CONTEMPORARY WORLD, I: Global Wars (1900-50)
TEXTS -- George Orwell, Animal Farm (Signet Classics, 2004); Kevin Sites, In the Hot Zone: One Man, One Year, Twenty Wars (2007); and William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White, The Elements of Style (Longman, 4e, 2000).
CORE -- Visit this page for the second part of our syllabus (Connecting) and to get started with the crucial attitudes and perspectives for our course.
CLASH OF EMPIRES (1900-29)
IMPERIALISM
THE WAR OF THE WORLD -- 1: The Clash of the Empires: watch Parts 1 and 2 [to minute 4.28] for the Japan-Russian War and 1905 Revolution in Russia, and A New History of the 20th Century (Channel 4) for series details. Optional: The full show (Documentary Center] [4.45 hours]: scroll through the first episode to get to the others] and an interview with Niall Ferguson (Carnegie Council).
IMPERIALISM -- History of Religion (Maps of War): "See 5,000 years of religion in 90 seconds;" Imperialism (Crash Course World History) [14 minutes]; and The British Empire: Trading Routes and Construction (The Map as History). Optional: Turn of the Century Imperialism (Smitha) and William Schneider, "Colonies at the 1900 World Fair," History Today, 31/5 (1981).
Africa -- Imperialism in Africa, 1914 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Imperial Expansion in Africa to 1880 and Partition of Africa, 1880-1914 (Pearson).
Asia -- Imperialism in Asia, 1914 (McGraw-Hill: Interactive Maps) and Japanese Expansion, 1870-1918 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Imperialism in South Asia, 1900 (Prentice-Hall: Audio Guided Tour) and Nations and Empires, 1850-1914: Russian Expansion, 1801-1914 (Norton iMaps).
CULTURES OF CREATIVITY
CULTURES -- Cultures of Creativity (Nobel Museum).
Santiniketan -- Santiniketan (West Bengal Tourism); Nobel Prize for Literature 1913: Rabindranath Tagore; and Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize for Economics 1998. Optional: Home Page; UNESCO World Heritage Site; and Santiniketan to Smithsonian: A Tribute to Tagore: Welcome and Invocation [26 minutes] and Rabindranath Tagore: Citizen of His Country and the Universe [33.32 minutes] (Smithsonian, 2011).
Budapest -- Hungary's Nobel Prize Winners (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1937: Albert Szent-Györgyi.
Vienna -- Nobel Laureates and the University of Vienna (Universität Wien) and Viennese coffee culture listed as UNESCO intangible heritage (CNTN). Optional: Vienna's coffee house culture (BBC) [3.30 minutes]; UNESCO Heritage - Vienna cafe culture: In pics (MSN); and The Age of Insight: How the Cross-Pollination of Art and Science in Early 20th-Century Vienna Shaped Modern Culture (Maria Popova).
NOBEL PRIZES -- Short about the Nobel Prize and Alfred Nobel's Life and Work (Nobelprize); Nobel Prize Winners by Country with related charts/graphs (ChartsBin); and Nobel Prizes: Is there a secret formula to winning one? (BBC). Optional: Nobel's full biography, Nobel Prize Facts, Nobel Laureates and Research Affiliations, and From the First Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1901 (Nobelprize); The Norwegian Nobel Committee (Nobelprize); List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates (Wikipedia); and Nobel Peace Prize Winners from 1901 to the present (The Nobel Prize Internet Archive). Study Peace and at least one other recipient in any other category.
Peace -- 1901: Henry Dunant and Frédéric Passy. Optional: Nobel Peace Prize Winners from 1901 to the present (The Nobel Prize Internet Archive).
Physics -- 1901: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, and X-rays and Imaging Life; and 1906: Sir Joseph John Thomson and Vacuum Tubes.
