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HIST 410N Week 1 Case Study Jules Ferry For
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Case Study 1 Jules Ferry Jules Ferry was
Prime Minister of France as that nation launched
its imperial expansion. In a debate with member
of the French Parliament, Ferry Defends the
decision to expand. Read his remarks and respond
to the following questions
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HIST 410N Week 1 Discussion DQ 1 1900 The Age of
Hope and the Age of Isms For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   1900 The
Age of Hope and the Age of Isms Heres a
statement to consider Imperialism has been the
most powerful force in world history over the
last four or five centuries, carving up whole
continents while oppressing indigenous peoples
and obliterating entire civilizations. Defend or
condemn the argument by giving examples of the
interaction between Western industrial powers and
traditional, non Western societies.
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HIST 410N Week 1 Discussion DQ 2 The First Total
War For more course tutorials
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War World War 1 is said to have been the first
total war. What does that mean? And what does
it mean for people and nations trying to pick up
the pieces and resume normal life?
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HIST 410N Week 2 Case Study Versailles The
Allies Last Horrible Triumph For more course
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2 Versailles The Allies Last Horrible
Triumph This week, you will read the comments of
the German Delegation to the Paris Peace
Conference on the conditions of the peace which
ended World War 1. You will find that document in
the webliography. Many have argued that it was
the way World War 1 ended which made World War 2
inevitable. Read the document
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HIST 410N Week 2 Discussion DQ 1 The Rise of
Totalitarianism For more course tutorials
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Totalitarianism Compare and contrast the two
types of totalitarian governments that arose
after 1917, that is, communism and fascism. What
were the origins of these governments, their
accomplishments, and their failures? What
accounts for the fact that the masses mobilized
to support these movements? Elaborate.
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HIST 410N Week 2 Discussion DQ 2 Nationalism and
the Treaty of Versailles For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Nationalism
and the Treaty of Versailles What were reasons
that led to the ultimate failure of the Treaty of
Versailles? What were the challenges facing the
newly-formed League of Nations, and why was it so
difficult to form a lasting agreement that would
prevent another war? Elaborate.
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HIST 410N Week 3 Case Study The Democarat and the
Dictator For more course tutorials
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Case Study The Democarat and the
Dictator   Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler
both came to power in 1933. They found themselves
in charge of
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HIST 410N Week 3 Discussion DQ 1 Dictatorship and
Democracy For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Dictatorship and
Democracy Analyze Adolph Hitlers rise to power
and the policies he used to rule Germany.
Textbook tyrant? Overheated Nationalist? Or the
right man for at the right time for the right
job?
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HIST 410N Week 3 Discussion DQ 2 World War II and
the Holocaust For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   World War II and the
Holocaust The following statement was taken from
a contemporary account of Germany in 1939
Though the Fuhrers anti-Semitic program
furnished the National Socialist party in the
first instances with a nucleus and a rallying-
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HIST 410N Week 4 Discussion DQ 1 The Cold War
Who Shot First? For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   The Cold War Who
Shot First? The United States accused the Soviet
Union of breaking all its wartime pledges and
holding Eastern Europe hostage while trying to
subvert governments in the west. The Soviet Union
accused the US and its allies of trying surround
and ultimately destroy it. War of words? Or was
somebody telling the truth? And where do our
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HIST 410N Week 4 Discussion DQ 2 Cold War Buzz
Words For more course tutorials
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Words The Cold War its very own verbiage. The
West had more than its share Cold War, Iron
Curtain, Containment, Domino Theory were just a
few. What did they mean in this strange new
post-war environment?  
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HIST 410N Week 4 Midterm Examination For more
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tion (TCO 1, 2) Analyze how World War 1 changed
the economic, social, and political landscapes in
the affected nations. Use examples to explain how
the war affected men and women, government power,
and the economy.
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HIST 410N Week 5 Case Study Winston Churchills
Iron Curtain Speech For more course tutorials
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Churchills Iron Curtain Speech There are many
ways to get a feel for the events of the 20th
Century. One way is through the analysis of
primary source documents. Few documents set the
stage for the second half than Winston
Churchills 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri.
Officially entitled The Sinews of Peace, it
came to be known as The Iron
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HIST 410N Week 5 Discussion DQ 1 Africa and the
West For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Africa and the
West What accounts for the rather late emergence
of African countries as independent
nation-states? Is there something peculiar about
Africa that delayed its drive for independence?
(Begin with a specific African country, and argue
your case.)
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HIST 410N Week 5 Discussion DQ 2 Israel and the
Middle East For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Israel and the
Middle East Why has the Arab-Israeli conflict
been so persistent? What religious and cultural
factors have contributed to the persistent state
of unrest in the Middle East and, in particular,
in what some people refer to as the Holy Land?  
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HIST 410N Week 6 Discussion DQ 1 The End of the
Cold War For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   The End of the Cold
War What impact did Mikhail Gorbachevs ideas of
glasnost (openness), perestroika (restructuring)
and demokratizatsiia (democratization) have on
Communist society? Were these principles
compatible with collectivization and a command
economy? Did Communist leaders favor these
principles or did they feel that their hand were
tied once they were introduced into Communist
society?  
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HIST 410N Week 6 Discussion DQ 2 The not so Cold
War For more course tutorials
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War It would be easy to dismiss the Cold War
simply as proof that Capitalism was a better
theory than Communism. Easy, but not the whole
story. In order for Communism to be relegated to
the dustbin of history, it first had to be proven
that its struggle against Capitalism unecessary
and thus irrelevant. How do the US and the USSR
close the gap in the last quarter of the 20th
Century to allow Communism to go out with a
whimper and not a
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HIST 410N Week 7 Case Study Mikhail Gorbachevs
1988 UN Speech For more course tutorials
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Gorbachevs 1988 UN Speech If the pace of
improving US-Soviet relations seemed rapid,
Mikhail Gorbachevs speech to the United Nations
General Assembly would shift the process into
overdrive. In this remarkable oration, which you
can find by
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HIST 410N Week 7 Discussion DQ 1 Cold War
Nostalgia For more course tutorials
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Nostalgia In the years after the Cold War and the
collapse of the bipolar order, the world has
undergone significant changes. Chief among those
changes has been a perceived deterioration of
world stability, not only in terms of economics
but also in terms of security. What indicators
could lead one to conclude that in the years
following the collapse of the Communist world,
things have gotten more dangerous?
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HIST 410N Week 7 Discussion DQ 2 Brave New World
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com   Brave New World Sothe Cold War is over.
Time to do a victory lap and celebrate the
primacy of American power. But the
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HIST 410N Week 7 Final Exam For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Question
1.1. (TCO 6) The 1914 assassination of the heir
to the Austro-Hungarian throne was a factor in
causing World War I.  What else might be
considered factors? (Points 4)        British
and German competition for the largest global
empire        The arms race to create weapons to
defend empires        The power of nationalism,
which suggested that ones nation is superior to
others
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