History

Discuss how the intellectual movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries undermined many of the traditional values of Western society. Discuss how the intellectual movements of the late 19th and early 20th centuries undermined many of the traditional values of Western society. Base your discussion on the themes and concepts from the readings […]

Do you think someone could come to power like Hitler did, and change laws, and win over a majority of the country? Thesis: America’s response to the crimes that were committed in Germany, and the action that should be taken. “I believe that we may proceed to punish those responsible in full accord with both

Thesis: Debate between Saul Friedlӓnder and Martin Broszat, written in letters, concerning the treatment of Jews, and how it was seen back then compared to now. “…what degree of involvement in the murderous persecution of Jews by the Nazi regime the majority of our people can be accused of, and what manner of guilt they

Thesis: Intentions that led to the Final Solution. “If, for example, a fire destroys a building and an inspection shows that the fire seems to have begun simultaneously at various parts of the building, this in itself – in the present – would be evidence (not indubitable, but probable) that the fire had been ‘intended,’

Thesis: Germans wanted Jews to leave, and not to be able to repopulate. “Forcing the Jews out of each sphere of the life of the German people; forcing the Jews out of the living space of the German people” (244). These rules were seen as the only feasible solution, at that moment, to the Jewish

Thesis: Jewish children being killed in Germany, and Germans being forced away in the aftermath of the war. “After more than eight hundered thousand children of the nation had died of hunger and undernourishment at the close of the War, we witnessed almost one million head of milking cows being driven away from us in

How the Holocaust was to be carried out, but the Final Solution was intended as the conclusion All students are required to respond to other student posts each week The goal here is to ENGAGE in respectful dialogue – be supportive of each other, even as you are critical of each other’s ideas. Gabe: Read

Modernity and War Read Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” and Brooke’s “Peace.” Reflect and respond to these. Base your analysis on the themes and concepts from the readings and lectures. Provide evidence for any arguments you make with quotes and paraphrases accompanied by in-text citations and

Does the Espionage Act pose any threats to the rights and liberties of American citizens? In June 1918, with the war in its final months, the great American labor leader, Socialist and pacifist Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) addressed the Ohio state meeting of the Socialist Party. In this speech that led to his arrest under

Why did Reconstruction fail? Why did Reconstruction fail? Who was president and why was he a failure in regards to Reconstruction? Should the Southern leadership have been punished? You can refer to the Disenfranchisement section of your lessons in week two. Place Your Order Here!