Physiology or Medicine -- 1902: Ronald Ross and Malaria; 1904: Ivan Pavlov, Pavlov's Dog game, and Cartoon; 1905: Robert Koch and Tuberculosis; 1906: Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Nerve Signaling; and 1908: Ilya Mechnikov and Paul Ehrlich, and The Immune System and Immune Responses.
VERDUN
THE WAR OF THE WORLD -- 1: The Clash of the Empires: Part 2 [begin at minute 4.28] to Part 3 [end at minute 5.54].
WORLD WAR I: Europe -- Europe Plunges into War (The Map as History); The war to end all wars (BBC); World War I in Europe, 1914-1918 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations); The Western Front and the Eastern Front, 1914-1918 (Prentice-Hall); and Archdukes, Cynicism, and World War I (Crash Course World History) [12 minutes]. Optional: Europe's Slide to War, The War: August 1914 to December 1916, and Revolution, War and Settlement: 1917-19 (Smitha); World War One (Mapping History); and World War I: the European and Middle Eastern Theaters and War and Revolution (Norton iMaps)
THE WESTERN FRONT -- The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (PBS): Study fully the Prologue, Part 1 (Explosion/Stalemate and Trench Warfare), Part 2 (Total War/Slaughter), Part 3 (Mutiny/Collapse), Timeline, Maps & Battles; and The Western Front and the Birth of Total War (BBC); Prisoners of War (Luminous Lint), noting the international flavor in the German camp in Münster (c. 1915). Optional: 1918 Western Front and summary (BBC: 20th Century Battlefields, 2007) [60 minutes]; France at War: Tirailleurs Senegalais for African troops; and Indian Troops at the Front (1916) (The First World War Poetry Digital Archive).
VERDUN -- The Battle of Verdun (PBS): Introduction, Battle Animation, and Historian Commentary; Battle of Verdun: 21 February 1916-July 1916 (BBC); The Battle of Verdun [4 minutes]; and Verdun: Shell Shock [1.30 minutes]. Optional: The Great War, Episode 11: Hell Cannot Be So Terrible (BBC, 1964) [40 minutes]; Verdun: The Nightmare (Deadly Battles of World War I); Visualizing Verdun (France at War); and Verdun 1916 map (Bereznay).
CULTURES OF CREATIVITY -- Conflict Map: 20C Wars (Nobelprize).
NOBEL PRIZES -- Study Peace and at least one other recipient in any other category.
Chemistry -- 1919: Fritz Haber (Nobelprize). Optional: 100 Years Of Ammonia Synthesis: How A Single Patent Changed The World (summary) (Science Today, 2008).
Peace -- 1917: International Committee of the Red Cross (Nobelprize). Optional: The Red Cross: Three-Time Recipient of the Peace Prize.
Physics -- 1918: Max Planck and The Quantised World (Nobelprize).
GALLIPOLI
WORLD WAR I: Beyond Europe -- World War I: the Global Theater (Norton iMaps) and WWI Casualties & Deaths (looking especially at "Casualties as % of Forces") (PBS: The Great War).
MIDDLE EAST -- Imperial History of the Middle East (Maps of War); The Middle East at the Beginning of the 20th Century (The Map as History); The Ottoman Empire, 1914-1918 (Prentice-Hall: Audio Guided Tour); The Middle East during World War One (BBC); The Great War, Part 24: Allah Made Mesopotamia (BBC, 1964) [40 minutes]; and Lawrence of Arabia (1962) trailer [5 minutes]. Optional: The Turkish Army at War: A Photo Essay (World War One); Lawrence of Arabia (PBS); and The Real Lawrence of Arabia: Putting the Man and His Myth Into Historical Context (NPR).
