The Great War and Versailles
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Course Opening
[edit | edit source]The course has begun, and the first assignment has been posted. Please see below.
Course Outline
[edit | edit source]Classes will take place once a week to once every two weeks. Since the Great War has such a rich history, the focus will be placed on military history, though students are encouraged to branch out based upon their own interest. The following syllabus is open to modification:
- Europe in 1914 / The Outbreak of War Assignment One, Lecture One
- 1914: The Opening Campaigns / 1915: The War Continues
- 1916: The War of Attrition / The United States Enters the War
- 1917: The Year of Crisis / 1918: The Final Campaigns
- Reflecting on the Experience of the War / 1919: The Peace Settlement
Currently proposed course study tasks or essay topics
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Recommended Text
[edit | edit source]- The First World War by Michael Howard (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 0192804456: A short introduction to the topic. I will be drawing my lectures from it heavily.
Additional Books
[edit | edit source]See the Further Readings List for books relating to topics you may wish to study in more detail.
More on Wikibooks
[edit | edit source]Wikibooks already has some brief information on the Great War.
- World War I and the Treaty of Versailles (1914 - 1920)
- Causes and course of the First World War
- Effects of the First World War
Class List
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- ObubbledO 19:35, 25 February 2009
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Subject classification: this is a history resource. |