accomplish? (You might listen to the audio version.) Truman Doctrine, 1947 - What situations did Truman identify in Greece and Turkey? Why did he advocate American intervention? What were the "broad implications" of American involvement in that part of the world? Marshall Plan, 1947 - What did Marshall propose? NATO treaty, 1949 - What was it designed to accomplish? U-2 incident, 1960 - What happened? Why was this event significant? Berlin Wall, 1961 - American versus Soviet perspectives (see also Kennedy speech and history of Berlin wall). Kennedy speech at Berlin Wall, 1963 history of Berlin Wall Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: Introduction - What happened? Why was this event significant? Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 Chronology Helsinki Accords, 1975 - What were they designed to accomplish? Perestroika - What was the purpose of perestroika? Characterize the reaction to it from Communist Party hardliners. Remembering the Fall of the Wall Fall of the Wall - a Visual History Reflections of a Factory Worker Revolution in Eastern Europe Causes of the Revolutions of 1989 Revolution in Europe and Causes of the Revolutions of 1989: What happened in 1989? Do the two authors agree on significance? W Apr 21 discussion: The Cold War See Coursebook F Apr 23 Review T Apr 27 THIRD EXAM (10:30 a.m.)

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