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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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"In my view we are much worse
off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted
for these guys."
A senior figure at a
military-sponsored think tank as told to James Fallows in "Bush's Lost Year" in
The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 2004)
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World War I Midterm
Directions: Do one of the following
questions. Your response should be approximately five pages of length and
double-spaced. If students use outside materials to answer the question, then
endnotes or footnotes should be used to identify your sources.
- One method of looking at World War I is to subdivide
the war’s causation into three components. The first would be the
pre-conditions, the very long-term events that made the war possible. The
second was the precipitants, the very near-term crises that assured the
outbreak of the war. The final element in this scenario was the trigger, the
single event or events that lit the fuse that spark the war. How would you
apply this to World War I?
- All of the major belligerents
believed that war could serve as a means of temporarily solving internal
problems. What were the difficulties that Britain, France, Germany, Russia,
and Austria confronted in 1914? How would a short war resolve or postpone
them; however, was that realistic? Explain.
- Some may contend that World War I
was not revolutionary in terms of introducing new weapon systems to the
battlefield, since the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War pioneered barbed
wire, entrenchments, and the machine gun was around much earlier. Still it
is obvious that weapons development far exceeded tactical innovations. How
revolutionary was the First World War? What innovations introduced during
the conflict changed warfare forever?
- Before World War I generals and
general staffs set policy far ahead of diplomats and foreign ministers. What
impact would that have in the coming of World War I? How significant were
military planning in the coming of the First World War?
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