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Trying to Recover From the Great War, 1919–1929

Texts:
  • Modern History Sourcebook: An Age of Anxiety
  • John Maynard Keynes: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
  • The Constitution of the Irish Free State
  • Calvin Coolidge: Inaugural address
  • Paul Valéry: On European Civilization and the European Mind
  • T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land

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    Turning Away From Democracy: Dictatorships and Fascism, 1919–1929

    Text:
  • Miklos Horthy: Annotated Memoirs
  • Benito Mussolini: What is Fascism?

    Images:
  • Benito Mussolini
  • March on Rome 1922
  • Hitler and Mussolini 1936

    Transforming the Soviet Union: 1920–1939

    Texts:
  • Vladimir Illyich Lenin: Excerpts from Lenin's Testament
  • Hymn to Stalin
  • Memorandum on the Grain Problem
  • Josef Stalin: Industrialization of the Country
  • The Soviet Purges- Official Explanation
  • N.I. Bukharin: Last Plea

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    The Great Depression, 1929–1939

    Text:
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: First Inaugural

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    Nazism in Germany

    Text:
  • The 25 Points 1920:  An Early Nazi Program
  • The Horst Wessel Song [Audio]]
  • Bruno Heilig: "Why the German Republic Fell"
  • Adolf Hitler: Order Authorizing Involuntary Euthanasia in Germany
  • Kristallnacht: Modern Account
  • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact

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    The Road to War, 1931–1939

    Texts:
  • League of Nations Covenant
  • The Nanking Massacre
  • George Orwell: Homage to Catalonia
  • Neville Chamberlain: Peace in Our Time

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    World War II, 1939–1945

    Texts:
  • Modern History Sourcebook: Holocaust
     
  • Germany's Invasion of Poland
  • Songs of the German Army- World War II
  • Franco-German Armistice : June 25, 1940
  • Winston S. Churchill, 'Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat' Speech
  • Vyacheslav Molotov: Broadcast Speech on the Invasion of The Soviet Union
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Day Which Will Live in Infamy Speech
  • US Declaration of War on Germany
  • Adolf Hitler: On Antisemitism in Vienna, from Mein Kampf
  • Hermann Friedrich Graebe: Account of Holocaust Mass Shooting
  • Rudolf Hoess, Commandant of Auschwitz: Testimony
  • Gypsies [Roma] in the Holocaust
  • Heinrich Himmler: On Homosexuals
  • Winston S. Churchill, 'We Shall Fight on the Beaches' - Speech to the House of Commons
  • Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau  on the Ideological Mission of the German Army in the Soviet Union, October 1941
  • German Surrender Documents of World War II

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