Week 12—Nov. 13-17

Modern Europe

Monday: Inter-War Period

Read:

  • A. Daniel Frankforter and William Spellman, Excerpts from “The Troubled Interwar Years,” in The West: A Narrative History, 3rd ed. (New York: Pearson,), 678-688. (On Zotero).

Wednesday: The Holocaust

Watch:

Friday: Discussion #9

Read:

  • “Orwell, Road to Wigan Pier,” January 16, 1998, http://web.archive.org/web/19980116133529/http://pluto.clinch.edu/history/wciv2/civ2ref/wigan.htm.
  • Paul Valery, “On European Civilization and the European Mind, c. 1919, 1922,” Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History, accessed August 20, 2023, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/valery.asp.
  • Benito Mussolini, “What Is Fascism, 1932,” Internet History Sourcebooks: Modern History, accessed August 20, 2023, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/mussolini-fascism.asp.
  • “Parliamentary Elections in Weimar Republic, Germany,” December 2, 2002, https://web.archive.org/web/20021202035105/http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~dgraf/weim.htm.