Rudolf Schlichter, Hindenburg Bath 2 (1924)
"Victory or Bolshevism" (1944/45)
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Rudolf Schlichter, Hindenburg Bath 2 (1924) |
"Victory or Bolshevism" (1944/45) |
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Final
Review Sheet
HIEU 137
War and Society: The First and Second World Wars
Instructors: Wendy
Maxon, Ph.D. and Doug McGetchin,
Ph.D.
Time: Mon/Wed 2-4:50 PM
Location: Warren Lecture Hall 2205
Office: HSS 4063, (858) 534-8918
Office Hours: Thursday 2:30-4:30 PM
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Course Description
This course explores the social, cultural, economic, and military experiences of World War I and World War II, emphasizing the parallels and discontinuities between these highly destructive conflicts. Topics include ideology, propaganda, costs of warfare, the home front, and reconstructing the memory of war.
Course Requirements
You must complete all of the following three assignments to pass the course.
1. (30%) Midterm, Monday, July 15, 2:00 - 3:20 PM
2. (30%) Short Analytical Paper (printed copy due in lecture Wednesday, July 24; electronic version due to the turnitin.com web site by 2 PM Thursday, July 25). In 3-4 typed double-spaced pages (approximately 750-1000 words), pick either A or B below.
A. Give an historical analysis of any of the primary sources in the reader (a document, letter, or other "text" created during 1914-1945; a secondary source is a text created later, usually by scholars analyzing the event). Consider its origin, why was it written, and what it tells us about the period. OR
B. Write a critique of a film shown
in the course or of your own choosing (pending professor's approval). The
film should deal extensively with issues covered in the course. How
does the film 'reconstruct' war and cast it in a particular light?
What issues does each film focus on, and why? What message of the
war does it present? Is the film concerned with particular accuracies,
or does it 'fudge' details to make a point? Draw connections between
the film and course themes.
For help in writing a critique, see
the following “How to Read a Film” websites:
http://www.bothell.washington.edu/faculty/mgoldberg/students/readafilm.htm
http://web.uvic.ca/german/439/seq.html
As part of the assignment, you are required to submit your paper electronically to the turnitin.com web site. See the last page of this syllabus for detailed instructions on how to do this.
3. (40%) Final Friday, August 2, 2:00
- 4:50 PM,
Final
Review Sheet
Course Readings
Books are available at Groundworks Books at the first UCSD student center and at UCSD SSH Library Reserves.
1. Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Men at War 1914-1918:
National Sentiment and Trench
Journalism in France during the First
World War (Providence: Berg, 1992).
NOTE: Because
we found out belatedly that this book is out of print, only Chapters 4
and 5 [pp. 92-154] are required. It is available at Library Reserves.
2. Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (New York: Norton,
1995).
3. Course
Reader is available at University Readers (800-200-3908; [email protected])
Course Films
We will be showing portions of the following films in class. "(FLVL)" means the film is available at the UCSD Film and Video Library in the Geisel Library. "(P)" means the film is a primary source, that is, created during the period our course covers.
WWI:
"All Quiet On the Western Front" (FLVL) (P)
WWII:
"Why We Fight" (FLVL) (P)
"Stalingrad" (FLVL)
"Saving Private Ryan" (FLVL)
"Germany Pale Mother" (FLVL)
The following films we will not show in class, but we recommend them.
WWI:
"Gallipoli" (FLVL)
"Regeneration" (aka "Behind the Lines")
WWII:
"Das Boot" (FLVL)
"The Thin Red Line" (FLVL)
"Tora! Tora! Tora!" (FLVL)
"The Big Red One" (FLVL)
"Battleground" (FLVL) (P)
"Let There Be Light" (FLVL) (P)
Calendar and Assignments
[W = Wendy Maxon's lecture; D = Doug McGetchin's lecture;
W/D = collaborated]
Week One: Beginning World War I
July 1 (Monday)
1. Introduction: Constructing Memories of War [W/D]
Reader 1-4: Ferguson, xxv-xxvi.
2. Origins of the First World War [W]
Reader 5-22: Kennedy; Hobson.
July 3 (Wednesday)
3. Battles
1914-1916: the Marne to the Somme [D]
Reader 23-25: Ferguson, 174-179.
4. Troglodytes
in the Trenches [W]
Audoin-Rouzeau, Chapters
2 and 3 [36-91].
Reader 26-51: Remarque; Owen; Heller.
Film: "All Quiet On the Western Front"
Week Two: Ending World War I
July 8 (Monday)
5. Patriotism,
Propaganda and Ideology [W]
Audoin-Rouzeau, Chapter
6 [155-184].
6. The
War Economy and Home Front [W]
Audoin-Rouzeau, Chapters 4 and 5 [92-154].
Reader 52-64: Davis.
July 10 (Wednesday)
7. Desperate
Measures, 1917-1918: Resistance, Revolution, and New Tactics [D]
Reader 65-93: Hart; Lupfer; Luxemburg; Kollontai; Lenin.
8. An
Uneasy Peace: The Treaty of Versailles [W/D]
Reader 94-106: The 'Fourteen Points'; Versailles;
Huxley.
