Week of April 29

Tuesday
  • Read: Merriman 1109-1119, 1127-1129
  • Lecture: Postwar Europe
  • Workshop: exam review
  • Due: 2-3 page review of Long 19th Century
Thursday
  • Exam 8

**For the short essays on Exam 8, you may choose one of the two questions I wrote, and one of the three we wrote together in class on Tuesday. Those are listed below:


o        Explain the origins of the policy of appeasement and how it charted the course of WWII.
o        How did the conclusion of WWII divide Europe into two armed camps and lead to the Cold War?
o        How and why did the United Nations differ from the League of Nations? What shortcomings were rectified? Which persisted?