The Great War and Versailles

Course Opening

The course has begun, and the first assignment has been posted. Please see below.

Course Outline

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

• 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

See the Further Readings List for books relating to topics you may wish to study in more detail.

More on Wikibooks

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

• Professor:
  • Christopher Polizano
• Students:
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  • MateoP 05:41, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
  • Pravin L Singh 21 February 2006
  • PaddyC 22:52, 03 August 2006 (UTC)
  • ObubbledO 19:35, 25 February 2009

Educational level: this is a tertiary (university) resource.

Subject classification: this is a history resource.