WORLD WAR I
Course Lectures
Topic 1 -- Introduction and Background
Introductory Lecture (Notes)
(List)
Reading: Europe and the
World (from: Theodore von Laue, Why Lenin? Why Stalin?,
Chapter 1)
Essay: A Brief Introduction
to German History by L. J. Andrew Villalon (Background to unification)
Topic 2 -- German Unification
(1862-1871) (Notes)
(List)
Topic 3 -- Austria-Hungary and
the Nationality Problem (Notes)
(List)
Test 1: Study Guide
Topic 4 -- The Age of Bismarck
(1871-1890) (Notes)
(List)
Topic 5 -- The Kaiser takes the
Reins (1890-1905) (Notes)
(List)
Topic 6 -- A Decade of Crises
(1905-1914) (Notes)
(List)
Topic 7 -- 1914: Europe on the
Brink (Notes) (List)
Topic 8 -- The Final Crisis
(Summer, 1914): Shots are Fired and the Lights Go Out (Notes)
(List)
Topic 9 -- Who was Responsible? (Notes)
(List)
Test 2 -- Readings
Test 2: Study Guide
Topic 10 -- The Campaign of
1914: From Liege to Tannenberg and the Marne (Notes)
(List)
Topic 11 -- Stalemate in the
Trenches (1915-1917) (Notes)
(List)
Topic 12 -- Attempting to Break
the Stalemate (Notes)
(List)
Topic 13 -- 1917: Year of
Agony, Year of Hope (Notes)
(List)
Topic 14 -- The Russian
Revolutions of 1917 (Notes)
(List)
Topic 15 -- The Blockade, the
Submarine, and America's Entry into the War (Notes)
(List)
Topic 16 -- The Campaign of
1918: Germany's Final Gamble (Notes)
(List)
Topic 17 -- The Peace
Settlement and Seeds for the Future (Notes)
(List)
Final Exam -- Readings
Final Exam: Study Guide
Erich Maria Remarque,
All Quiet on the Western Front
(Required: Questions on the Final Exam)
Robert Graves, Goodbye To All That
(Required: Questions on the Final Exam)
Vera Britton, Testament of Youth (Optional)