GALLIPOLI -- Battle for Gallipoli, February 1915-January 1916 (BBC); The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century: Gallipoli (PBS): Study the brief introduction, animated map, Historian Commentary (Turkish and Australian perspectives), and Voices of the Great War; Gallipoli, the Documentary Movie by Yavuz Can for Turkuaz TV Video [10 minutes]; Gallipoli film trailer [2 minutes] and ending [6 minutes]; and The Pogues, And the band played Waltzing Matilda [8 minutes]. Optional: The Great War, Episode 09: Please God Send Us A Victory (BBC, 1964) [40 minutes]; Peter Jackson - Restored Gallipoli Film - ANZAC Day [3 minutes]; Australia in World War One (BBC); Gallipoli: The First Day (ABC Australia): a rich 3D documentary; and Swedish power metal band Sabaton's Cliffs of Gallipoli, The Art of War (2008) [6 minutes].
VERSAILLES, ISTANBUL, AND PETROGRAD
THE WAR OF THE WORLD -- 1: The Clash of Empires, Parts 3 [begin minute 5.54], 4, and 5 for Russia, Turkey, and Versailles.
VERSAILLES -- The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century (PBS): Part 4 (Hatred & Hunger/War without End: text and Voices: Woodrow Wilson: The Versailles Treaty [text, audio, and Historian Commentary]), WWI Casualty and Death Tables, and Then and Now: The Shaping of the 21st Century; and Influenza Epidemic (McGraw Hill: Interactive Map). Optional: The Paris Conference and Versailles Treaty (Smitha); Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" Speech, 8 January 1918 (firstworldwar.com) and Fourteen Points; and Treaty of Versailles, 28 June 1919 (introduction and clause 231).
Territorial Changes -- Europe 1914, Europe 1920 (Prentice-Hall: Audio Guided Tour) and Africa, 1919-39 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: World Migration, ca. 1860-1920 (Pearson: Global Snapshot) and Europe After the Treaty of Versailles, 1918, Territorial Changes in Europe and the Near East after World War I, Outcomes of World War I in Europe, North Africa, and Some of the Middle East, and Europe in 1923 (Norton iMaps).
League of Nations -- The League of Nations (McGraw-Hill).
ISTANBUL -- Turkey's Struggle for National Independence, Secularization, and Turkey, 1924 map (Smitha). Optional: Greco-Turkish War (1919-22): account (Lahanas) and map.
Greeks -- Sazak village ruins photograph (featured by Ferguson).
Armenians -- Armenian Genocide (McGraw-Hill: Beyond the Textbook) and Turkey: A Family Erased (PBS: Frontline/World): an Armenian-American family faces the massacre in this text and video [12 minutes]. Optional: Talking About Genocide: Armenia 1915 (Peace Pledge Union); The expulsion of non-Turkish ethnic and religious groups from Turkey to Syria during the 1920s and early 1930s (Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence); and A new wave of refugees in the city that was Smyrna (BBC, 2012).
PETROGRAD -- Revolution and Nationalism, 1900-1939, 1: Revolutions in Russia, pages 864-73 (McDougal Littell). Optional: Civil War, Lenin and Rise of Stalin (Smitha); Seventeen Moments in Soviet History; Battleship Potemkin: Odessa Steps scene (Eisenstein 1925) [7.30 minutes]; and The Battleship Potemkin (Wikipedia), especially Introduction and "The Odessa Steps sequence."
CULTURES OF CREATIVITY
CULTURES
Copenhagen -- Niels Bohr (PBS: A Science Odyssey). Optional: Relativity and Energy from Matter (Nobelprize); Einstein's Big Idea (NOVA); Albert Einstein: Image and Impact (American Institute of Physics); and Einstein (BBC: The Mark Steel Lectures) [60 minutes].
The Pasteur Institute -- The Pasteur Institute (Nobelprize). Optional: Institut Pasteur and Pasteur Foundation.
NOBEL PRIZES -- Study Peace and at least one other recipient in any other category.
Chemistry -- 1925: Richard Zsigmondy and Microscopes (Nobelprize).
Peace -- 1919/20: Woodrow Wilson, 1920: Léon Bourgeois, and 1922: Fridtjof Nansen.
