The Great War and Versailles

## Contents

* 1 Course Opening
* 2 Course Outline
* 3 Currently proposed course study tasks or essay topics
* 4 Recommended Text
* 4.1 Additional Books
* 4.2 More on Wikibooks
* 5 Class List

## Course Opening

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The course has begun, and the first assignment has been posted. Please see below.

## Course Outline

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Classes will take place once a week to once every two weeks. Since the Great War has such a rich history, the focus will be placed on military history, though students are encouraged to branch out based upon their own interest. The following syllabus is open to modification:

* Europe in 1914 / The Outbreak of War Assignment One, Lecture One
* 1914: The Opening Campaigns / 1915: The War Continues
* 1916: The War of Attrition / The United States Enters the War
* 1917: The Year of Crisis / 1918: The Final Campaigns
* Reflecting on the Experience of the War / 1919: The Peace Settlement

## Currently proposed course study tasks or essay topics

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(Perceived as synergistic learning while improving Wikiversity's free resources) Ideas or proposed study tasks or essay topics.

## Recommended Text

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* The First World War by Michael Howard (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 0192804456: A short introduction to the topic. I will be drawing my lectures from it heavily.

### Additional Books

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See the Further Readings List for books relating to topics you may wish to study in more detail.

### More on Wikibooks

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Wikibooks already has some brief information on the Great War.

* World War I and the Treaty of Versailles (1914 - 1920)
* Causes and course of the First World War
* Effects of the First World War

## Class List

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* Professor:
* Christopher Polizano
* Students:
* Alex beta 16:14, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
* Abc123 06:55, Jun 29, 2005 (UTC)
* BarnacleKB 20:25, 1 Jul 2005 (UTC)
* Muhgcee 4 July 2005 02:12 (UTC)
* Master Thief Garrett 5 July 2005 04:20 (UTC)
* Sarken 15:26, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
* JBishop 1 Aug 2005 14:43 (UTC)
* Lazyquasar 19:52, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
* MateoP 05:41, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
* Pravin L Singh 21 February 2006
* PaddyC 22:52, 03 August 2006 (UTC)
* ObubbledO 19:35, 25 February 2009

| Educational level: this is a tertiary (university) resource.

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| Subject classification: this is a history resource.

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