History homework help

1. This assorted assignment consists of primary sources – letter from soldiers on the front home and articles discussing soldiers’ everyday lives on the front.

Please choose one or two of the letters from the given link: https://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/ (Links to an external site.) and do a write up, incorporating information from two (of the three articles on soldiers’ intimacy, food, and realities back home: BBC Maganzine – WWI Story.pdf

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and then look up to find relevant information from the period in your textbook (Sherman, and or Paxton). Use the sources (letter, magazine articles, and textbook material to discuss an aspect of soldiers’ everyday life on the front lines.

Your essay is to be three to four paragraphs long, containing some 400 words.

Please cite in-text and also in separate ‘works cited’ section at the end following, utilizing examples given (see Course Information module with details on Originality, Citation, and Format, and MLA).

2. View the YouTube video The Russian Revolution 1917 by Epic History TV (13 min 41 sec):

The Russian Revolution 1917 (Links to an external site.)

Is it easier to understand why there was a revolution in Russia that toppled the tsar then why the Bolsheviks came to power several months later in ta second revolution?

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3. In which ways is Bauhaus a Workshop of Modernity in Europe, and Beyond?

Please research the topic, provide a definition of the term (movement), describe the founders and principal artists from various aspects of the world of art and architecture, and locate museums/galleries that deal with images and artifacts from the period.

Choose two diverse artifacts/structures from two different sources (museums/galleries, from the links below, or your own choice), and present a report in about 500 words, using the general historic questions/answers. Include two images of your artifacts/structures (and sources of those images) in your report.

Start with this video – The Bauhaus Turns 100 (4 min 29 sec): The Bauhaus movement turns 100 | Modern Art | Showcase

Visit the Bauhaus-Dessau Museum: https://www.bauhaus-dessau.de/en/architecture/bauhaus-museum-dessau.html (Links to an external site.)

Check out to see if there is anything in NYC that addresses this period (yes, there is, plenty)!

Please use and cite (in-text citations and have a work cited section) our textbook, the Bauahus-Dessau Museum, and your two different locations (museums/galleries of your choice) that deal with the two artifacts which you will contrast and compare to answer the question of In which ways is Bauhaus a Workshop of Modernity in Europe, and Beyond?

4. Post your 200 word post commenting on the video and the issues raised by SundayMidnight, 11:59pm.

You are encouraged to use your textbook and reputable online resources, but you must give your answers in your own words. Do give reference to your source (book, article, web link), as this is how you will showcase your scholarly research, but don’t copy the content – we will check it out ourselves. And, remember, this is a history course, so always give the date/period for the historical issue you are discussing. Thanks.

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How might one argue that World War II stemmed directly from World War I and the Great Depression?

Please watch the YouTube video “Between WWI and WWII – 1918-1939: The Three Faces of Evil, part 2” (31 min)

Take a look at this video lesson “AP European History: Europe in the 1920s” (8 min 20 sec)

Europe in the 1920s: AP European History

5. Discuss Women in War against Nazism (examples Georgina Landemare and Sophie Scholl, and one you discovered). In which ways is Elizabeth Hawes’s experience the same/different (Doc. 24.2 in Sherman)?

Visit the Imperial War Museum in London https://www.iwm.org.uk/ (Links to an external site.) and specifically the IWM Churchill War Rooms and the sub-link Gerogina Landemare: the Chef who cooked for Winston Churchill: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-chef-who-cooked-for-winston-churchill (Links to an external site.)

and then the National World War II Museum in New Orleans: https://www.nationalww2museum.org (Links to an external site.) and specifically Sophie Scholl and the White Rose https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/sophie-scholl-and-white-rose (Links to an external site.)

Add one more woman (women) based on your research on the topic, from Europe or the USA (tip: there are some in the two museums above). Please use other links from the IWM and NW2M museums as you engage in your discussin, as well as other relevant sources that address the discussion question.

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6. What were the issues of the 1968 student protests in Europe, esp. West Germany?

Watch the excerpts of the DW video on YouTube-1968 Student Protests and the German Nazi PastBerlin's 1968 student protests and Germany's Nazi past | DW English

Look at the DW online resources to further explore the issue, and related content : https://www.dw.com/en/1968-the-year-of-cultural-revolution-in-postwar-germany/a-43643818

(200 WORDS)

7. What does the group of UN Human Rights experts want from Spain? Is Spain adhering to this call today?

Please read the Proposal (see link), and then watch the video link on the broader issue. Incorporate events and actors from the early 1930s to the late 1970s, and then to the most recent years, including the last year.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2018/07/1015522 (Links to an external site.)

40 Years on Franco’s Ghost Still Haunts Spain

https://youtu.be/3zNEe9lTd_c

https://time.com/5684966/spain-exhume-dictator-francisco-franco/ (Links to an external site.) (view the video(s) at top of the article

(200 WORDS)

8. Europe in the 1990s: Disintegration in the South East and Integration in Most of the Rest

Please scroll over the web link, read and watch videos in sub-links:

https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2017/the-making-and-breaking-of-europe/1990s.html#two1990 (Links to an external site.)

and then move on to the following material on the Break up of Yugoslavia (16 min 49 sec):

The Breakup of Yugoslavia

and connect the discussion with the effects of the Ex-Yu on the rest of Europe, and comment on other processes of integration in most of the rest of Europe.

(200 WORDS)

9. For this Assorted Assignment I will ask you to go over the following links and discuss the context of the Demise of the British Empire, and effects of Decolonization on both the British and newly Independent Societies

A) Porter, Bernard. “Cutting the British Empire Down to Size.” History Today, Vol. 62. Issue. 10, Oct. 2012, 22-29.

Cutting the British Empire Down to Size.pdf

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B) Web links

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/5/decolonization-and-the-collapse-of-the-british-empire (Links to an external site.)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/modern/endofempire_overview_01.shtml (Links to an external site.)

C) Your textbook

Your essay is to be four to five paragraphs long, with a short introduction and short conclusion, containing some 600 words in total.

Please cite in-text and also in separate ‘works cited’ section at the end of your paper, utilizing examples for MLA citation (see Course Information module with details on Originality, Citation, and Format, and MLA format).

10. Fall of the Berlin Wall. Explain.

Please go over the following links and discuss the context of the Fall of the Berlin Wall:

A) Use the material “German Unification, 1989-1990” provided by Advanced Placement European History by College Board

https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/series/lesson-plans-european-history/german-reunification-1989-90?course=ap-european-history (Links to an external site.)

Use the outline/sections with objectives, background, main text, discussion questions, and exercise to formulate your narrative answering the general three questions and the overall question

– Why it Happened

– The Fall of the Wall

– Consequences

B) Additional source to be cited and included in the discussion in your paper:

“The Fall of the Wall: What it Meant to be there” by Timothy Garton Ash: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/06/-sp-fall-berlin-wall-what-it-meant-to-be-there (Links to an external site.)

C-SPAN videos, text and various links dealing with the Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall: https://www.c-span.org/video/?289888-1/20th-anniversary-fall-berlin-wall (Links to an external site.)

Your essay is to be six to seven paragraphs, with a short introduction and short conclusion, containing some 700 words in total.