Physics -- 1920: Charles Edouard Guillaume and Invar & Steel Alloys; 1921: Albert Einstein, and Structure of Matter, Energy from Matter, and Relativity (Nobelprize); 1922: Niels Bohr, Niels Bohr (PBS), and The Bohr Model; and 1927: Arthur H. Compton and C.T.R. Wilson, and Observing the World of Particles: The Cloud Chamber (Nobelprize).
Physiology or Medicine -- 1923: Frederick G. Banting and John Macleod, and Diabetes and Insulin; and 1924: Willem Einthoven and ECG/Electrocardiogram.
THE PLAN (1929-39)
USA, USSR, and India
THE WAR OF THE WORLD -- 2: The Plan: watch Parts 6 and 7 [end at minute 5.47]. Optional: Moscow Canal to the Volga River: map for a cruise.
USA -- Years of Crisis, 1919-1939, 2: A Worldwide Depression, pages 904-9 (McDougal Littell). Optional: The Great Depression, to 1935 (Smitha); LecturePoint: U.S. History, Lecture 8: Depression and the New Deal (1929-1940); The Great Depression (Mapping History); New Deal Network (The Roosevelt Institute); Picturing the 1930s (Smithsonian Institute); and The Great Depression (Modern American Poetry).
Dust Bowl -- The Dust Bowl (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations); Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother Photographs in the Farm Security Administration Collection: An Overview (LOC); and Dorothea Lange (Picturing America On Screen). Optional: The Dust Bowl (Pearson: History Interactive); The Dustbowl (PBS, 2012); Migrant Mother (Picture America); and Girl from iconic Great Depression photo: 'We were ashamed' (CNN).
Tennessee Valley Authority -- Tennessee Valley Authority (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Hoover Dam (PBS: American Experience).
USSR -- Revolution and Nationalism, 1900-1939, 2: Stalinist Russia, pages 874-81 and 892 (McDougal Littell); 1939: Great Fergana Canal (Seventeen Moments in Soviet History); and The Soviet Union, 1928-1941 (Pearson: Audio Guided Tour). Optional: Purges and Hysteria in the Soviet Union, Religion in Russia and the Soviet Union, to 1945, Crisis and War in Europe, 1937 to 1940 (Smitha); Seventeen Moments in Soviet History; The Stalin Project; and Soviet Posters 1917-1991.
INDIA -- Revolution and Nationalism, 1900-1939, 4: Nationalism in India and Southeast Asia, pages 887-91 (McDougal Littell); Nationalist Violence in India, 1908-1939 (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston); Mohatma Gandhi Biography [5 minutes]; and Gandhi: His Triumph changed the World Forever (movie trailer).
CULTURES OF CREATIVITY
CULTURES
The Chicago School of Economics -- Nobel Laureates (U. of Chicago). Optional: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1982: George J. Stigler.
Berkeley -- UC Berkeley's 22 Nobel Prize winners (UC Berkeley).
Cambridge -- Research at Cambridge: Nobel Prize Winners. Optional: A Nobel prize winner, his dreadful school report and a lesson for teachers today: Sir John Gurdon, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2012 (Daily Mail).
NOBEL PRIZES -- Study Peace and at least one other recipient in any other category.
Peace -- 1931: Jane Addams and Nicholas Murray Butler.
Physics -- 1936: Victor F. Hess and Carl David Anderson, and Observing the World of Particles: The Bubble Chamber (Nobelprize); and 1939: Ernest Lawrence, Lawrence and the Cyclotron (American Institute of Physics), and Accelerators (Nobelprize).
Physiology or Medicine -- 1929: Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Hopkins, and Vitamin B1; and 1930: Karl Landsteiner and The Blood Typing Game (Nobelprize).
GERMANY, CHINA, and JAPAN
THE WAR OF THE WORLD -- 2: The Plan: Parts 7 [begin at minute 5.47], 8, 9, and 10.
