Calendar

CLASS # TOPICS
1 Introduction: Europe before 1914
2 The prospect of war: Buildup to World War I
3

World War I - Part I

  • Trench warfare on the Western Front
  • Attitudes on the home front
  • The war on the Eastern Front
  • The Russian revolution
4

World War I - Part II

  • Social issues in WWI
  • The end of the war
  • The Treaty of Versailles

Reactions and Rebuilding: Europe after the war, before the Great Depression

  • Art
  • German reaction to the end of the war, Treaty of Versailles
  • Eastern Europe
  • France
  • Britain
  • Italy
5

The Great Depression

The rise of the Nazi Party

Spanish Civil War

Appeasement and Rearmament: The run-up to WWII

6

World War II

  • Invasion of Poland
  • Invasion of the Scandanavian countries
  • Invasion of France and the Benelux Countries
  • Battle of Britain
  • Operation Barbarossa: German invasion of Russia
  • America enters the war
7 Nazi occupation
8 The fall of the thousand year Reich