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HISTORY
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Van Hall/Section 17/Fall 2008
I. PURPOSE: To acquaint students with the fundamental, economic and social
events of the interwar period.
II. METHOD: The instructor has selected 26 topics, arranged roughly in chronological
order, and each will be the subject of a lecture. Questions and comments are
welcome during and after each lecture.
III. TEXT: There is no assigned
text for this course. The instructor will assign readings from various
sources throughout the sixteen-week period.
IV. OUTSIDE READING: Each
student must select and read two books which relate to subjects which fall
roughly within the 1914 to 1939 time period. They must be approved by the
instructor.
V. BOOK REVIEWS: Each student must submit two book reviews. Each review
must be three-to-five pages (c.800 – 1300 words), typewritten and
double-spaced in 12-point font. Two copies of each review must be made (one
for the instructor and one to be retained by the student.) For guidance about
what to put in the review, click: BookReview.
VI. EXAMS: There will be two exams during the semester plus a Final Exam.
All exams consist primarily of essay questions but there are also some identification
questions and a map section.
VII. GRADES: Grades will be
computed on the following basis:
Each Semester Exam will count:
20% of the course grade
Each book review will
count:
10%
The Final Exam will
count:
40%
VIII. GRADE
SCALE:
90 – 100 A
87 – 89 B+
80 – 86 B
77 – 79 C+
70 – 76 C
67 – 69 D+
60 – 66 D
– 59 F
IX. MISSED EXAMS: There is no penalty for missing one or both of the
semester exams. If you miss one semester exam, then the Final Exam will count
as 60% of your course grade. If you miss both exams, then the Final Exam will
count 80%.
THERE ARE NO MAKE UP
EXAMS.
X. REQUIRED OUTCOMES: Successful completion of this course will be
evidence that the student is able to identify the major persons and events of
the interwar period and possess sufficient understanding to discuss those
persons and events cogently both on paper and in conversation. More
specifically, the student will have a workable understanding of three great
competing ideas of the period: communism, liberal democracy and (broadly)
fascism.
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21 August
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Chain Reaction
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26 August
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World War I
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28 August
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World War I
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Treaty
of Brest-Litovsk
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2 September
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Paris Peace Conference
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Bolshevik Coup Documents
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4 September
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Birth of Weimar
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9 September
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Hitler to Putsch
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Treaty of
Versailles
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11 September
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Weimar:
1920s
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16 September
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Russia
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18 September
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Russia
to 1928
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23 September
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Birth of Fascism
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25 September
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Mussolini in the 1920s FIRST BOOK REVIEW
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Weimar Constitution: Text
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30 September
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Post War Democracies
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2 October
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Democracies
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7 October
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First Exam
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9 – 10 October
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FALL BREAK
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14 October
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The Great Depression
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16 October
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Stalin First five-year plan
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21 October
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Stalin: Collectivization
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“Dizzy
with Success”
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23 October
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Hitler to Power
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28 October
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Hitler Domestic
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30 October
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Stalin: Purges
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4 November
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Election Day
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6 November
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Democracies
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11 November
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Mussolini in the 1930s
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13 November
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Second Exam
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18 November
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Popular Front
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20 November
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Spanish Civil War
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25 November
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Spanish Civil War SECOND BOOK REVIEW
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26 – 28 November
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Thanksgiving
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2 December
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Appeasement
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Munich
Pact (1938)
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4 December
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Gathering Storm
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Text of
Hitler-Stalin Pact
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Office
Hours: MW 1:00 – 2:30, 5:00 – 5:20
TTH 10:00 – 12:10
FRI 12:00 – 1:30
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Last update: 16 September 2008
You can reach me by email at: DVanHall@mailbox.sc.edu.
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