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Europe, 1914-1945: Dark Continent? - JWST2109
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Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
 
 
School:  School of History and Philosophy
 
 
Course Outline: http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/currentstudents/ugoutlines.html
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 36 units of credit
 
 
Equivalent: EURO2482, HIST2482
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Explores examples of catastrophic wars and revolutionary upheavals, examines cases of ethnic-cleansing and genocide, and analyses the impact of ideologies on concepts of nation, race and gender. Themes include: Total War, Socialism, Fascism, Communism, Anarchism and the "New Woman". Case studies will include Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, the Spanish Civil War, WWI & WWII, the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust.

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