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Compare and contrast the photograph of a French soldier wearing a gas mask (Document 25-2) and the portrait of Baron von Richthofen (Document 25-3). How might images like the former have made images like the latter necessary?
Compare and contrast Swanwick’s views (Document 25-4) regarding women’s place in the workforce during World War I with those of Clara Zetkin (Document 22-5) regarding prewar industrial society. What had changed? How?
What do Swanwick’s and Lenin’s differing views about the route to social and economic progress (women’s emancipation in Swanwick’s case, workers’ emancipation in Lenin’s) suggest about the political environments in which each lived (Documents 25-4 and 25-5)?
How might Woodrow Wilson have responded to the German debate over the peace treaty (Documents 24-6 and 24-7)? With what aspects of the German position might he have sympathized?