 |  A History of the Modern World, 9/e R R Palmer,
Yale University
Joel Colton,
Duke University
Lloyd Kramer,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Democracy and Dictatorship
Internet Exercises
Social Security
Use Roosevelt's and a commentator's thoughts in 1935 on social security to define how the issue was understood during the Great Depression.
| Link 1
(http://newdeal.feri.org/speeches/1935b.htm)
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(http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na35261.htm)
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Student Activism in the 1930s
What do the reminiscences of Joseph Lash suggest about the college students of the 1930s?
| Link 1
(http://newdeal.feri.org/students/lash.htm)
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Songs of the Depression
Analyze songs created in migrant work camps during 1940-41 to generate a "history from below" perspective on the Great Depression.
| Link 1
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/toddbib:@field(DOCID(@range(st001+st120))))
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Fascism
How did Mussolini define fascism in opposition to socialism, liberalism and democracy?
| Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html)
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Nazi visual propaganda
Note the content, message, what got emphasized, themes, and visual impact. Who do you think they were they aimed at? Were there any changes from before 1933 to after, when the Nazis came to power?
| Link 1
(http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/posters2.htm)
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Nazi racism
Use texts and images analyze how Nazi racial theory was delivered to ordinary Germans.
| Link 1
(http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/nurmlaw1.html)
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(http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/sturm28.htm)
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Totalitarian art
How do the works appearing on this site suggest how art was used to support the political project of totalitarianism.
| Link 1
(http://www.primenet.com/~byoder/artofnz.htm)
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