Road to War

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/munich1.htm

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1939pact.html

Read these two treaties made by the Nazis with, respectively, the Western European powers and the Soviet Union. In what ways are these pacts similar to those signed before World War I? How are they different? What do the European powers seem to have learned about international diplomacy since the World War I experience?

Churchill

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111chur.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/churchill-blood.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1940churchill-finest.html

Read these excerpts from three of Churchill's most famous speeches. What are the themes that recur in these texts? Are they simply inspirational messages or do they convey any of the substantive issues of the conflict?

How does the substance of these speeches compare to FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech (http://www.libertynet.org/edcivic/fdr.html) What, if anything, can we learn about British and American society of this era from these documents?

Holocaust

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-wannsee.htmWhat was "The Final Solution"? What was the Nazis' goal in undertaking this process? Why did they want to do achieve such a goal? How did they intend to carry it out? As historians, what can we learn from such a shocking and upsetting document

Genocide

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1942graebe.html

Summarize Hermann Freidrich Graebe's account of the mass execution of Jews in the Ukraine. What does his account tell us about the Holocaust?
Compare Graebe's account with the Catholic priest François Ponchaud's description of the Khmer Rouge regime. How were the Khmer Rouge similar to the Nazis? How did they differ?