Reading Assignments
The table below is designed to help students read along in the text as we cover each topic in the course or get a jump start on the readings before the course begins.
| Date | Topic | Readings | Film |
| June 28, 2004 | Background | Brendon, 1-49 | The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century Part, The War Without End |
| June 29, 2004 | The Great Depression | Brendon, 50-101 | The Great Depression: A Job at Fords |
| June 30, 2004 | The Coming of the Fuhrer | Brendon, 102-125 | Max |
| July 1, 2004 | The First Fascist | Brendon, 126-148 | The 1920s: A Decade of Contradictions |
| July 5, 2004 | No Class | Brendon, 149-202 | |
| July 6, 2004 | Threat in the Far East | Brendon, 203-229 | The 1930s: The Great Depression |
| July 7, 2004 | Stalin and Soviet Russia | Brendon, 230-256 | Joseph Stalin: The Red Terror |
| July 8, 2004 | FDR and the New Deal/The Nazi Revolution | Brendon, 257-280, 281-306 | The American Experience FDR: Fear Itself |
| July 12, 2004 | Fascism on the Move -- Ethiopia and Elsewhere | Brendon, 307-331, 359-385 | Between the Wars: The Italian-Ethiopian War / Cambridge Spies |
| July 13, 2004 | The Crimes of Stalin | Brendon, 465-493 | Yanks for Stalin |
| July 14, 2004 | Japanese Militarism | Brendon, 438-464 | The World at War: Banzai! - Japan 1932-1942 |
| July 15, 2004 | American Isolationism | Brendon, 494-520 | The World at War: On Our Way - U.S.A 1932-1942 / Dear, I'll Be Back In A Year |