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" Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Contrary to what you've just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and the Star Wars Trilogy. If you'd like to learn more about war, there's lots of books in your local library, many of them with cool, gory pictures.”- Bart Simpson
Major Assignments
Roots of WWII and World War II
Racism and the Holocaust Discussion
Alliances and World War I Study Guide
Roots to War and WWII Study Guide
1939- Treaty of Nonaggression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet
After reading the Europe in Crisis Section, you should understand:
The search for strategic advantage among European nations and the creation of opposing alliance systems.
The immediate origins and course of the Great War (World War I).
The Versailles Treaty and associated treaties that ended the war, but left a very difficult legacy that threatened the post-war order in Europe.
The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia that permanently swept away the monarchy and created the world’s first viable Communist state.
The Versailles Treaty and associated treaties that ended the war, but left a very difficult legacy that threatened the post-war order in Europe
The long-term and immediate causes of World War II.
The course of battles and economic management during the war.
Nazi racism and the Holocaust.
The impact of the war on the people of Europe.
Wartime diplomatic relations and plans for the postwar world.
Textbook Reading Sections
World War I p 499- 528
Primary Readings- World War I
War Poets of the Western Front p 516-517
John Mccrae “In Flanders Fields”
Wilfred Owen “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
Secondary Readings
The Development of the Armored Tank - p 514
War Propaganda and the Movies: Charlie Chaplin p. 523
Outside Primary Readings
Bismarck Explains His Foreign Policy
The Kaiser Comments on the Outbreak of the World War
The Outbreak of the Russian Revolution
An Eyewitness Account of the Bolsheviks Seizure of Power
Trotsky Urges the Use of Terror
Textbook Reading Sections
Roots of WWII p. 540- 550, 553- 557
World War II p. 571- 601
Primary Readings - World War II
The Nazi Party Rally (image) p 555
The Munich Settlement p 576-577
Neville Chamberlain’s Evaluation
Winston Churchill’s Response to Munich
The Vichy Regime in France (image) p 595
Secondary Readings
Cinema of the Political Right Left and Right p 548-549
American Women in the Workforce p 593
Outside Primary Readings
Mussolini Heaps Contempt on Political Liberalism
Hitler Denounces the Versailles Treaty
An American Diplomat Witnesses Kristallnacht in Leipzig
Hitler Describes his Goals in Foreign Policy
Mass Murder at Belsen
Supportive Secondary Documents
Article- “War and Economic History” by Prof. Joshua S. Goldstein In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, ed. Joel Mokyr (New York: Oxford University Press,2003) (CR1c)
Potential LEQ Questions
Evaluate the most significant cultural effect of the First World War during the period 1918 to 1939.
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