Course Schedule
* Lecture outlines are in Word format

Week One - The End of the Summer

Monday, Janurary 25

Introductions, a look at the syllabus, why study European history?

Wednesday, January 27

A brief look at Europe up to 1890.

Friday, January 29

What is modern? What is national?

Maps for the class are at http://www.ieg-maps.uni-mainz.de/

Week Two - Imperialism, Nationalism and War

Monday, February 1

Communism, Social Democracy and Trade Unions

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters One and Two

Outline Two

Slides and maps for Week Two

Wednesday, February 3

CLASS CANCELLED – Due to an important appointment

Also read: Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden”

Rudyard Kipling's "The White Man's Burden"

Assignment and study notes for Heart of a Dog

Week Three - The Great War and Versailles

Monday, February 8

The origins of the Great War

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters Three and Four

Outline Three

Slides and maps for Week Three

Excerpt from Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/classes/coreclasses/hss3/e_junger.html

Wednesday, February 10 The Great War in Europe

Excerpt from Ernst Jünger’s Storm of Steel

http://www.cooper.edu/humanities/classes/coreclasses/hss3/e_junger.html

Friday, February 12

Week Four - The Russian Revolution

Monday, February 15

NO CLASS – PRESIDENT’S DAY

Assignment and study notes for Ordinary Men

Wednesday, February 17

The Versailles Treaty and the shape of Europe

Outline for Week Four

Slides for Week Four

Friday, February 19

Lenin and the Russian Revolution. Stalin’s Russia, purges and famines

Week Five - Revolution and Radical Europe

Monday, February 22

SPLIT SECTIONS - Mikhail Bulgakov - Heart of a Dog

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Five

Read Heart of a Dog (all)

Wednesday, February 24

Culture and Crisis in Europe, the arrival of America, post-Versailles Europe

Outline for Week Five

Friday, February 26

Economic collapse and crisis

Week Six - Rise of the Right

Monday, March 1

Mussolini’s Italy and the Spanish Civil War

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Six

Outline for Week Six

Wednesday, March 3

Hitler and the rise of Nazism

Friday, March 5

The Nazi state

Week Seven - The Road to War

Monday, March 8

Munich, Poland, and the origins of World War II

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Seven

Outline for Week Seven

Wednesday, March 10 Movie: Conspiracy

Also: Read the transcript of the Wannsee Conference at:

http://www.ghwk.de/engl/Prot-engl.pdf

Friday, March 12 Conclude and discuss the movie

Week Eight - Total War and Genocide

Monday, March 15

The Holocaust

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Eight

Outline for Week Eight

Wednesday, March 17

SPLIT SECTIONS Christopher Browning – Ordinary Men

Friday, March 19

The war in Europe to Stalingrad

Week Nine -The Iron Curtain and Cold War

Monday, March 22

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

Wednesday, March 24

The defeat of Nazi Germany

Readings:

Gilbert and Large - Chapter Nine

Friday, March 26

Week Eleven -The End of Empire and the Birth of a Common Europe

Monday, April 5

Yalta, Potsdam, and the origins of the Cold War

Outline for Week Eleven

Wednesday, April 7

The end of Europe’s imperial ambitions: Algeria, Vietnam, Kenya, and Suez

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter Ten

A good map of decolonization is here at CUNY.

Charles de Gaulle, "Europe and Its Role In World Affairs" http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1964-degaulle-europe1.html

Friday, April 9

No Class

Week Twelve -Economic Miracle and Planned Stagnation

Monday, April 12

The creation of the European Union

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 11

Wednesday, April 14

SPLIT SECTIONS Camus – The Stranger

Friday, April 16

The Wirtschaftswunder, consumerism and the welfare state, the Berlin Wall and Soviet Europe

Week Thirteen - Behind the Iron Curtain

Monday, April 19

Terror and democracy in Europe, Thatcher, Kohl and conservatism

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapters 12 and 14

Outline for Week Thirteen - INCLUDES FINAL EXAM INFORMATION

Wednesday, April 21

Solidarity and the Second Cold War

Friday, April 23

The collapse of Communism in Eastern and Central Europe

Week Fourteen -Thaw, then the Flood

Monday, April 26

Movie: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 15

Outline for Week Fourteen

Wednesday, April 28

Conclude and discuss the movie

Friday, April 30

Integration and the rise of the European Union – The rise of the post-national

Week Fifteen - Europe as a Common Home

Monday, May 3

SPLIT SECTIONS Ash, The Magic Lantern

Readings: Gilbert and Large - Chapter 16

Wednesday, May 5

Yugoslavia and the return of genocidal nationalism – the revitalization of Russia and future challenges

Friday, May 7

Class left open in case we fall behind

Final Examination will be held during the Critique and Evaluation Period