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HIST 410N Week 1 Case Study Jules Ferry For more
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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 1. According to Ferry, what recent
developments in world trade have made it urgent
for France to have colonies?
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HIST 410N Week 1 Discussion DQ 2The First Total
War For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com  
The First Total 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 1 Discussion DQ 11900 The Age of
Hope and the Age of Isms For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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. Were these
contacts essentially positive or negative?
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HIST 410N Week 2 Case Study Versailles The
Allies Last Horrible Triumph For more classes
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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 and answer the
following questions
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HIST 410N Week 2 Discussion DQ 1The Rise of
Totalitarianism For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   The Rise of
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 2Nationalism and
the Treaty of Versailles For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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 Democrat and the
Dictator For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om    HIST 410N Week 3 Case Study The Democarat
and the Dictator   Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph
Hitler both came to power in 1933. They found
themselves in charge of nations still suffering
from the consequences of World War 1 and the
Great Depression. Unemployment in the US was
nearly 25, while nearly one-third of Germanys
workforce had been idled.
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HIST 410N Week 3 Discussion DQ 1Dictatorship and
Democracy For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
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 2World War II and
the Holocaust For more classes visit www.snaptutor
ial.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-cry, it was swept into
office by two things with which the Jewish
Problem did not have the slightest connection.
On the one side was economic distress and the
revulsion against Versailles
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HIST 410N Week 4 Discussion DQ 1The Cold War Who
Shot First? For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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 Isms fit in? In
particular nationalism?
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HIST 410N Week 4 Discussion DQ 2Cold War Buzz
Words For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  Cold War Buzz 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
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Question
(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 classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Case Study Winston
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 Curtain Speech, in
which Churchill laid out the challenges for the
West in general, and the US and Britain in
particular, regarding what would soon be known as
the Cold War.
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HIST 410N Week 5 Discussion DQ 2Israel and the
Middle East For more classes visit www.snaptutoria
l.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 5Discussion DQ 1Africa and the
West For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.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 6 Case Study Ho Chi Minh and
Vietnamese Independence For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Case Study Ho Chi
Minh and Vietnamese Independence Was Ho Chi Minh
a Communist? To many Americans he was. But to
many Vietnamese he was a nationalist hero, and to
even a few Americans he was that as well, plus a
friend, and ally and a comrade in arms during
World War 2. It may be hard to paint Ho with any
color other than gray, and now, nearly 50 years
after his death and 40 years after the end of the
American war in Vietnam, even that color has
faded with time. What we do have are his words.
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HIST 410N Week 6 Discussion DQ 1The End of the
Cold War For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.c
om   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 2The not so Cold
War For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com  
The not so Cold 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 bang? 
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HIST 410N Week 7 Case Study Mikhail Gorbachevs
1988 UN Speech For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   Case Study Mikhail
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 clicking on the link below,Gorbachev
emphatically declared that all nations must have
the freedom to choose their own destiny, that
ideology had no place in foreign affairs, and
that great powers should renounce the use of
force in international relations. Review his
speech and answer in essay form the following
questions
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HIST 410N Week 7 Discussion DQ 1Cold War
Nostalgia For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.
com   Cold War 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 2Brave New
World For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com
  Brave New World Sothe Cold War is over. Time
to do a victory lap and celebrate the primacy of
American power. But the celebration seemed
short-lived, as there were plenty of other
concerns. Nothing is as it should be. Our
adversaries are now our allies, and our allies
are now competitors. The end of the Cold War
knocked down the Iron Curtain, but it also
destroyed conventional economic patterns. Is the
end of the Cold War proving to be good for world
peace, but not so good for world business?
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HIST 410N Week 7 Final Exam For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.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        All of the above  
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