Feb. 28/Mar. 2: Prep for Summative Debates: Rise of Authoritarian Regimes

Revise Your Counterclaim...

Resources to help you with this summative task:
Philosophy and Ethics of Leadership and Governance (Russia Debate):

• Leadership Expert: A Political Leader (leadershipexpert.co.uk)
  
• How can we measure political leadership? (Oxford University Press, 2017
• 10 Unique Perspectives on What Makes a Great Leader (Forbes, 2016)​

Philosophy of Historical Causation (Germany and Japan Debates):

• Inevitability in History (Philosophic Exchange, Temple University, 1971; DigitalCommons)
• Are Historic Event Inevitable? (Journal of Thought, 1973; JSTOR)
• Causation in History (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Philosophy of History; Stanford University, 2007)
• The Size of History: Coincidence, Counterfactuality and Questions of Scale in History (The Challenge of Chance, The Frontiers Collection, 2016)

Resources to help you with developing a counterargument and writing a Counterclaim paragraph: 

• Link to exemplar claims and counterclaims (collection of samples from SAS World History students)

HW: Continue Research and Find Supporting Evidence. Take Notes (in group document). 

Topic-Specific Resources: 
(note: Some of these are credible, reliable sources and others are less scholarly and credible. Use good judgement in which additional sources you use for building your background information vs. using for a source for evidence)

Rise of Authoritarianism - Pre-World War II

• Dictators, Tyrants, Authoritarian Government: Despotism (1946 Encyclopedia Britannica Films; credible source)

• Crash Course World History: WWII (Crash Course w/ John Green - use for familiarity--not as a scholarly/credible source of evidence)
• Crash Course WWII: A War for Resources (Crash Course w/ John Green - use for familiarity--not as a scholarly/credible source of evidence)
• How Dictators Come to Power in Democracy (OpEd piece, Forbes 2013)

Rise of Communism in Russia:

• Joseph Stalin: National Hero or Cold-blooded Murderer? (BBC Teach; credible source)
• Stalin: Inside the Terror  (BBC; credible source)

• Understanding Stalin (The Atlantic, Nov. 2014)
• The World Wars: Mini Bio Joseph Stalin (History Channel; credible but non-scholarly source; avoid using as your source of evidence if possible)

Rise of Nazism in Germany:

• The Rise of Fascism and Nazism in Europe  (ABC-CLIO; credible source)
• The Treaty of Versailles and the Rise of Nazism (The New AmericanVol. 34 Issue 21, Gale Academic database; you can access via Schoology Library Resources)
• The Rise of the Nazi Party (FacingHistory.org; credible source)
• How did the Nazis Rise to Power? (TheHolocaustExplained.org; credible source)
• Was Hitler’s Seizure of Power on January 30, 1933, Inevitable? (German Historical Institute, 1997)
• Podium: The Rise of Hitler was not Inevitable (Independent.UK.co; credible but not scholarly)
• TEDEd: How Did Hitler Rise to Power? (TED Ed; credible source; log in through Schoology Library Resources)​

Rise of Fascism in Japan:

• What is Fascism? (NowThisWorld video - - use for familiarity--not as a scholarly/credible source of evidence)
• Japanese Fascism (HistoryToday.com)
• Fascism in Japan, 1926-1945 (ABC-CLIO; credible source; log in through Schoology Library Resources)
• Fascism and the History of Pre-War Japan: The Failure of a Concept (The Journal of Asian Studies; JSTOR)
• 'The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952': A look at the rise of fascism in Japan (Book review in JapanTimes.co)
• Japanese Fascism Revisited (Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, 2005)
• History Brief: The Rise of Imperial Japan (Reading Through History)

You are welcome to do your own additional research and use sources you find on your own. Please be sure to use CREDIBLE/SCHOLARLY sources (e.g., ABC-CLIO, Encyclopedia Britannica, published government documents, primary sources, etc.).

Do not use non-scholarly sources for your evidence in your counterclaim or in your speech (e.g. History.com, Crash Course videos, Ducksters, AlphaHistory, Quora, Wikipedia, etc.)