Traditions and Encounters, AP Edition (Bentley), 5th EditionChapter 33:
The Great War: The World in UpheavalLearning Objectives
When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Explain and discuss the key causes behind the drift toward European war in the early twentieth century.
- Identify and discuss key alliance systems and their members.
- Discuss the global expansion of the Great War.
- Discuss the experience of trench warfare and its impact on soldiers and civilians.
- Understand the features of total war and its social and economic consequences.
- Compare and contrast the course of the war in Africa, southwest Asia, and east Asia.
- Explain the links between the Great War and the Russian revolutions of 1917.
- Identify and explain the reasons behind U.S. intervention in the Great War and the collapse of the Central Powers.
- Outline and discuss the important legacies of the end of the war and European preeminence.
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