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Updated as of 2 October 05
Today in History:
On October 2, 1780, Major John
André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was
executed on this day in history.
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off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted
for these guys."
A senior figure at a
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World War I Final
Instructions: Do two of the following questions posted on
this page. In your answer, provide the analysis and evidence that is required as
well as the documentation, i.e., footnotes/endnotes or bibliography that is
required to successfully complete the assignment. The final is due sometime
during final week, and should be turned in no later than Friday by e-mail as an
attachment in MSWord format by December 14, 2007.
- World War I was called the “war to end all wars”;
however, the peace that followed made sure that would not happen. Why did
the Versailles Conference fail? Who was responsible? What went wrong?
Explain.
- One can argue that World War I was the birth of
modernity. Is that true? How did the First World War change world history?
What is the political and social legacy of World War I?
- World War I was not sexy like other conflicts in the
twentieth century. As a result, people tended to forget the sacrifices that
made in places like Flanders, the Somme, and Verdun, just to name a few. Why
is that? What accounts for the amnesia that has plagued society following
the war? How did the former belligerents remember the conflict and the men
who fought in the trenches?
- Ernst Jünger in Storm of Steel presented a
graphic picture of the war from a soldier who lived the horrors of the war.
How did his picture differ from what you had read before reading his
account? What made his book more different than Erich Maria Remarque’s
All Quiet on the Western Front?
- The First World War demonstrated that the new
technologies that emerged from the growth of industrialism far exceeded the
tactical development of the belligerents. Why did happen? Use the lessons of
Passchendaele to explain why that had happened?
- How did World War I help mask
Turkish intentions of finally resolving their problem with the Armenians?
What made the Turkish decision to eliminate the Armenians genocide?
- Sometimes myth and memory collide.
How do we explain the strange event that occurred during Christmas of 1914?
Was there a "truce?" How did it happen?
- During World War II the United
States became the great arsenal for democracy. What was the American role in
the war during the war's early years? What factors drove the United States
into conflict? How did the British help expedite Wilson's decision to
declare war in the spring of 1917?
- After it had become obvious that
the war was stalemated on the Western Front, the British were looking for
another theater to weaken the Central Powers. What happened at Gallipoli?
Why did the British support the Arab rising against the Ottomans?
- How significant was intelligence
services in World War I? What role did British codebreakers play in
Germany's eventual defeat?
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