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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?
*200-word
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.

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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 postcommenting 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)
Between WWI and WWII | 1918 1939 | The Three Faces of Evil
| Army in Action | part 2 | Doc
Take a look at this video lesson "AP European History: Europe

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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.
(200 WORDS)
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

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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_over
view_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

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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.
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).