Vocabulary: ubiquitous, plebiscite, malleability, arbitral, abhorrence, illusory, grandeur, ostensibly, rogue, reinvigorate, adaptable, dynamic, pogroms, fascism, genocide
Textbook Reading:
Topic 8.6 (523-531)
Topic 8.7 (535-37)
Topic 8.8 (540-45)
Topic 8.9 (548-550)
Write as a Historian: (532-33)
Questions 1-2 answers must be written out
Assigned Podcast/Video
Guiding Questions Podcast
1. Prof. McDonough states Hitler improvised as much as he planned and was a flexible as leader as well as a gambler. Explain.
2. How does race play a key role in the Third Reich?
3. How do the concentration camps evolve?
Assigned Reading
What Do the Hohenzollerns Deserve
The Failure of a Noble Experiment
Guiding Questions for article “The Failure of a Noble Experiment”
1. How did Remarque’s ideas of war differ from Junger’s?
2. Why do Delahunty and Yoo believe that international peace governed by law fails?
3. How did countries try to “fix” the Hague Convention and did it work?
4. Explain the idea of collective security and what flaws does it have?
5. Both the Geneva Protocol and the Kellogg Briand pact were doomed to fall apart, explain.
6. According to Michael Howard, “mankind would naturally live in a state of perfect harmony if it were not for the vested interests of governments” and that “[t]he whole ‘war system’ was contrived to preserve the power and em- ployment of princes, statesmen, soldiers, diplomats and armaments manufacturers, and to bind their tyranny ever more firmly upon the necks of the people.” Agree or disagree – explain.
AP European History 