SCHEDULE OF TOPICS
Introduction and Overview.
The Cultural Transformation of the Fin De Siècle. I
P: 23-68; Sta: 45-56.
The Cultural Transformation of the Fin De Siècle. II
P: 23-68; DG 5-21; Sta 45-56.
World War I.
P: 71-79; Sta: 35-44, 57-67.
The Post War Crises I. Weimar Germany
P: 147-157; Sta 67-84.
Hitler: from Linz to Munich, via Vienna.
P: 147-157; Sta: 67-84.
The Post-War Crises II. The Breakdown of Liberal Italy.
Revolutionary Agitation and Mussolini’s "Fasci di Combattimento."
DG: 21-30; P: 80-94.
Growth and Transformation of Fascism. The "March on Rome"
DG: 31-37; P: 94-110.
1922-1925: Mussolini as Semi-Constitutional Prime Minister
DG: 41-54; P: 110-115.
Italy 1925-1929: Mussolini’s "New State."
DG: 54-77; P: 115-128.
Weimar Stabilization. The Main Kampf and the Rebuilding of the Nazi Party. P: 157-164; Sta: 84-88.
The Great Depression and the Collapse German Democracy.
P: 164-81; Sta 89-112.
The Nazi Seizure of Power.
P: 164-181; Sta 89-112.
The Gleichschaltung of Germany.
P:164-179; Sta: 113-134.
Mussolini’s Regime in the early 1930’s. The Age of Consensus.
I. The Organization of Consensus.
DG: 77-91; P: 212-226.
Midterm Examination
The Age of Consensus. II
The Duce’s’s Totalitarian Project.
DG: 77-91; P: 212-226.
Fascist Foreign Policy. Ethiopia.
DG: 92-102; P: 227-238.
The Nazi State: Society and Economy.
P: 179-194; Pine 17-98; Sta 135-158.
The Nazi State: Building a Volksgemeinschaft. I.
P: 194-211; Pine 101-165; Sta; 159-175.
4 The Nazi State: Building a Volksgemeinschaft. II.
Sta 176-187; Pine: 169-225.
Paper Presentation.
Hitler’s Foreign Policy: The Road to War.
Sta: 188-21.
Mussolini’s Regime after Ethiopia: Semi-Nazification and the Racial Laws.
DG: 103-116; P: 238-244.
World War II. The National Socialist New Order.
DG: 117-123; P: 355-380; Sta: 214-233.
Nazi policies of mass extermination: The Holocaust.
P: 380-382; Sta: 254-274.
Mussolini’s Parallel War.
DG: 123-129; P: 382-391. Defeat and Destruction of Fascism. DG: 130-137; P: 411-414; 436-437; Sta: 234-253.
Interpretations of Fascism.
DG: 138-163; P: 441-495; Pine: 227-234; Sta: 292-309; 13-25