SILL: American History: World War I

SILL: American History: World War I

Wednesdays, 6/7-28/2023, 12:30-2pm, Galloway Campus Room F-209 | WWI is often thought of as the end of the long 100-year peace, which stretched from the end of the Napoleonic wars to 1914. During the period, Germany, Italy, Britain, France and Russia all became principal players in imperial competitions one with the other. Two new powers, the United States and Japan emerged as well. The gilded age was considered an age of immense progress. No one thought it could all be torn down by a 4-year war that would result in the wholesale destruction of five empires. The peace of Versailles which ended the war is considered so imperfect as to have set the stage for the next World War just 20 years later. The ramifications of WW1 are still with us in the configuration of western Europe, Ukraine, eastern Europe and the Middle East. This course examines these major issues and helps us reflect on contemporary global issues as well.

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