Week Three: Germany Rises Again: The Early Years of World War II
July 15 (Monday)
Midterm
9. The
Rise of Fascism 1920-1933 [W]
Reader 107-124: Jünger, “My Last Storm”; Jünger
"Fire"; Himmler.
July 17 (Wednesday)
10. Origins
of World War Two: Why Go to War Again? [W]
Reader 125-140: Kennedy, 303-333; "The Hossbach Memorandum"
11. Blitzkrieg
1939-1941 [D]
Overy, Chapter 1 and part of Chapter 2 [1-32].
Reader 141-145: Bloch
Week Four: Turning the Tide in World War II
July 22 (Monday)
12. Barbarossa
and the War in the East [D]
Overy, most of Chapter 3 [63-85, 98-100].
Reader 146-165: Guderian; "Commissar Order"; Fuchs
Richardson; Bartov.
13. The
Landser, Ivan, and the G.I.: Combat in WW2 [W]
Overy, Chapter 9 [282-313].
Reader 166-179: Niell; Mauldin.
Film: "Stalingrad"
July 24 (Wednesday)
Due: Short Analytical Paper
14. Western
Bombing Campaign and D-Day Invasion [D]
Overy, part of Chapter 4 [101-103, 117-133].
Film: "Saving Private Ryan"
15. Technology
of War [D]
Overy, Chapter 7 [208-244].
Week Five: Ending World War II and Aftermath
July 29 (Monday)
16. Patriotism,
Propaganda and Ideology [W]
Reader 179-202: Hitler; Kershaw; Heck.
Film: “Why We Fight”
17. War
economy, home front [D]
Overy, Chapter 6 [180-207]
Reader 203-213: “Democracy?”; Ohly; Sax and Kuntz, 280-285;
Speer.
Film: "Germany Pale Mother"
July 31 (Wednesday)
18. Holocaust,
Resistance, Collapse of the Reich [D]
Reader 214-228: "Commandant of Auschwitz"; Browning;
Weinberg.
19. Aftermath:
Mastering the Past? The significance of the Two World Wars [W/D]
Overy, Chapter 10 [314-330].
Reader 229-246: Young; Zinn.
August 2 (Friday)
Final 2-4:50 PM, Warren
Lecture Hall 2205 Changed to CSB 005.
See Final Review
Sheet.
Academic Integrity
It is your responsibility to know and observe all the UCSD rules concerning academic integrity and plagiarism.You should familiarize yourself with your responsibilities and rights under the UCSD Student Conduct Code (http://ugr8.ucsd.edu/judicial/22_00.html); see especially section 22.21. Any student found to have committed a substantial violation of the university rules concerning academic integrity will fail the entire course. We view one of our chief responsibilities to help you produce first-rate academic work that reflects your own original thinking about the course themes and material. If you have any questions whatsoever about what constitutes plagiarism, how to properly credit the work and ideas of others, how to evaluate sources for quality and reliability, and so forth, please feel free to see either instructor to discuss the matter. Students agree that by taking this course the required paper will be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the terms of use agreement posted on the Turnitin.com site.
Instructions for submitting paper to Turnitin.com
The final version of your paper is due at the beginning of lecture on Wednesday July 24. Please disregard anything the turnitin.com site says about the due date of the paper; it is due when the syllabus says it is due. Within 24 hours of the time the paper is due (i.e. by 2 PM on Thursday, July 25), you must also submit the paper on-line to turnitin.com, as described below. You must submit an exact electronic copy of the paper you turn in at lecture. If you miss the electronic filing deadline, you will lose one-third of a letter grade for each day your submission is late. If for some reason you are unable to file online and believe an extension is justified, please contact Prof. McGetchin immediately (email is best). Extensions will only be granted for good cause, and only if you have made timely attempts to contact the instructor. If you have any questions about how to use the turnitin.com system, please contact him.
1. Go to www.turnitin.com on the internet; click on "user
login."
2. Check the box for "student" under "user type."
3. Fill in your e-mail address and turnitin.com password.
If you are a new user of the system, follow the instructions for new users,
using the "click here to get started" link. If you've forgotten your password,
click that link to have it sent to you, then follow the instructions given
in order to get back to this page of the web site.
4. This will take you to the "your classes" screen. Click
"join new class."
5. For "Class ID," enter 34960; for the enrollment password,
enter 451678, which is the class Section Number. Click "submit." (If you
are not on the page with classes for 2002, use the pull-down menu and the
"GO" button to view 2002 classes.)
6. Click on the blue part of the link with the section
number and the UCSD ID number of the class to select the class listed.
7. You will now be on your "Class Portfolio Page." Click
on the "assignments" button near the top of the page. This should take
you to an "assignment page" that lists "Paper" as the assignment to be
submitted. (Disregard the system's warning that the paper is overdue; it
is only overdue if you have missed the deadline.)
8. Type in the title of your paper in the box indicated.
9. Use the pull-down menu to select the assignment number
(1 -- Paper).
10. Copy and paste the body of your work into the box
labeled "main text." Do not post anything in the "Abstract" box, and do
not post your Bibliography in the "Bibliography" box.
11. Click "submit"; be sure to print or save the receipt
page (it will be e-mailed to you as well); log out at the top of the page.