Hist 350 B--A Global History of World War I

Reading Schedule

Feb. 3--Introduction: An Outline of the War
(plus theory of the course: building on knowledge)
Also--Talking through the first assignment

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Main_Page

Feb. 5--Some deep background on Origins

    Read Tooley Chapter 1

Extra: Irish issues

Feb. 7--Other Interpretations: The Schlieffen Plan and Other Plans
Annika Mombauer on causes of the war

https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/the-debate-on-the-origins-of-world-war-one

Sean McMeekin's recent book on the Russians and the origins of the war: Read everything in this Google Books book up to page twelve. This is includes the opening chapters, the little quotations, etc.
https://books.google.com/books?id=vQF099JYW_EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=russia+and+the+first+world+war&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiEh-Hjq7HnAhUN2qwKHZ09DMkQ6AEwAXoECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=russia%20and%20the%20first%20world%20war&f=false

Also read
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Russian_Memorandum_of_Advice_to_Serbia

Feb. 10--The Assassination and July Crisis: To the Outbreak of War

Samuel Foster entry:
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/sarajevo_incident
Testimony of one of Prinzip's friends:
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Assassination_of_Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand

Franz Josef to Wilhelm, July 5, 1914

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Autograph_Letter_of_Franz_Joseph_to_the_Kaiser
Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Austro-Hungarian_Ultimatum_to_Serbia_(English_Translation)

Feb. 12--War: Eastern Front and Western Front Tooley, Chapter 2

Feb. 14--In the Trenches: A First Look--Us vs. Them; the Christmas Truce, a geography of the trenches, and more.
  Read Ashworth excerpt
Edmund Blunden,  excerpt from Undertones of War, pp. 15 to 41.
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55923/page/n15/mode/2up

Richard Marshall, "The British Army’s fight against Venereal Disease in the ‘Heroic Age of Prostitution"
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/body-and-mind/the-british-army%E2%80%99s-fight-against-venereal-disease-in-the-%E2%80%98heroic-age-of-prostitution%E2%80%99/

Feb. 17--Allied Diplomacy: Italy, the Ottoman Empire, Rumania, and More
Italian entry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire_during_World_War_I#Entry_into_World_War

Feb. 19--Atrocities:  From Belgium to Russia to Turkey
Read--Tooley Piece from Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe:

Feb. 24--The Blockade and Unlimited Submarine Warfare & Introduction to WWI Art and Poetry

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/art
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nevinson-la-mitrailleuse-n03177

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/14/art-apocalypse-otto-dix-first-world-war-der-krieg-in-pictures

Feb. 26--Mobilizing the Home Fronts: An Overview
 Tooley, Chapter 3

Feb. 28--Empires and the War I

Eric Manela entry:
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/empire
Rustin Gates entry:

Mar. 2--More Empires and the War

Santanu Das entry:

Yücel Yanıkdağ entry:
https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/ottoman_empiremiddle_east

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/responses_to_the_war_india

be sure to show pic of Menin Gate

Optional :  Anne Samson entry:

Mar. 4--The Green Fields Beyond:  the Stalemate 1915:

Capture of Przemysl

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Capture_of_Przemysl
Ypres II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Ypres
Gallipoli, from the New Zealand government site. Please read page 2 (the link below) and read through page 7 (each is roughly three book pages long)
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/the-gallipoli-campaign/gallipoli-in-brief

Mar. 6--The United States as Neutral

Short page-long appreciation of Hoover in WWI by the Hoover Institute at Stanford:

https://hoover.archives.gov/exhibits/years-compassion-1914-1923
Watch this lecture by Hoover scholar George Nash. You can skip the long intro by Thomas Schwartz and start at about 6:32. Please listen to all the rest of the lecture by Nash.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?462916-1/herbert-hoovers-world-war-relief-work
Randolph Bourne essay, "War is the Health of the State," 1918
https://www.panarchy.org/bourne/state.1918.html

Mar. 9--27--EXTENDED Spring Break.  Until further notice, class meetings will be on Zoom.

From this point on, I will only give selected reading quizzes. I will send these out via email, and I would like you to email your short response back to me by the time of our Zoom meetings for each class.

The Fussell book quizzes will be somewhat more involved, and I will send them out ahead of time too.

