So... what we have learned this year? Hundreds and hundreds of pages of reading. Hundreds more of notes, dozens of hours of notes and projects. Essays and projects, rubrics and IC. But, really, what have we learned and...
Why should we care?
Listen to each other explain how today's events and even crises and conflicts are due in large measure to the conditions created by historical events we have been studying since August.
Let's care about this stuff: because this is YOUR world and it is more connected than in any other age because international events now travel to your screen at essentially the speed of light. Listen, learn, and respect it because you own it in your own little way.
How did Italian Fascism and German Nazism lead to catastrophic policies and racist and anti-Semitic laws and actions that culminated at least in some cases, in genocide (Nazism)?
How did interwar Europe cultivate new political systems and cultural movements?
How did the concept of self-determination, as interepreted by President Wilson and the drafters of the Treaty of Versailles, influence nationalistic tendencies outside of Europe?
Why was the Great War the first significant case of modern industrial warfare and how did it introduce the concept of "total war"?
What are the precise underlying and immediate causes of the The Great War?
How did visual culture develop a "Modernist" sensibility during 19th-century Europe? How did various artistic and architectural movements reflect and even provoke or promote the "ism's" consuming broader European culture?
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