Week 4 Discussion: World War II
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, select and respond to one of the following options:
Option 1: Examine one or more major battles, including both the Axis and Allies
strategies, the outcome of the battles, and the subsequent effects of the victory/defeat.
Include an examination of the technologies that were crucial factors in the battle.
Option 2: Examine the Nazi ideology in wiping out an entire ethnic group.
o How could any modern and so-called advanced and evolved nation like Germany go
along so willingly with the mass murder of at least 11 million civilians?
o How were the Germans able to construct the facilities they built for their "Final
Solution to the Jewish Question" so as to commit genocide on an industrial scale?
Initial post:
Hitler believed that a person’s motivation, abilities, behaviors and characteristics were all
determined by “racial makeup”. Therefore, no individual could ‘overcome’ the innate qualities of
Initial Post Instructions
For the initial post, select and respond to one of the following options:
Option 1: Examine one or more major battles, including both the Axis and Allies
strategies, the outcome of the battles, and the subsequent effects of the victory/defeat.
Include an examination of the technologies that were crucial factors in the battle.
Option 2: Examine the Nazi ideology in wiping out an entire ethnic group.
o How could any modern and so-called advanced and evolved nation like Germany go
along so willingly with the mass murder of at least 11 million civilians?
o How were the Germans able to construct the facilities they built for their "Final
Solution to the Jewish Question" so as to commit genocide on an industrial scale?
Initial post:
Hitler believed that a person’s motivation, abilities, behaviors and characteristics were all
determined by “racial makeup”. Therefore, no individual could ‘overcome’ the innate qualities of
