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Historians have argued that World Wars I and II are actually the same conflict, with a twenty-year pause in between. We will analyze how nationalism, technology, male identity, honor and pride combined to produce the worst warfare humanity has ever experienced. Focus will be on how marginalized groups, such as Jews, women, and homosexuals, maintained their identity in the face of extermination during the Holocaust. Students will explore the role of totalitarian regimes and practices in the war, both Allied and Axis. How did Germany transform from a colonial power to occupy most of Europe? How did African Americans fight in World War I and World War II and how does Jim Crow relate to the Nuremberg Laws? Students will be expected to write a short staged skit based on research and participate in a public performance. Each class, students read and critique sophisticated academic texts. There will be a field trip on a weekend to the Museum of Jewish Heritage. This course focuses on Europe; Making of Modern Japan focuses on the Pacific.
Section 1
Section 1
Owen A.
Wilfred Owen
World War I Poet
Capes C.
Leo Major
World War II Canadian Soldier Who Liberated Zwolle, Netherlands in 1945
Owen F.
Winston Churchill
World War II United Kingdom Prime Minister
David G.
Charles de Gaulle
World War II French Prime Minister
Giacomo J.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
World War II American General
Miles J.
Joseph Stalin
World War II Soviet Prime Minister
Christina J.
Grace Banker
World War I Chief Operator of the U.S. Signal Corps' Women Telephone Operators
Jake J.
Winston Churchill
World Wars United Kingdom Prime Minister; Bengal Famine
Joseph M.
Erwin Rommel
World War II German Field Marshall
Bo N.
Vladimir Lenin
World War I USSR Prime Minister
Lucas R.
Neville Chamberlain
World War II United Kingdom Prime Minister
Maggie S.
Winston Churchill
World Wars United Kingdom Prime Minister
Vivienne S.
Franz Ferdinand
World War I Archduke of Austria-Hungary
Aidan W.
Gavrilo Princip World War I
Assassin of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Hungary
Sasha Z.
Robert Oppenheimer
World War II Los Alamos Director Atomic Scientist
Section 2
Section 2
Gabby B.
Franz Ferdinand
World War I Archduke of Austria-Hungary
Jasper D.
Erich Ludendorff
World War I German Field Marshall
Oliver D.
Heinrich Himmler
World War II Chief of the SS
Leo F.
Leni Riefenstahl
World War II German Film Director
Fletch K.
Anthony Haden Guest
Holocaust Survivor
Apollo K.
Vladimir Lenin
World War I USSR Prime Minister
Luke N.
Franz Ferdinand
World War I Archduke of Austria-Hungary
Sally P.
The Big Three
Yalta Conference
Milo P.
Richard Kuhn
World War II Supplied Drugs to Nazis
Maya S.
Alan Turing
World War II British Scientist Who Cracked Nazi Codes
Mbene T.
Edith Corse Evans
Titanic Hero & Victim
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