History 233 Contemporary European History (1919-Present)

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Lab Assignments

Course Texts

James Wilkinson and H. Stuart Hughes, Contemporary Europe: A History , Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998.

Leslie Derfler, editor. An Age of Conflict: Readings in Twentieth-Century European History, Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997 .

Internet Modern History Sourcebook by Paul Halsall (Fordham University)

Video

  • People's Century (PBS)

    Maps

  • Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century

    World War I

  • The World War I Document Archive
  • Trenches on the Web
  • Mississippi State U History Archives
  • GCSE Study Guide for First World War
  • Isaac Rosenberg's "Break of the Day in the Trenches"
  • Treaty of Versailles (maps & images)
  • League of NationsArticles from the Atlantic Monthly

    Soviet Union

  • Soviet Archives Exhibit

    Inter-War Period

  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot (Columbia University)
  • Paul Valéry: On European Civilization and the European Mind, c. 1919, 1922 (Modern Source Book)
  • Documents of the Interwar Period (Mt. Holyoke)
  • The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Historical Text Archive)
  • World War II Timeline - 1918-38
  • IGCSE History - Inter-War Period 1919 - 1939

    Totalitarianism & World War II

  • World War II Resources on the Internet
  • Yahoo Index: World War II
  • World War II documents
  • World War II, the Traditional Family,and Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • World War II Archive
  • D-Day and World War II Sites
  • Weimar Republic Page

    Nazis

  • Frontline: Nazi Gold (PBS)
  • German Propaganda Archive (Calvin College)
  • Leni Riefenstahl: Triumph of the Will (1934)
  • Berlin Olympics 1936
  • Hitler Speech (Hanover)
  • Wannsee Protocol (Cybrary of the Holocaust)
  • Wannsee Protocol (Hanover)

    Holocaust

  • NewsHour Online: Interview with Prof. Daniel Goldhagen
  • FILM: Memory of the Camps
  • THE HOLOCAUST: AN HISTORICAL SUMMARY
  • Responses to the Holocaust
  • L'Chaim: A Holocaust Web Project
  • The Holocaust(U Mass Dartmouth)
  • Literature of the Holocaust (English 293) (University of Pennsylvania)
  • An Underground Factory in the Czech Republic
  • Holocaust documents
  • A Brief Introduction to the Holocaust

    War in Asia

  • December 8, 1941 - The Fall of Singapore
  • Japanese War Crimes

    War Crimes

  • Nuremberg Trials (Yale)
  • Nuremberg Trials (Court TV)

    Cold War

  • Cold War International History Project
  • Cold War Policies 1945-1991 (University of San Diego)
  • "CONFLICT SEEMS VAGUELY UN-AMERICAN": TEACHING THE CONFLICTS AND THE LEGACY OF COLD WAR by Alan Filreis
  • The Diefenbunker - Canada's Cold War Museum
  • Berlin Airlift Veterans Association
  • USAFE Berlin Airlift Site
    Documents
  • Winston Churchill "Iron Curtain Speech" (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Stalin's Response to Churchill (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Truman Doctrine (Modern Sourcebook)
  • NATO Treaty (Yale)

    European Union

  • Europa: Official Web Site of the European Commission
  • On the Record: Official Documents from the Union
  • EuroInternet Index
  • Eurodocs (Europe as a Supernational Region)

    European Union and the British General Election 1997

  • Conservative Party Manifesto on Europe
  • Labour Party Manifesto on Europe
  • Referendum Party

    Expansion of NATO

  • NATO Official Home Page
  • The Worst Geopolitical Idea Since the Treaty of Versailles An Interview with Janet Bloomfield
  • American OpinionThe Pew Research Center
  • NATO Expansion: A Bridge to the Nineteenth CenturyMichael Mandelbaum
  • NATO EXPANSION and ALTERNATIVE FUTURE SECURITY ALIGNMENTSJames W. Morrison (Inst. for National Strategic Studies)
  • NATO - What For? Collection of links and articles
  • Madrid NATO Summit July 1997 US Embassy
  • YAHOO NATO Links

    The Former Soviet Union

  • Russia: Soviet Remnants by Alexander Motyl
  • Library of Congress Soviet Archives Exhibit
  • Maximov Guide to the Russian Federation
  • Russia on the Web
  • Constitution of the Former Soviet Union
  • Constitution of the Russian Federation 1994
  • Officials of the Russian Federation

    Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

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  • Time Magazine Man of the Decade
  • Mikhail Gorbachev's Home Page
  • Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Winner of 1990 Nobel Prize in Peace
  • Biography of Russian News Service
  • Gorbachev: villan for whom? (The Economist)
  • Memoirs by Mikhail Gorbachev

    The Balkan Crisis

  • A Beginner's Guide to the Balkans (ABC News)
  • Kosovo Crisis (Central Europe Online)
  • The Kosovo Crisis (BBC)
  • Yugoslavia & the Balkans (BBC)
  • Balkans (Washington Post)
  • Beginner's guide to the Balkans (Salon)
  • Links on Southeastern Europe

    General Web References

  • AP European History
  • Directories of Historical Resources
  • The McKinley Internet Directory
  • Yahoo History List
  • Tennessee Tech History Home Page
  • Electronic Documents
  • The Historical Text Archive
  • The HUMBUL Gateway
  • The Institute of Historical Research (University of London)
  • Oxford Humanities Computing
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