Friday, 5 August 2011

Week-end History Homework

From the History DVDs:

Saturday

The Nazis: A Warning from History (2 Discs)

The ideology and murderous excesses of the Nazi Party's 12-year reign of terror is examined in "The Nazis: A Warning from History".

Write 200 words summarising this disc and put the words here...

"The Road to War" considers the build-up to the conflict and explains how the major nations found confrontation inevitable.

Summarise this in 200 words and put the words here

Sunday

Dunkirk (1 Disc)
War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin (1 disc)
Battle of the Atlantic (1 Disc)

The drama-documentary "Dunkirk" tells the stories of the miraculous evacuation of thousands of servicemen from France.

What did you think about the drama documentary? Put 100 words here.

"War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin" reveals the true horrors of the war on the Eastern Front.

Summarise this disc and put your words here.

Monday

"Battle of the Atlantic" details German U-boats' attempts to starve Britain into submission.

Summarise the disc in 150 words and put your words here.

Tuesday

Pick ONE of the following discs and summarise it here...


Horror in the East (1 Disc)
Battlefields (1 Disc)
D-Day (1 Disc)

The 'barbaric' psychology of the Japanese forces is examined in "Horror in the East" and the inimitable Professor Richard Holmes uncovers the conflict's major campaigns in "Battlefields", while dramatic reconstructions and personal testimony of the Allied invasion make up the compelling D-Day.

D-Day to Berlin (1 Disc)
Auschwitz - The Nazis and 'The Final Solution' (2 Discs)

"D-Day to Berlin" documents 'Operation Market Garden', 'The Battle of the Bulge' and the discovery of the concentration camps, a horror analysed in detail by the acclaimed documentary "Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution'".

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