World War I

 

Study Questions-Lecture and Readingin The Earth and Its Peoples, pp. 752-64

1. What were the underlying causes of World War I?
2. Why did the war become a stalemate?
3. What brought the United States into the war? How did US participation bring an end to the stalemate?

4. What was the effect of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany and Europe in general?
 

Study Questions-Reading, The Human Record

"Romance of War" pp. 379-84; "Reality of War," pp. 387-8
1. What different messages about war do these pictures convey?
2. What can explain these different perceptions?

Poems of Wilfred Owen, pp. 385-6
1. What message about war do these poems convey?