Hist 335 Schedule

Tooley Fall 2021
History 335, Europe Since 1939 Schedule

(Please read the listings for a given day BY that day.)

Aug 24--Introduction. World War I, the Individual, and the State

Aug 26--Stalin, Hitler, and Others
Readings:
Wikipedia on Stalin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin
(please read the Intro and the continuous sections from "Dekulakisation, collectivization..." through the first two paragraphs of the section "Pact with Nazi Germany..."

Wikipedia on Hitler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler
(please read the Intro and then the main heading "Nazi Germany" down to (and not including)

Interview of Stalin biographer Stephen Kotkin. About 50 min. Please listen to this very carefully.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhi2icRXbHo

   Aug 31--Approaching World War II.
Read
Wikipedia: Mukden Incident
Wikipedia: The Spanish Civil War
Non-Aggression Pact document

Sep 2--Overview of World War II.
        Read this section from Felix Gilbert's excellent textbook, updated by David Clay Large (it may take a couple of minutes to load)
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/history/htooley/EndEuropeanEra.pdf.   33 pp.

Also look over
Time Magazine Color photos of the Polish Invasion
and read all of
Reynolds, "1940: Fulcrum of the Twentieth Century?" (JSTOR)

Sep 7--A Short Military History of the European War.

Historian Richard Overy on "How The Allies Won."
US National Archives Katyn Forest Massacre Records
Soviet Orders regarding Polish Prisoners
From the superb 1973 BBC documentary The World At War: this is the segment on the German/Soviet war:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McGLlw-nH3I&list=PLqjeWiIKuqxEeu0NKCtETJ605r4JD-8Sd&index=8
(Important--special discussion of the paper assignments during this class.)

Sep 9--Some Costs of War and Considerations on Hitler
Tooley, "The Human Costs of the Matchstick Solution: The Dynamics of Changing Borders and Ethnic Cleansing in Poland, 1945,"
and
Beck, "The Allied Bombing of Germany..." (JSTOR)

    Sep 14--The Final Solution. Browning, "The Nazi Decision to Commit Mass Murder" (JSTOR).
also read: the story of Victor Lewis, a boy who survived the Holocaust
Also, read this Introduction to euthanasia in the Third Reich

Sep 16—World War II from Within.
Wikipedia: The German Occupation of France
       http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/dday2.htm
        Wikipedia: D-Day
       Wikipedia: The Battle of the Bulge

Sep 21--The End. An article about historian Antony Beevor
and
this World At War special collection of interviews on Hitler's bunker. Just the first 19 minutes is plenty. It veers into the ID of Hitler's body by the Russians. Interesting, but a bit pointless for our purposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuQAuGO9bnc
and
article on A Woman in Berlin
Bernstein article on Truman's Decision to use the A-Bomb
Wikipedia on the Repatriation of Cossacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Cossacks_after_World_War_II

Sep 23--Eastern Europe at War's End: eyewitness accounts of the war's end. (from Vardy and Tooley, Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth Century Europe [2003])
Karl Hausner
Hermine Hausner
Erich Helfert
Martha Kent

Sep 28--Aftermath. Richard Wiggers article on German food conditions
On the Epuration/Purges in France from 1944 to 1948 or so, read this good piece by Anthony Beevor:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/05/women-victims-d-day-landings-second-world-war
And while we are at it, a video of a discussion/talk by Sir Anthony Beevor on some big themes of World War II (only 19 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkst53ZM_tU

Sep 30--Review Day

Oct 5--EXAM

Oct 7--Post exam discussion

Oct 12--Occupation

This documentary from the 1960s is a bit dated and a little melodramatic, but it gives good info and a useful narrative. Under 25 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvwRGKHzsrw
The Marshall Plan http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=82
and Wikipedia: Berlin Blockade
Jeffrey Tucker: "The Marshall Plan Myth"
https://mises.org/library/marshall-plan-myth

Oct 14--Spies, Bombs, Bankers, Bases.
The Cold War
Wikipedia: Cold War

Paper #1 is Due on Friday, October 15th, at 5pm via Turnitin

Oct 26--Western Europe: Politics and Economics, 1945-1970--Western Europe Politics.
    Wikipedia: Konrad Adenauer
Wikipedia: Clement Atlee
Wikipedia: Alcide de Gasperi

Richard Davis, "The 'Problem of de Gaulle': British Reactions to General de Gaulle's Veto of the UK
Application to Join the Common Market," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct., 1997), pp. 453-464

Oct 28--Soviet Europe
Wikipedia on the Warsaw Pact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_pact
    (Important: among other things this day, heads up and tips for the research paper)d
Litvinov to Stalin, May 1946
    National Security Agency: VENONA (Please browse this site heavily)
Kitchen Debate   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7HqOrAakco
JFK Library info on Wall speech http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-Cold-War-in-Berlin.aspx
Kennedy Wall speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gdH6XXJ2MU&feature=related

Nov 9--"Tear Down This Wall!": Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev
Wikipedia on the Wall speech: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tear_down_this_wall!
Reagan at the Wall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8
Peter Robinson's account of how he wrote the speech, etc.
http://www.historynet.com/president-ronald-reagan-inside-story-of-reagans-berlin-challenge-to-tear-down-this-wall.htm
Not all the same: 1991 in Lithuania:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2SvhDY23So
Atlantic article on the declassification of documents on "Autumn Forge," a close call in the Cold War.
and
National Security Archive on the 1983 War Scare
On this one, please work through it thoroughly--the video, as many documents as you can read, etc.

Nov 11--Velvet Revolutions and Others: Spotlight on Romania
Ceausescu part one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5gVsYNGycc&feature=related
part two
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WD2e_-ek194&feature=relmfu
The Romanian Revolution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEqS7lz0O9A&feature=related
The trial of the Ceausescus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pk2rxHTrsQ

Nov 16--The Fall of the Eastern Bloc Regimes and the Aftermath(s)

Nov 18--Peace Dividend That Never Was: The Nineties, Civilization Clash, and the Revival of Russia
Huntington's new clash http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clash_of_Civilizations
The NATO bombing of Serbia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_NATO_bombing_of_Yugoslavia

Paper #3 is Due on Thursday, Nov 21, at 5pm via Turnitin

THANKSGIVING BREAK

Nov 30--Economics: Inflation, Agriculture, Intervention, Immigration: 1991 to present.
read Hoppe article

Dec 2--The New Europe of Identities: Serbia, Brexit, Catalonia, and Other Matters
Wikipedia on Angela Merkel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Merkel