GERMANY -- Years of Crisis, 1919-1939, 3: Fascism Rises in Europe and 4: Aggressors Invade Nations, pages 910-19 (McDougal Littell); Unemployment in Europe, 1932 (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston); and Politics in Europe, 1930s and German and Italian Expansion, 1935-1939 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Depression and War (Smitha); The Political Revolution of the 1930s (Mapping History); and Aggression in Europe to 1939 (Pearson: MapMaster).
CHINA -- Revolution and Nationalism, 1900-1939, 3: Imperial China Collapses, pages 882-86 (McDougal Littell); Civil War in China, 1927-1936 (Pearson); and The Long March, 1934-1935 (Norton iMaps). Optional: China, Civil War and Japan's Intrusion, to 1936 (Smitha).
JAPAN -- Japanese Expansion, 1933-1941 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Japanese Politics and Society, to 1927, Japan and Emperor Hirohito to 1936, and Japan Wars against China and the Soviet Union: 1936-38 (Smitha); Japanese Supremacy in the Pacific, 1914-41 (McGraw-Hill: Interactive Map Quiz); Japan's Expanding Empire to 1934 (Prentice-Hall); The Japanese Empire in Asia, 1933 (Norton iMaps); and Tractor Drivers (Seventeen Moments in Soviet History).
CULTURES OF CREATIVITY
CULTURES
The Solvay Conferences -- Solvay Conference (Wikipedia) and Is this the greatest meeting of minds ever? Einstein and Curie among SEVENTEEN Nobel prize winners at historic conference (Daily Mail, 2011). Optional: Institut international de physique Solvay (Home Page); Can you name the Nobel prize-winning participants of the 1927 Solvay Conference? (Sporcle); Solvay Conferences: 1911 and 1927 (Numericana); and Solvay Physics Conference 1927 [3 minutes].
Paris -- Shakespeare and Company: Wikipedia, Hemingway's Paris, EuropeanTrips, and official site.
NOBEL PRIZES
Peace -- 1938: Nansen International Office for Refugees.
Physics -- 1932: Werner Heisenberg and The Quantised World (Nobelprize). Optional: Heisenberg / Uncertainty (American Institute of Physics) and A Science Odyssey: Than + Now (PBS).
THE KILLING SPACE (1939-50)
COME AND SEE
WAR OF THE WORLD -- 3: Killing Space: Parts 11-15 (the full program).
WORLD WAR II -- World War II, 1939-41: Western Europe and Eastern Europe (The National Archives) [6 minutes]; The War goes global, June 1941-end 1942 (The Map as History); World War II, 1939-1945, 1: Hitler's Lightening War and Japan's Pacific Campaign, pages 922-35 (McDougal Littell); and World War II (Crash Course World History) [13 minutes]. Optional: LecturePoint: U.S. History, 10: WWII: Battle Front (1939/41-1945) and World War II (McGraw Hill: Interactive Map).
Europe -- World War II in Europe and North Africa, 1939-1941 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: War in Europe, 1941-45 (Smitha); World War Two: The European Theater (Mapping History); German Aggression, 1936-1941 (Pearson: Geography Interactive); World War Two European Theater Overview (US Military Academy); World War II: Europe (McGraw-Hill: Interactive Map Quiz); World War II in Europe, 1940-1945 (McGraw-Hill); and Europe at War (Norton iMaps).
Asia
Nanjing (1937-38) -- Scarred by history: The Rape of Nanjing and 'Good Nazi of Nanjing' sparks debate (BBC). Optional: The Nanking Massacre Project (Yale Divinity School Library); At the Rape of Nanking: A Nazi Who Saved Lives (NY Times); and Shelter Under The Swastika: The John Rabe Story (NPR, 2010).
Pearl Harbor (1941) -- Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening (BBC) and Surprise Attack! Pearl Harbor and Japanese Aggression, December 1941-June 1942 (Pearson: History Interactive).
