Web 'Text': The 20th Century World
I. The Intellectual Roots of the Twentieth Century
Read:
Theoretical Foundations of the Twentieth Century
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Read:
Marxism
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(the Hayek and Freud books also fit this category)
II. The New Imperialism
Read:
New Imperial Order
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III. World War I
(View/Review from the following videos widely available:
For Whom the Bell Tolls A Farewell to Arms
All Quiet on the Western Front Guns of August
The African Queen Lawrence of Arabia)
IV. The Bolshevik Revolution
(View/review from the video films:
Nicholas and Alexandria
Reds)
Read:
The Russian Revolution
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V. Age of Anxiety
Read:
Age of Anxiety
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VI. Nationalism and the Interwar Period
(View/review the video film
Gandhi)
Read:
The Interwar Period
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Read:
China and the West
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VII. The Depression
Read:
The Depression
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(View/review the video film
The Good Earth)
VIII. World War II
(View/review from the video films
Cabaret Casablanca The Desert Fox
MacArthur Patton Memphis Belle
The Longest Day To Hell and Back Battle of the Bulge
Sands of Iwo Jima Midway Run Silent, Run Deep
Guadalcanal Diary PT109 Bridge Over the River Kwai
Bataan Tora, Tora, Tora Hiroshima)
Read:
World War II Lectures
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IX. The Holocaust
(View/Review from the video films
The Diary of Anne Frank
Holocaust
Spindler's List
Judgement at Nuremberg)
X. The Cold War
(View/review
The Missiles of October)
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XI. The European Union
Read about the EU:
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XII. The Third World War
Read five from among the articles in ejps
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