Class Schedule: Week 11

Tuesday, March 31

Topic of Discussion:
Between the Wars
Reading:
Heyck, 3: 149-169
Sir John Simon on the General Strike (1926) [Blackboard]
John Maynard Keynes, "A Programme of Expansion" (1929) [Blackboard]
Excerpts from George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) [Blackboard]

Thursday, April 2

Topic of Discussion:
From the Versailles Settlement to the Potsdam Conference
Reading:
Heyck, 3: 171-212
Duff Cooper, Resignation Speech in the House of Commons (1938) [Blackboard]
Excerpts from Chiefs of the Imperial General Staff, "British Strategy in a Certain Eventuality" (1940) [Blackboard]
Excerpts from Sir William Beveridge, New Britain (1942) [Blackboard]
Sir Winston Churchill, "Promises about Post-war Conditions" (1943)[Blackboard]

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