EASTERN EUROPE
Operation Barbarossa -- Operation Barbarossa (Holt, Rinehart & Winston); The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front, Einsatzgruppen (Mobile Killing Units), and Einsatzgruppen activity in the Baltic area, Ukraine, and Soviet Union(USHMM). Optional: From Persecution to Mass Murder: Operation Barbarossa (Yad Vashem); Police Battalion 101 in Poland (Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team): the Germans who executed some 1500 Jews from the Polish town of Jozefow on 13 July 1942; Jedwabne pogrom (Wikipedia); and A Geography of Complicity: Spaces and Mentalities in Wehrmacht participation in Einsatzgruppen Killings in the Soviet Union (USHMM: Geographies of the Holocaust).
Babi Yar -- Kiev and Babi Yar: article, maps, and photographs (USHMM). Optional: Babi Yar (Death Camps); Babi-Yar-I (The Berdichev Revival); Yevgeni Yevtushenko's poem, Babi Yar (1961) and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 113: Babi Yar (1962) (Wikipedia); and Babi Yar Park, Denver, CO (Mizel Museum).
Katyn Massacre (1940) -- The Katyn Massacre (PBS: WWII Behind Closed Doors) and Katyn Memorial, Krakow (Panoramio). Optional: US 'hushed up' Soviet guilt over Katyn (BBC).
Come and See (1985) -- Elem Klimov's film Come and See and trailer [2 minutes]: a young partisan's experience with a German SS Einsatzgruppen killing squad in Byelorussia (now Republic of Belarus) in 1942; pistol pointing scene [1 minute]; and Roger Ebert's review. Optional: Don’t Look Back: Come and See (Senses of Cinema); Come and See: An Epic of Derangement (3:AM Magazine); an interview with the director [20 minutes]; God Tortures, Kills Billions: Revelation 6.1-11 (The Brick Testament); and Johnny Cash, The Man Comes Around [4.30 minutes].
STALINGRAD and MIDWAY
THE WAR OF THE WORLD -- 4: A Tainted Victory: Parts 16-17 [end at minute 6.02].
20th CENTURY BATTLEFIELDS (BBC, 2007) -- Study either 1942 Stalingrad and summary or 1942 The Battle of Midway and summary [60 minutes each], if not both.
STALINGRAD -- World War II: Eastern Europe, 1942-1945 (The National Archives) [2 minutes] and The Soviet-German War 1941-1945 and Hitler's Invasion of Russia in World War Two (BBC). Optional: 1943: The Nazi Tide Stops: The Battle of Stalingrad (Seventeen Moments in Soviet History): introduction, images, music, video, and photo essay; Deadliest Battle (PBS: Secrets of the Dead, 2010); Early Battles on the Eastern Front (PBS: Behind Closed Doors); and Fedor Bondarchuk, Stalingrad (2013).
Kursk -- 1943: 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, and Battle of Kursk (Seventeen Moments in Soviet History). Optional: The Battle of Kursk: Myths and Reality (Michael J. Licari) and Deportation of Minorities, Holocaust, Katyn Forest Massacre, and The Cult of Personality (Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible) (Seventeen Moments in Soviet History).
MIDWAY -- World War II in Asia and the Pacific, 1941-1945 and The Battle of Midway, 1942 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations); The Battle of Midway (BBC); and Catawba Alumnus Pilot of Famous Flying Dud. Optional: Battle of Midway: The Japanese Attack and The American Counterattack (US Navy History) [9 minutes].
CULTURES OF CREATIVITY -- With Fascism on the Doorstep: The Nobel Institution in Norway, 1940-1945 (Nobelprize).
DRESDEN and HIROSHIMA
THE WAR OF THE WORLD -- 4: A Tainted Victory: Parts 17 [begin at minute 6.03]-19 [end at minute 8.45].
WORLD WAR II -- World War II: Western Europe, 1942-1945, Asia, 1939-45, and Pacific, 1939-1945 (The National Archives) [11 minutes]; and World War II, 1939-1945, 4: The Allied Victory, pages 922-35 and 940-59 (McDougal Littell). Optional: The Second World War (Norton iMaps: America) and The Second World War (Norton iMaps: Western Civilization); and World War Two: World War II in Europe and North Africa, 1942-1945 (Prentice-Hall: Audio Guided Tour).