(some of this material made into the second edition of my Great War book, but it is difficult enough that reading that looking over it a second time will help, or at least not harm anyone!
Also, Q and A on how the courses and assignments will work.

Mar. 25--Propaganda, Censorship, Surveillance
Tooley, Chapter 4

ATTN: HERE IS THE EXTRA LITTLE PIECE FOR THE CLASS LECTURE:  PropagandaWWI.pptx

Mar. 30--Interning Enemy Aliens and Others
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31477795
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/31481569

Short ppt lecture (with sound)  Please look/listen as a part of today's material.

Annotated Bibliography will be due on Tuesday, March 31, 11:59pm via Turnitin

Apr. 1--Women At War: Factories, Government Work, and More

https://spartacus-educational.com/Wfirst.htm
and

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/55174180  farm labor, US
And bit on brothels

Apr. 3--NURSES

Wikipedia on Vera Brittain:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Brittain

And from Mary Borden's fine book The Forbidden Zone, please read the chapter called "Enfant de Malheur"
http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Borden2/fz.html

Apr. 6--The War Deepens: Breakthrough: The Somme Campaign

Class Discussion of Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory, first half.  Reading Quiz will count x 3

Before or after class of Apr 8, ppt with sound: "Verdun and the Somme"

 (it is just under 30MB, so give it a minute or two to load)

Apr. 8--Breakthrough: Brusilov and Jutland Tooley, Chapter 5

Apr. 10--More discussion of Fussell, this time second half.  Reading Quiz will count x 3
no need to read: this is for explanation in class only.

Second Paper is due on Friday., Apr 17, at 5:00pm via Turnitin.com

Apr. 13--The United States Enters the War--I
Three years ago for my blog on WWI, I wrote a series of essays about the US entry to the war. Please read four parts of the series for this class and two for the next. They appear in reverse order, so start here to read the first one:
https://twentiethcenturyviolence.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2017-02-05T11:09:00-08:00&max-results=7&start=4&by-date=false
and then navigate to newer posts and read them in order. The titles are number and include the title: "These Deeply Momentous Things," which is phrased used by Woodrow Wilson
You can also just navigate from this page:
https://twentiethcenturyviolence.blogspot.com/2016/12/
AND

https://mises.org/library/bourne-war

Apr. 15--The Other and the War: The Irish in the British War Effort; African Americans in the US War; India and the Empire's War.
No reading: but be reading Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory.

Apr. 17--Passchendaele, the Italian Fronts and Other Fronts/Also some comments on loans and bankers and war finance
Read Tooley, "Merchants of Death Revisited: Armaments, Bankers, and the First World War," 2005
https://cdn.mises.org/19_1_4.pdf

Apr. 20--The Bolshevik Revolution--I

Read the Spartacus Educational article:
https://spartacus-educational.com/RUSbolsheviks.htm

Powerpoint from Apr. 20  class. Just turn off the sound, or not.

Apr. 22--The Bolshevik Revolution--II
Read the Spartacus article:
https://spartacus-educational.com/RUScivilwar.htm

Apr. 24--Technologies of War: Military, Medical, Transport, and Communications
No reading

Apr. 27--War in the Middle East, 1916 to 1918: the Ottomans and their enemies

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_Balfour_Declaration
https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Sykes-Picot_Agreement

Apr. 29--The United States and the Allies: "LaFayette: We are Here!"
Either before or after class, please read the Wikipedia entry on the American Expeditionary Forces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces

AND see this short documentary. It is a bit bombastic in spots, but the overview is pretty accurate for brief video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rg3a4EAfJQ

May 1--The Kaiser's Offensive and the Allied Hundred Days Offensives

  Tooley, Chapter 7

Third Paper is called off. Two papers total

May 4--Armistice

Read two somewhat longer entries from my more recent blog:  "Diktat 1919" and "On the Morning of November 11, 1918." (maybe read the Nov. 11 piece first
https://twentiethcenturyviolence.blogspot.com/

May 6--Peacemaking at Versailles

Please read the first SEVEN entries in my old blog, Design of a Violent Century. The entries are each only 2 or 3 pages long. The first was posted on Jan. 39, 2009.
http://parispeace1919.blogspot.com/2009/01/

May 8--The Costs of War:  A Violent Century
Tooley, Chapter 8