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Twitter Facebook We look at the Cold War from 1945 to 1962 in this podcast. Refer to your Unit 6, Discussion 2 assignment in GeorgiaVIEW for the question that you must answer for this assignment. Click Here for an Enhanced Transcript of this Episode. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for Enhanced Transcript Culture in art and ideas. Guernica, by Pablo Picasso “Falling Water.” by Frank Lloyd Wright Gustav Klimt, “The Kiss” Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for Enhanced Transcript of this Episode What were the causes of the Holocaust? What was it? What was its nature? How does it represent a new crime in history? What does it say about so-called Western “civilization?” We explore all these questions in this important podcast episode in our course. Holocaust Memorial. Miami, Florida Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for an Enhanced Transcript of this Episode In this podcast we trace the major events of the Second World War. This podcast will help you answer the Discussion assignment question that you have for the Unit 5, Discussion 4 of this course. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for an Enhanced Transcript of this Episode Why did the first World War not end in 1919 and really only ended in 1945, by which time it was called the Second World War? This podcast helps you answer this question. The Versailles Treaty Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Click Here for Enhanced Transcript of this Episode Joan Dudley, “Under the swastika,: A Protest against Fascism hat were the six features of Fascism? In this podcast, we learn what ideas Fascism consisted of and how it arose during the years in-between the two World Wars and set the stage for the outbreak of the Second World War. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook From the First World War’s beginning to the Second World War’s End. Click Here for Enhanced Transcript of this Episode Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Great Britain encourages a skeptical Uncle Sam to jump in to the swimming pool of imperialism… “The Duty of Great Nations,” by Udo Keppler (1899). John Bull of Great Britain is encouraging a skeptical Uncle Sam to jump on the imperialism bandwagon with England. Soon, Uncle Sam would practice imperialism himself. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Albert Einstein becomes an American citizen (October 1940) Between the 1889s and 1914, revolutionary changes occurred in our understanding of science, psychology and physics… Einstein becomes a US citizen. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook The theory of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, presented in the Communist Manifesto (1848), was yet another theory of progress so popular in the nineteenth century, along with Darwinism, Positivism and nationalism. Marxism was popular with the proletarians created by the Industrial Revolution, because it predicted that they would one day win a successful proletarian revolution against the bourgeoisie all over the world, one whose success was the inevitable product of class confli...

Twitter Facebook Here is a link to a transcript of this Episode Who was Charles Darwin, this Newton of the Nineteenth century? And what was his theory of the evolution of species by natural selection. How did it impact virtually every aspect of Western Civilization, from political ideologies to psychology and philosophy? In this special landmark podcast, Dr. Reiman explores his significance. Darwin in 1870. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook ationalism took a dark turn for the worse after 1848. Nations that came into existence after 1848–such as Germany and Italy–were unified by military monarchies adopting the strategies of statecraft and war. In this podcast, Dr. Reiman traces the ways in which these two nations buried liberalism in their countries and strengthened autocratic government between 1848 and 1871, lighting the long fuse to World War I. A Young Bismarck Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook The Revolutions of 1848 in Paris, Berlin, Vienna and Rome were the last liberal national revolutions in Europe because they all failed, and because they all raised the specter of a new kind of revolution, revolution by the communist proletariat. In this podcast, you will prepare for the Unit 3, Discussion 5 assignment by understanding the causes and consequences of these events, as well as the meaning of the new ideas of Socialism and Communism that were birthed by them. Louis ...

Twitter Facebook In this podcast we look at the false hope that the French Revolution of 1830 put in the hearts of the liberal bourgeoisie (middle class). “Hearts” is the correct word, because Romanticism was a driving force of this liberal revolution, as the painting by Eugene Delacroix shows here. The Revolution of 1830 set up the middle class for an awful fall, and the fall came with the bloody revolutions of 1848 all over Europe, revolutions that decoupled liberalism from nationalism and rev...

Twitter Facebook Here we trace the reasons why the Industrial Revolution in its first place and time, 1750-1848 Great Britain was so unregulated and cruel. “Bobbin Boys in the Depths of the Industrial Revolution Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Between 1750 and 1840, Great Britain was alone in experiencing the first Industrial Revolution. In this podcast I discuss what every nation first has to possess in order to experience an Industrial Revolution of its own, and what Great Britain did possess by 1750. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook In this Introduction, we look at the definition and revolutionary consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Many leaders of the nineteenth century, reflected Romantic ideas by their actions. Among the most notable was Abraham Lincoln, US president from 1861 to 1865. Here our podcast looks at the ways in which Lincoln reflected the values of Romanticism in his person, actions and ideas, and how he would never have been heard from had there not been a Romantic movement. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook In this podcast we continue talking about the French Revolution, specifically its ideas and the events within the Revolution that represent those ideas and helped to trigger them. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook In this brief essay we review your textbook’s list of causes of the French Revolution. Twitter Facebook

Twitter Facebook Here we look at the French Revolution’s consequences, as a prelude to looking at its causes. Why reverse the logical order of this analysis? If you understand the consequences of the French Revolution, namely its importance, you should then be in a position to be interested in learning next about its causes. Twitter Facebook

This podcast only concerns Part One of the Final Exam, which consists of the following question that you must answer in an essay. I include the rubric that I will use to grade the essay. Part Two of the Final exam is covered in the Study Guide for the Final Exam for our course in Western Civilization. Discuss TWO major ideas, developments or events whose origins can be located in the nineteenth century that helped to cause the First World War (1914-1919), and explain how they did so. Rubric fo...

Click Here for an Enhanced Transcript of this Podcast Episode About Your Primary Source Assignment In this assignment you will analyze a propaganda poster, “Revolution Nationale,” produced by the government of Vichy France between 1940 and 1942. The student will analyze the image utilizing the graphic worksheet provided by the Library of Congress. A Copy of the Library of Congress Cartoon Analysis Outline is here. There are 12 questions on this outline. All 12 questions will appear on the Qui...

Since we will not have a class meeting on Thursday, October 24, complete the following four steps as an out of class assignment: * Listen to the Podcast Recording above, which completes my lecture on the Federalist Era of the 1790s. * Look over the PowerPoint presentation, “The Federalist Era,” under the Unit 4 Content as you listen to the above podcast * Complete the Unit 4 Discussion Assignment on parties and politics in the 1790s, by completing the readings listed there and posting your re...