The tutorials are designed to enable students to explore key issues in European history and historiography during the period 1900-1920. Issues to be addressed include: Who was responsible for the war? Was WWI the first total war? To what extent did the war transform social and moral norms, gender, race and class relations, and the relationships within the global economy? What were the war aims of the belligerent nations? How did soldiers experience the war? Why did they keep fighting for so long? How did the war affect civilians? Did the war achieve anything or was it just an exercise in futility? Why did the peacemaking at Versailles fail? The subject requires that students read a range of materials, both secondary and primary.
This subject will provide a global history of the war with special attention devoted to Australia’s role. The Boeing Airplane Company was established in. The Great War, the ‘seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century,’ now lies a century behind us, but its aftershocks continue to reverberate down to the present. The Federal Government immediately began to mobilize American society to meet the demands of total war.
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