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Storm of Steel assignment

Storm of Steel assignment. Write an essay answering one of the following questions: 1. Should Junger's account be considered a "pro" or "anti" war book? 2. What insights does Storm of Steel provide into the experiences of a soldier during WWI?

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Storm of Steel assignment

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  1. Storm of Steel assignment • Write an essay answering one of the following questions: • 1. Should Junger's account be considered a "pro" or "anti" war book? • 2. What insights does Storm of Steel provide into the experiences of a soldier during WWI? • 3. What is Junger's attitude to the enemy, the British, in Storm of Steel? • Length: 5-6 pages; double-spaced, 12-point font.

  2. Great Powers of Europe Britain France Germany Russia

  3. A painting by this painter was recently discovered. • Van Gogh • Rembrandt • Monet

  4. Europe in 1900

  5. Which was the most conservative nation (politically and socially)? • Britain • France • Germany • Russia

  6. 1. Great Britain • United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland (1801) • Political structure • Unrest • Suffragists & Suffragettes • “suffrage” = a vote or assent • Emmeline Pankhurst: Women’s Social and Political Union – “deeds, not words” • Emily Davison at Epson Derby (1913) • Empire • Military • “Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves; Britons never, never, never shall be slaves”

  7. Rokeby Venus by Diego Velaquez (1599-1660) National Gallery, London

  8. 1. Great Britain • United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland (1801) • Political structure • Unrest • Suffragists & Suffragettes • “suffrage” = a vote or assent • Emmeline Pankhurst: Women’s Social and Political Union – “deeds, not words” • Emily Davison at Epson Derby (1913) • Empire • Military • “Rule Britannia! Britannia rules the waves; Britons never, never, never shall be slaves”

  9. Why was the vote so restricted in 1900? • Fear of working men and women participating in politics? • Ruling by elites was working fine

  10. HMS Dreadnought: helped fuel naval race with Germany

  11. 2. France • Political structure • Third Republic (1870-1940) • Multi-party • Dreyfus case (1894-1906) • Empire • Military and alliances

  12. Alfred Dreyfus

  13. 2. France • Political structure • Third Republic (1870-1940) • Multi-party • Dreyfus case (1894-1906) • Empire • Military and alliances

  14. 3. Germany • Political structure • Unification (1871) • Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) • Alsace & Lorraine • Prussia: agent of German unification • Reichstag & Bundesrat • Emperor Wilhelm II (reigned 1888-1918) • Empire • Military • Dual Alliance (1879)

  15. Otto von Bismarck, German Chancellor

  16. French soldiers, 1870

  17. French memory

  18. 3. Germany • Political structure • Unification (1871) • Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) • Alsace & Lorraine • Prussia: agent of German unification • Reichstag & Bundesrat • Emperor Wilhelm II (reigned 1888-1918) • Empire • Military • Dual Alliance (1879)

  19. 4. Russia • Political structure • Serfs (1861) c. 50 million • Autocracy: Nicholas II • Divine monarchy • Duma (1905) • Ethnicities • Less than ½ were Russians • Empire • USSR • Trans-Siberian Railway (1904)

  20. Russian goal: Dardanelles Strait

  21. Trans-Siberian Railway

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