DRESDEN (13-15 February 1945) -- British Bombing Strategy in World War Two (BBC) and The Bombing of Dresden in World War II for photographs (Wikipedia). Optional: Britain and the United States Bomb Germany (Smitha); The Bombing of Germany (PBS: American Experience); Remembering the Dresden Bombing (BBC, 2005); Winston Churchill and the Bombing of Dresden (The National Archives); Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities (World War II Database); The Bombers and the Bombed: Coventry, England in 1940 and Lubeck, Germany in 1942 (BBC); and Build a Rocket (NOVA).
Frauenkirche -- Wikipedia: images. Optional: Peace and Reconciliation (Frauenkirche Home Page).
Tomaso Albinoni, Adagio in G Minor -- performance [11.30 minutes: listen in background while studying] and controversy (Wikipedia).
HIROSHIMA (06 August 1945) -- Japan: No Surrender in World War Two and Hiroshima remembers atomic bomb (BBC); and 24 Hours After Hiroshima (National Geographic Explorer) [50 minutes]. Optional: War against Japan, 1942-45 (Smitha) and Hiroshima videos (BBC).
Enola Gay -- Rendezvous with History: Thomas W. Ferebee and the Enola Gay (NC Museum of History, 2008); Interview With Crew of the Enola Gay: introduction [minute 0.00-0.30] and pilot Paul Tibbets, bomber Ferebee, and co-pilot Theodore van Kirk [minutes 3.15-end]; and Family Homesite of Colonel Thomas W. Ferebee (NC Historical Markers). Optional: Last Hiroshima bomber: "I'd do it again": Van Kirk (RTAmerica, 2010) [12 minutes]; 'One hell of a big bang': Tibbets interview (2002, The Guardian); Enola Gay Crewigned photograph and Ferebee's 2000 obituary (photos 178 and 179) (The Manhattan Project Heritage Association).
Memorial -- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum WebSite.
Krzysztof Penderecki: Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (1960) -- performance [9 minutes] and information (Wikipedia).
CULTURES OF CREATIVITY: Nobel Peace Prize -- 1944: International Committee of the Red Cross and The Red Cross Movement (Nobelprize). Optional: Prisoners of War (Nobelprize).
AUSCHWITZ
THE WAR OF THE WORLD -- 4: A Tainted Victory: Parts 19 [begin at minute 8.45]-20.
THE HOLOCAUST -- The Final Solution (The Holocaust, The Shoah) (The Map as History); Holocaust History: Animated Maps: World War II and the Holocaust, The Holocaust, European rail system, 1939, Dachau, Resistance, Warsaw Ghetto, Liberation, and The Aftermath of the Holocaust and Wannsee Conference and the "Final Solution" (USHMM); and The Holocaust, 1939-1945 (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations). Optional: Introduction to the Holocaust; The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students, Mapping the Holocaust, and Final Solutions: Murderous Racial Hygiene, 1939-1945 (USHMM); The Holocaust (Yad Vashem); Holocaust Memorials (Facing History and Ourselves); Memory of the Camps and Shtetl (PBS); Deportation Railways and Hitler's "Final Solution": Jews Marked for Death (Norton iMaps); and Deportation and Settlement, 1939-1944 (McGraw-Hill: Palmer).
AUSCHWITZ -- Article and animated map (USHMM) and Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (PBS). Optional: A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz/Birkenau (Remember.org: A Cybrary of the Holocaust); Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum: History; and Escape from Auschwitz (PBS).
THE RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS -- Rescue: story and Animated Map (USHMM) and The Righteous among the Nations (Yad Vashem). Optional: Stories of Moral Courage (The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous) and Righteous Gentiles (PBS Frontline: Shtetl).
