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    HISTORY 12

    May 25-28 (“On” week)

    WWII

    • Assignment 3 – WWII:  Ethical Dimensions in War (Due week of May 31)
      • Relationships: Nation to nation
        • Some key points/ideas:
          • Autarky
          • Jingoism
            • Germany, Italy, Japan (background read Chapter 6 in GF)
          • Lebensraum
          • Anschluss & Austria
          • Diplomacy
          • Appeasement
            • Sudetenland
            • Munich Pact & Czechoslovakia
          • Propaganda
          • Non-Aggression Pact (Germany-USSR) & Poland
      • Relationships: Nation to citizens
        • Some key points/ideas:
          • Nativism/Ultra-nationalism
          • Oppression/suppression of rights
          • Categorization/dehumanization
          • Internment
    • Video: “Why Appeasement?”
      • BLOG Post:  comment on quote from video:  “I bless every day that I live, because every day that I live is pure profit.”
    • Video:  “Genocide”
    • Video:  “Savage Christmas”

    Homework/Readings: 

    • Read Global Forces – Chapter 7 for Wednesday, May 26; Chapter 8 for Friday, May 28
    • *other PDF Articles (Moodle) and Videos optional
    • Assignment 2 Continuity vs Change – Now due (week of Monday May 24)

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