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Academic Year 2000/2001
Europe in the Age of Violence, 1914-1945
HIST 209 SP
This course studies the history of Europe during a period of unprecedented conflict and nearly uninterrupted turmoil. Two world wars, revolutions, social and national antagonisms, ideological combat, racial hatreds, and
extraordinary political leaders,
such as Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Churchill, and de Gaulle, determined the lives and destinies of Europeans during these three intense and dangerous decades. Very close attention will be given to the origins,
conduct, and consequences of both
world wars; Communism, Fascism and Nazism; and the crises of democracy in Britain, France, and Spain.
MAJOR READINGS
James Joll, THE ORIGINS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR Sheila Fitzpatrick, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Denis Mack Smith, MUSSOLINI Stanley G. Payne, A HISTORY OF FASCISM Eugene Weber, THE HOLLOW YEARS P.M.H. Bell, THE
ORIGINS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN
EUROPE Martin Kitchen, EUROPE BETWEEN THE WARS Alan Bullock, HITLER AND STALIN Paul Preston, THE COMING OF THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR George Orwell, HOMAGE TO CATALONIA Robert Paxton, VICHY FRANCE: OLD GUARD AND NEW
ORDER
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two papers and a final examination, or two hour examinations and a final examination.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course is also open to students who have taken HIST203, Modern Europe; there is no prerequisite for this course. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the
instructor prior to the first class,
they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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