Today, we worked on Exercise #8, (it compared the rise of Hitler against Mussolini). Next, we watched some primary footage of the Spartacus Putsch and the Kapp Putsch. Afterwords, we had a discussion that allowed us to create a table to compare some of the revolutions we've studied to date, namely the two from 1917 in Russia, and the three in Germany from 1919 to 1923. I suppose we could have included Bloody Sunday and the March on Rome. These activities are important because they illustrate how to take the "factoids" we learn and bring them together to make new "big" observations and conclusions.
For homework, please read DeMarco, Chapter Seven: boys prepare to speak to the odd and girls to the even numbered questions. Tomorrow we'll watch the second half of the Germany video and we'll discuss the events of 1934 (if we have time after debriefing all of the Demarco questions).
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