HIST 130: World War I

Syllabus

Date	Topic	Readings & Assignments
Wednesday 27 Aug 14	Introduction
Friday 29 Aug 14	Background on World War I	The First World War, pp. 1-29
Monday 1 Sept 14	Causes of World War I	The First World War, pp. 41-45 The Anglo-Russian Entente Proclamation of the Young Turks
Wednesday 3 Sept 14	Outbreak of hostilities	Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination The Constitution of the Ujedinjenje ili Smrt Speech by the Canadian Prime Minister
Friday 5 Sept 14	Propaganda & Recruitment	The First World War, pp. 54-64 Misc. articles, letters & posters
Monday 8 Sept 14	Letters from the trenches	The First World War, pp. 65-68
Wednesday 10 Sept 14	Test #1
Friday 12 Sept 14	New military technologies - Air & Land	The First World War, pp. 47-49, 103-06 "Air Warfare" “12 Technological Advancements of World War I”
Monday 15 Sept 14	New military technologies - Sea	Account of the U-9 Submarine Attack Sinking of the Lusitania
Wednesday 17 Sept 14	Gallipoli, Verdun, and the Somme	The First World War, pp. 68-73 Photos of the battlefields, then & now
Friday 19 Sept 14	The Eastern & Italian Fronts	The First World War, pp. 74-80, 83-86
Monday 22 Sept 14	Wartime atrocities	The First World War, pp. 87-92
Wednesday 24 Sept 14	Women’s Work in Wartime	The First World War, pp. 94-97, 98-100, 106-08 “The Peace Movement and Some Misconceptions” (Handout) Edith Cavell On Postcards
Friday 26 Sept 14	Test #2
Monday 29 Sept 14	WWI & the U.S.A.	The Zimmerman Telegram The Espionage Act (Handout)
Wednesday 1 Oct 14	Artwork	War Drawings by Muirhead Bone
Friday 3 Oct 14	Nationalism as a result of war	The First World War, pp. 109-13 and 140-143 Proclamation of the Irish Republic The Coup d'État in Prague
Monday 6 Oct 14	Shell Shock and other casualties	The First World War, pp. 117-25, 128-29
Wednesday 8 Oct 14	Armistice & Peace	The First World War, pp. 130-37 Speech on the Fourteen Points
Friday 10 Oct 14	Test #3