HIST 419

Examines the historical context for the creation and sustenance of the European dictatorships emphasizing the regimes of Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler. Ideology, propaganda, consensus, pragmatism, coercion, and force all worked together to first create these regimes and then see their demise in war and conflict. -- Prerequisite -- Nine credits of lower-level history and any 300-level history course. -- Corequisite -- None -- Pre or Corequisite -- None