HIST 295- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 55 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 295
• Professor: Gordon Dueck

Document Summary

Holocaust: the destruction of european jews 1933-1945: weltfeind, world view of nazism- jews as world enemy, matter less than other people, also look at other victims. Assignments: essay #1 (25%)- oct 14th, essay #2 (35%)- nov 25th, oct 10th- thanksgiving, oct 12th- yon kippur: week of oct 10th no classes, poll/survey -5 , final exam (35%)- multiple choice. Je(cid:449)s (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t (cid:373)essage i(cid:374) this fil(cid:373), (cid:373)ore u(cid:374)i(cid:448)ersal, da(cid:374)gers of fas(cid:272)is(cid:373) for e(cid:448)er(cid:455)o(cid:374)e: u(cid:374)i(cid:448)ersal (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s, (cid:271)ut (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t dis(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t role of a(cid:374)ti-semitism/ the jews. Functionalists & intentionalists: two schools of thought about what happened. Intentionalists: hitler wrote book, in 1930s- he (cid:272)a(cid:373)e to po(cid:449)er, i(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)ted (cid:449)hat he"d (cid:449)ritte(cid:374) about in the 1920s, holocaust happened, hitler embodied anti-semitism of the time, functionalists, not a straight path, crooked, many things had to happen, ex. Jan 1942- wanisees conference: first meeting that nazis had to map out final solution, was(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)til (cid:1005)9(cid:1008)(cid:1006, contingent, a lot of factors.