Great Courses Modern History World War I: The "Great War"

36 Lectures 1 The Century's Initial Catastrophe 2 Europe in 1914 3 Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture 4 Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914 5 The August Madness 6 The Failed Gambles-War Plans Break Down 7 The Western Front Experience 8 Life and Death in the Trenches 9 The Great Battles of Attrition 10 The Eastern Front Experience 11 The Southern Fronts 12 War Aims and Occupations 13 Soldiers as Victims 14 Storm Troopers and Future Dictators 15 The Total War of Technology 16 Air War 17 War at Sea 18 The Global Reach of the War 19 The War State 20 Propaganda War 21 Endurance and Stress on the Home Front 22 Dissent and Its Limits 23 Remobilization in 1916-1917 24 Armenian Massacres-Tipping into Genocide 25 Strains of War-Socialists and Nationalists 26 Russian Revolutions 27 America's Entry into the War 28 America at War-Over There and Over Here 29 1918-The German Empire's Last Gamble 30 The War's End-Emotions of the Armistice 31 Toppled Thrones-The Collapse of Empires 32 The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement 33 Aftershocks-Reds, Whites, and Nationalists 34 Monuments, Memory, and Myths 35 The Rise of the Mass Dictatorships 36 Legacies of the Great War