Long periods: In some periods, research presentations continue, and then time to work in the library.
Quiz #4 opens online on Friday, April 1 and closes Thursday evening, April 7 at midnight; covers materials from Weeks 10 and 11, i.e., the legacies of the First World War from before break, and materials on authoritarianism, fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism.
Day 1, Monday, 4/4: The Nazi Seizure of Power, Part 2.
In-class: Discuss primary and secondary source handouts on the Nazi seizure of power and Stalinism; review for Quiz #4, and chronicle current events.
Homework for Day 2/3: Read “Into the Fire Again: World War II, 1939-1945,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 711-721 (Up to ""Behind the Lines"), and answer the following question.
Key Terms and Persons: The Popular Front, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, Nanking, The Spanish Civil War, Guernica, The Axis Powers, The Anschluss, The Munich Conference of 1938, Appeasement, Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, blitzkrieg, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain, Operation Barbarossa, and Pearl Harbor.
Homework question: What were the origins of the Second World War? What connections between Hitler, Nazism, and appeasement might have led to the outbreak of war?
Day 2/3 Long Periods: In some periods, meet in classroom for presentations; time in library to work on capstone projects and oral history interview research.
Day 2/3 Short Periods: The Road to War.
In-class: Discuss the origins and early stages of the Second World War.
Key Terms: The Holocaust (Shoah), Death camps, Stalingrad, the Battle of Midway, kamikaze, the atomic bomb, and the United Nations.
Homework question: How did the Allies turn the tide and defeat the Axis powers in the Second World War - what were the key actions and turning points?
Day 4: The Second World War.
In-class: Discuss the key actions and turning points of the war.