HIST 410N Case Study Week 1 Imperialism and Exploitation Candice Hamby Chamberlain College of Nursing HIST410N 11/1/2018 Define social Darwinsim in your own words. What is Social Darwinism? This was a theory that was used to give all lower people less power and to give the civilized ones more obligation to power. This was used in Kiplings poem of “white man’s burden” on how he used white men’s power to take control over other nations because of their race. Analysis of the motiva...

(HIST 410N Week 3 Case Study 3) Franklin Roosevelt and Adolph Hitler both came to power in 1933. They found themselves in charge of nations still suffering from the consequences of World War 1 and the Great Depression. Unemployment in the US was nearly 25%, while nearly one-third of Germany’s workforce had been idled. Americans and Germans had opted for new leadership in 1933 and were now looking totheir new leaders for solutions, and perhaps a new vision of the future. Both FDR’s Inaugu...

HIST-410N Week 2 Discussion 1: The Rise of Totalitarianism Compare and contrast the two types of totalitarian governments that arose after 1917, that is, communism and fascism. What were the origins of these governments, their accomplishments, and their failures? What accounts for the fact that the masses mobilized to support these movements? Elaborate.

HIST 410N Week 1 Discussion 2: The First Total War World War 1 is said to have been the first ‘total’ war. What does that mean? And what does it mean for people and nations trying to pick up the pieces and resume normal life?

Here’s a statement to consider: “Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations.” Defend or condemn the argument by giving examples of the interaction between Western industrial powers and traditional, non Western societies. Were these contacts essentially positive or negative? ”