Pankiewicz (1983): Krakow, Poland -- Tadeusz Pankiewicz (Wikipedia). Optional: Interview with Pankiewicz, with clip 2 in his pharmacy (USHMM: Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, 1985) and The Pharmacy Under the Eagle (Jewish Krakow: A visual and virtual tour).
Schlinder (1993): Krakow, Poland -- Oskar Schindler: An Unlikely Hero (USHMM) and the ring scene from Schlinder's List (1993). Optional: Schlinder (Yad Vashem); Krakow maps (USHMM); and Museum in Schindler's Factory and images (ProToursCracow).
Sugihara (1986): Kovno, Lithuania-- Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara (USHMM). Optional: Visas to Japan: Chiune Sempo Sugihara (Yad Vashem) and Visa for Life: The Remarkable Story of Chiune & Yukiko Sugihara and the Rescue of Thousands of Jews Gallery (The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance Multimedia Learning Center).
Wallenberg (1963): Budapest, Hungary -- Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Jews in Budapest (USHMM) and Raoul Wallenberg Bust (Architect of the Capital: Explore Capital Hill). Optional: Raoul Wallenberg (Yad Vashem) and Budapest and Budapest maps (USHMM).
FOUR FREEDOMS -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "The Four Freedoms" (06 January 1941): recording and text (American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches); and Free Speech Personified: Norman Rockwell's inspiring and enduring painting (Bruce Cole). Optional: the first page of Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech, The Saturday Evening Post, 1943 (Picturing America) and all four paintings at Norman Rockwell and the Four Freedoms (America and World War II); Rockwell's Four Freedoms (Saturday Evening Post).
CULTURES OF CREATIVITY: Nobel Peace Prize -- 1986: Elie Wiesel. Optional: The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
ANIMAL FARM
ORWELL
--
George Orwell,
Why I Write
and
Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm (March
1947) [Word copies available on Blackboard's Course Materials: Documents], and
George Orwell and The Last Man in Europe (The History Guide).
Optional:
Orwell,
Future of a Ruined Germany: Rural Slum Cannot Help Europe (8 April 1945)
and
You and
the Atomic Bomb (19 October 1945); Robert Pearce,
Animal Farm: sixty years on (History Today, 2005);
Animal Farm
cartoon [72 minutes];
and
The Red Cross Movement: Prisoners of War Game (Nobelprize):
a game based on the Third Geneva Convention (1929).
COLD WAR -- World War II, 1939-1945, 5: Europe and Japan in Ruins, pages 948-51 (McDougal Littell). Optional: The United Nations, Victors against the Defeated, and Cold War: 1945-49 (Smitha); Europe and the Cold War (McGraw-Hill: In-Motion Animations); Deportation and Settlement, 1945-1950 (McGraw-Hill: Palmer); Optional: The Cold War (Norton iMaps); Cold War (Macmillan: Audio Map); The Cold War (Mapping History); The Cold War in Europe (Pearson: MapMaster); and Decolonization in Africa, Postwar Alliances: The Far East, Europe, North Africa, The Middle East (Norton iMaps).
Berlin -- Division of Berlin, 1945 (McDougal Littell) and The Berlin Airlift (PBS), for the map. Optional: The Berlin Wall (Essential Architecture); Airlift Saves Blockaded Berlin and Learn More about the Berlin Airlift (Pearson: History Interactive); and The Occupation of Germany and Austria (Norton iMaps).
The Marshall Plan -- The Marshall Plan (Holt, Rinehart & Winston) and For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan (Library of Congress).
NATO and Warsaw Pact -- NATO and Warsaw Pact Countries (Norton iMaps). Optional: NATO (CBS), timeline and interactive map.
USSR -- Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives (GMU). Optional: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom (Gulag History); Days and Lives (GMU); Forced Labor Camps on-line exhibition (Open Society Archives); Gulag (Duke U. Libraries), map and links; and Sakharov: Soviet Physics, Nuclear Weapons & Human Rights (American Institute of Physics).
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