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Lecture journal week 8
From the lecture:
What good are international treaties if people like Hitler can just ignore them?
Do you think there was any point at which war could have been avoided? who could have done this and how?
What reasons did I give for why Germany didn’t invade England by sea?
How did I explain Liebensraum?
What were the reasons that the German campaign initially was so successfull and what were the unanticipated obstacles the Germans ran into on the Eastern Front with the Soviet Union?
Discussion week 7
Discussion week 7
Answer the following question in 3-5 paragraphs in the discussion board by Friday night:
All Quiet is a film about WWI, which occured between 1914-1919 in Europe, but the film itself was based on a book written after the war and it was produced in 1930. Knowing what you now do about the “interwar period” (1919-1939), what was the message that you think the filmmakers and the author of the book were trying to get across and do you think they did so successfully. Be sure to consider the state of the world in 1930 and what people were most anxious about at the time. Do you consider this film to be propaganda, as defined in the lecture, why or why not?
