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The “Great War” Taught by Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE

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The Century’s Initial Catastrophe Europe in 1914

Towards Crisis in Politics and Culture Causes of the War and the July Crisis, 1914 The August Madness

The Failed Gambles—War Plans Break Down The Western Front Experience Life and Death in the Trenches The Great Battles of Attrition

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12. War Aims and Occupations 13.

The Southern Fronts Soldiers as Victims

Explore the Turmoil of World War I

From August 1914 to November 1918, an unprecedented catastrophe gripped the world—the aftershocks of which reverberate well into our own time. World War I was the first conflict involving entire societies devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to win victory at any price.

World War I: The “Great War” tells the riveting, tragic, and cautionary tale of this watershed historical event in 36 lectures delivered by award-winning Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius. He devotes great attention to the often-explored Western Front, but also examines in depth other important arenas of engagement, each of which played its own important role in history’s first “total war.” By the conclusion of the last lecture, as you finish your survey of World War I, you’ll have discovered how our own understanding of ourselves in the world has been shaped by the experience of the first major war of the 20th

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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

World War I: The “Great War” Course no. 8210 | 36 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)

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