HIST 312 - Europe, 1914-1945: The Age of Dictators and Imperiled Democracies

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, 3cr of college history
Surveys the principal themes in the transformation of Europe from 1914 to 1945. Topics include World War I and the Paris Peace settlement; developments in conservatism, liberalism, and socialism; colonial empires; the emergence of communism, fascism, and Nazism; artistic, musical, and literary movements between the two World Wars; the Great Depression and responses to it; anti-Semitism and the Shoah; the Spanish Civil War, appeasement, and World War II; and the seeds of decolonization and the Cold War.