WWII

The following questions require a great deal of time, reading, and research. PLEASE take your time to plan your answers. This planning will help your answers be stronger. Remember to turn your paper in to turnitin.com! This blog is due Sunday, January 5th at 9:00 p.m.

1. How and why was Hitler able to become dictator of Germany?
2. “The First and Second World Wars were European civil wars that required outside intervention to settle.” How far do you agree with this quotation?
3. In what ways did the causes of the Second World War differ from the causes of the First World War?
4. Evaluate the importance of ideology in the policies of Adolf Hitler.
5. Assess the impact of Hitler, and the Second World War on one Scandinavian country.
6. How and why did the Second World War bring about the social and economic changes in one European country excluding Scandinavia?
7. Evaluate Hitler’s social, economic, and religious policies between 1933 and 1939.
8. Compare and contrast the foreign policies up to the outbreak of the Second World War of Mussolini and Hitler.
9. Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the establishment of a Nazi dictatorship in the period 1929 to 1934.
10. In what ways did Facism in Italy and Nazism in Germany differ ideologically?

The Second World War, 1939-1945

A handout for this reading will be distributed in class tomorrow. Please read and answer the following questions:

1. Explain why Germany was successful in the Second World War up to the end of 1941, but suffered ultimate defeat in 1945.
2. "Retreats and defeats marked the first two years of the war for Britain." How far would you agree with this opinion?
3. Explain why you agree or disagree with the view that the Allied victory in the Second World War was secured mainly because of the contribution of the USSR.
4. To what extent was Hitler responsible for and driven by ideological beliefs of Nazism?
5. In what ways, and to what extent, was the Second World War "total war"?

Germany's Last Reparation and Psychoanalysis of Hitler

Per my instructions in class today - please write a 75 word essay on Germany's Last Reparation reading. 75 words only...no more, no less...YOU CAN DO IT! Read the excerpts from the Psychoanalysis of Hitler - fascinating read. It states for you to work in groups to discuss, ignore that since this is a blog, we are not working on this in class. Below you will find question three that was truncated during the photocopying stage - my apologies.

Remember - I am giving you the gift of an extension since you are working on your essays...therefore your blogs are due Monday night at 9:00 p.m. Have fun with these readings - I think they are DYNAMITE!!!!! I always look for QUALITY not quantity...

3) Adolf's sense of good and bad was confused at a young age. No matter what rule he broke, he rarely had to deal with consequences - not from his mother because she didn't punish him since he was her favorite, and not from his father because he was beaten even if he had not broken any rule. Do you agree or disagree with this psychoanalysis and why?