Chapter Thirty-Five: The Great War: The World in Upheaval

1. Bentley & Ziegler, TRADITIONS AND ENCOUNTERS, 2/e Chapter Thirty-Five: The Great War: The World in Upheaval

2. Today’s questions • What were the primary forces that led to World War One? • How did the war become a truly global war? • What were the lasting consequences of the war: • Externally (international relations)? • Internally (societal changes)?

3. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • The Drift Toward War • Nationalist Aspirations • Self-Determination • Balkan Nationalism

4. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • The Drift Toward War • National Rivalries • The Naval Race • Colonial Disputes • Public Opinion

5. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • The Drift Toward War • Understandings and Alliances • The Central Powers • The Allies • War Plans

6. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • Global War • Mutual Butchery • The Western Front The Great War in Europe and southwest Asia, 1914-1918

7. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • Global War • Mutual Butchery • The Western Front • Stalemate and New Weapons • No-Man’s-Land • The Eastern Front • Bloodletting and the “literate soldier”

8. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • Global War • Total War: The Home Front • The Home Front • Women at War • Propaganda

9. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • Global War • Conflict in East Asia and the Pacific • Japan’s Entry into the War • The Twenty-One Demands

10. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • The End of the War • Revolution in Russia • The February Revolution • The Struggle for Power • Lenin • The October Revolution • Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

11. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • The End of War • U.S. Intervention and Collapse of the Central Powers • Economic Considerations • Submarine Warfare • America Declares War • Collapsing Fronts

12. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • The End of War • The Paris Peace Conference • The Paris Settlement • Wilson’s Fourteen Points • The Peace Treaties • Atatürk • The League of Nations • Self-Determination • The Mandate System

13. Chapter Thirty-Five:The Great War: The World in Upheaval • The End of War • Challenges to European Preeminence • Weakened Europe • Revolutionary Ideas

14. Big Questions Revisited • What were the primary forces that led to World War One? • Above all else, WW1 was the culmination of a century of self-determination and nationalist rivalries • How did the war become global? • The war really spread as a consequence of the empires of the main protagonists • What were the lasting effects of WW1? • Externally, European powers were weakened, and the United States had signaled its potential as a global military power • Internally, the ‘old social order’ was forever doomed. Women gained the right to vote in many places. The transformative power of socialist revolution became evident.