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As an introduction, please view the following Crash Courses: World War II marks the near-midpoint of the 20th Century with one of the most atrocious periods in World History. It’s almost unfathomable to us today what a strain on resources, lives, and economies a total war like WWII was, but even deeper than that, it […]
April 16, 2020
After WWI, economic uncertainties bred fear. Political parties and ideologies, as always, seized upon that and exploited that. We’ve seen the Russian Revolution and the growth of Communism in Russia, but Communist parties also grew in Western Europe as a response to massive unemployment and gross inflation levels. Germany, due to the punishments in the […]
April 13, 2020
The 20th Century marks the birth of one of humanity’s darkest recurring tendencies – genocide. The first mass killing that meets these criteria is the German genocide of Herero and Nama people in Namibia during 1907-1908. You can see some early indications of where the idea of genocide is headed by the late 1930s, like […]
April 3, 2020
Please visit the College Board’s site on their emergency exam testing and read it for detail if you have not yet done so. Me, basing my assumption off of years of teaching AP history classes and a few million DBQs written in high school, figured that there would be no way that the College Board […]
April 3, 2020
I’ve seen more mentions of the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu pandemic in the press in the last month and a half than I ever have before (save for an APWH DBQ from a few years back). You guys might be wondering about it and why it was so bad – and why people keep citing it […]
April 2, 2020
This is the most important and also worst thought out treaty of the 20th Century. Austria-Hungary technically started WWI, but Germany had to shoulder the blame. Britain wanted to be pragmatic in the terms of the treaty, but it was an election year, so that went out the window. Woodrow Wilson had a good plan, […]
March 31, 2020
Everything that we’ve been discussing leading up to the start of this unit is a contributing cause of World War I. Nationalism led to a belief that individual countries’ cultures were superior to their neighbors’. To prove how much better they are, they had to build up their militaries – especially Germany – and they […]
Dr. Astorian's AP Consortium 
April 22, 2020
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