History of Modern Germany

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) This survey of political, economic, social, and cultural developments in Germany from the Holy Roman Empire to the Berlin Republic focuses on developments after the Congress of Vienna (1815), including the 1848 Revolution, Bismarck and German unification in 1871, Wilhelmine Germany and imperialism, World War One, the Weimar Republic, Hitler and National Socialism, World War Two and the Holocaust, the two Germanies in the Cold War, and reunification in 1989/90. Major historiographical controversies and methods of interpreting and analyzing German history are examined through lectures, explication of primary sources and critical reading of secondary sources, group and class discussions, and films. Cross-listed: GERM-2331(3). Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and GERM-2331.