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................January and February 2012



CLASSES


Monday I
Wednesday VI
Friday VI




Next year's source-based question will be on the post-war settlement: study it here.

Those studying for IGSCE in May should have mastered pp. 94-121 over the Easter holiday.
There will be a webpage for you here soon.








Last term's materials are here;
and here is the syllabus.




SCHEDULE

We finish our study of Weimar and Nazi Germany before half-term.

Monday, 23 January How doomed was Germany in 1935?

homework Complete compiling your summary notes (see the exercise below) as far as Streseman. Make sure you are confident about everything in Modern World History from page 220 to page 265.

Wednesday, 25 January The collapse of European order. See the hand-out.

homework finish hand-out on the Anschluss, and read MWH to the bottom of page 266.

Friday, 27 January The Anschluss.

homework read MWH to the bottom of page 268.

Monday, 30 January The Munich Crisis

homework master the review article in MWH, page 269.

Wednesday, 1 February Poland, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, war. Complete compiling your summary notes on Appeasement, Occupation of the Rhineland, Anschluss, Munich, Poland, the Soviet Pact.

homework master the review articles in MWH, pages 238 and 248.

Friday, 3 February Germany in the years of victory.
Inside Nazi Germany (1938), II. These are the excellent monthly maps of the American General Staff, plotting the progress of the war.

homework Complete compiling your summary notes on Germany at war.
.........The turning point of the war came with El Alamein (November 1942) and Stalingrad (February 1943). Thereafter Germany was crushed. Here are some films about the slow defeat:
The Desert Rats (953)
Tobruk (2008)
Stalingrad (1993)
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Cross of Iron (1977)
Downfall (2005)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Nuremberg (2000)

Monday, 6 February Germany in the years of rubble. Fall and surrender; a final reckoning.

homework prepare for the exam.

Wednesday, 8 February no class: Presheren Day

Friday, 10 February class exam on Germany. POSTPONED

homework review your notes on Weimar and Nazi Germany.

Monday, 13 February no class: midterm break
Wednesday, 15 February no class: midterm break
Friday, 17 February no class: midterm break

Friday, 24 February class exam on Germany:
Section A will be 25 factual questions
Section B is here.







SUMMARY NOTES, 23i12

Using the green textbook, you wrote five- or six-point summaries of the Weimar and Nazi German history we have studied to date.



The example I gave was a summary of THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES
== ended the First World War
== signed at Versailles, just outside Paris, in June 1919
== negotiated by the Allies (America, Britain, France, Italy); German delegates forced to sign
== Germany admitted responsibility for the war
== Germany had to pay massive reparations
== Germany lost territory to France, Denmark and Poland, and all her colonies

You sent me these notes:
Loreta and Karianne,
Ana Z, Clare, Jay,
Tinkara,
Jack,
Ana R, Nejc, Mitja, Tine, David, Vid & Fatmir.

Allied bombing raids.

They are very fine, are adequate to stir up your historical memory, and will allow you to face any exam!

We still have these topics to cover:
APPEASEMENT
THE RHINELAND
ANSCHLUSS
MUNICH
POLAND
THE SOVIET PACT
NAZI GERMANY AT WAR






EXAM TIMETABLE

Details of the exam timetable are here
morning of 10 May 2012: Paper 1: 2 hours: choice of 2 questions on the core content
.........and 1 question (choice of 2) on the dep th study (Germany 1918-1945)
morning of 18 May 2012: Paper 2: 2 hours: source-based question; no choice
morning of 23 May 2012: Alternative to coursework: 1 hour

A checklist of topics to study.






CONTACTING ME

Here is a typical Weimar German disaster:
the destruction of the Hindenburg in 1935.
To email me, click on the flames.
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