WORLD WAR I

How would you explain the enthusiasm many Europeans had for war on the eve of the First World War?

How did industrialization change the nature of warfare?

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION

How did the war undermine the tsarist regime in Russia and how did the tsar himself contribute to the collapse of his government?

Compare and contrast the wartime revolutionary movements in Russia and Germany.

THE PEACE SETTLEMENT

Compare and contrast the peace settlements that followed the Napoleonic wars and World War I.

Who was excluded from the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Versailles and what were the long-term consequences of these exclusions?

MAKE CONNECTIONS

How did the destruction of World War I compare to the human and material costs of the Thirty Years’ War and/or the Napoleonic wars?

Defend or refute the following statement. “Given the events of 1918 and 1919, the outbreak of the Second World War was inevitable.”