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Oct 5: US-European Relations in the 1920s

Oct 7: The Great Depression and the Road to War

READING:
Merrill, Paterson 3. The International History of the 1920s;

Merrill, Paterson 4. US entry into World War II

Iriye, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations, Chapters 5, 8-11; pp. 73-88, 116-191.

Third 1-page paper
Due in Precept Week 4
500 words-ish

Choose any two of the grouped essays for this week from the chapter on the 1920s (such as deGrazia and O’Brien) or the Road to War and write a short response that analyzes how the authors’ arguments differ. On what issues do the authors agree? On what issues do they disagree? Are these disagreements in attitude or disagreements in belief?

More Resources:

Andrew Gamble, "Hegemony and Decline: Britain and the United States," in Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846-1914 and the United States 1941-2001 edited by Patrick Karl O'Brien and Armand Clesse (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2002), pp. 127-140

Robert Gilpin, "The Rise of American Hegemony," in Two Hegemonies: Britain 1846-1914 and the United States 1941-2001 edited by Patrick Karl O'Brien and Armand Clesse (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2002), pp. 165-182