History Courses For Dr. Christopher C. Lovett
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History Courses For Dr. Christopher C. Lovett |
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Updated as of 2 October 05 Today in History: On October 2, 1780, Major John André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was executed on this day in history. Quote of the Day: "In my view we are much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys." A senior figure at a military-sponsored think tank as told to James Fallows in "Bush's Lost Year" in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 2004) Take the Ann Coulter Quiz Where are you politically? Take the Neocon Quiz and find out. "History is Far too Important to be left to History Professors" Teaching isn't such a novel idea
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History of Disease Contemporary Terrorist Organizations Map of Islamic Terrorist Cells in the U.S.A.
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Final Examination MAIN ESSAY: Do one of the following essay questions. Use essay form in your response and provide the necessary analysis and evidence as required. Your response should be no less than five typed, double-spaced pages. If you use outside sources, your paper should be properly annotated, including a notes and bibliographical component. All responses will be due during Final Week and none will be accepted after 4:00 p.m. on Friday, December 19, 2008. 1. What was Kristallnacht? Why did this pogrom occur? What impact did it have on German Jewry? 2. What was the T4 Program? What was the Nazi plan for those inviduals the Nazis considered "lives not worth living?" How did the T4 program aid the Germans in implementing the Final Solution? 3. How did the United States and the Western Democracies respond to the persecution of German Jewry? 4. How did the Nazis manage their terror? What procedures did they adopt to persecute Jews in the years before 1938? What goals did the Nazi leadership, including the SS have to resolve what they euphemistically called the “Judenfrage”? Explain 5. What were the Nuremberg Laws and what did they mean for German Jews? What restrictions did the state place upon the Jewish community? 6. How did the Roman Catholic Church respond to the Nazi persecution of the Jews? Did the Church speak up? If not, why? Explain. 7. Raul Hilberg developed a concept called the "Destruction Process" to explain the Holocaust. During the period of 1934-38, how did it work? Explain. 8. What was the Final Solution? How did it come about and what did the Nazi leadership plan to resolve the Jewish Question? How was it to operate? Who was involved? 9. Many Germans contended following World War II that they did know what was happening to their Jewish fellow citizens and they were not Nazis. How can you explain their reaction? How could “ordinary men,” many who were non-Nazis, commit such horrific crimes? Who was responsible? What does the German experience say to the rest of humankind? Explain. 10. What did the Allies know about the Holocaust and when did they know it? Why did the Allies refuse to act? What accounted for their general level of inaction? Was it possible for the Americans to actually bomb Auschwitz? Explain. 11. Many survivors of the Holocaust referred to Auschwitz as “anus mundi.” How were the camps organized? What was the likelihood for prisoners actually escaping or actively resisting in the camps or the ghettos in the East? How does your perception of the camps fit with the vision portrayed by Elie Wiesel and Primo Levi? 12. Many blame Germans and Germans alone for the Holocaust, but were their others that would fit within the general framework of “Hilter’s willing executors”? What happened in the Jewish community of Jedwabne? Who was responsible for the murder of the Jews there? How would you assess Jan Gross’s Neighbors? 13. Who were the Righteous Gentiles? What sort of person would risk his or her life to rescue those persecuted by the Nazis? What did it take, and what considerations had to be made, in order to become an altruistic volunteer for humanity? Explain. 14. Remembrance is a key element in Holocaust studies; however, how does art and literature achieve that goal? How do artists relive the horrors of those terrible years? What message do they convey to viewers? How effective is art in recounting the pain and suffering for generations far removed from Hitler's war against European Jewry?
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