Life Long Learning Academy
Winter 2013
W13-15: The War to End All Wars
Instructor: Daniel Stephens
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941-961-7850
Syllabus
January 7th : 1913-1914 The End of the Gilded Age: The American Civil War,
The Franco Prussian War, Blood and Iron, The Boer War, Imperial Land Grabs,
Russo-Japanese War, The Arms Race, Advancement in Artillery, Machine Guns,
and Warships. Ailing Empires: Austria-Hungary and Russia, Shifting and Complex
Alliances, The Black Hand and the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand.
January 14th: 1914-1915 The Lamps go Out All Over Europe: Mobilization,
Austria Declares War, Russia to Serbia, Germany Declares War, France to the
Rescue, The Schlieffen Plan, Plan XVII, Belgium is Violated, The Western Front,
1st Battle of the Marne, The Defense of Paris, 1st Ypres, Stalemate and the
Trenches. Champagne, Neuve Chapelle, 2nd Ypres: Loos and Vimy Ridge the use
of Gas as a Weapon, Ersatz! The Eastern Front: Galicia, Tannenberg, the Death
of an Army, Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Italy enters the war.
January 21st: 1915 Over the Top! Isonzo, Turkey and the Radicals, Britain
Attacks the Dardanelles, Gallipoli, The War in the Middle East, Unrestricted
Submarine Warfare, The Sinking of the Lusitania. Dueling Fleets, the Battle of the
Falklands, Japan on the Attack,
January 28th: 1915-1916 Ile Ne Passerant Pas !: Zeppelin Bombing of London,
British Conscription, The Execution of Edith Cavell, Verdun Bleeding France
White, Pétain and Nivelle, The Somme.
February 4th 1916-1917 Shackled to a Corpse: Jutland: Clash of Titans, The
Sinking of Britannic Last of the White Stars, Failure at Gallipoli, Churchill
Resigns, Germany in Africa, Lettow-Vorbeck, New Technology, Tanks, Air
Combat, Knights of the Sky, Russia in Crisis, the Tsar Takes over, Rasputin,
Germany and Lenin, the battle for the Suez, Mata Hari, Isonzo Failures.
February 11th 1917-1918 Over There: Wilson’s Isolationism, the Zimmerman
Telegram, The Renewal of Unrestricted Submarine Warfare, America Enters the
War, Black Jack Pershing, The Russian Revolution, Lenin returns, Red vs. White,
the October Revolution, T.E. Lawrence and Arbaqua, Ludendorff Takes Over the
Western Front, Nivelle’s Doomed Offensive, Mutiny in the trenches,
Passchendaele.
February 18th 1917-1918 One Mass Grave: Petain takes over, Pershing Foch and
Haig, The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, The Tsar is murdered, Isonzo gains, Austria
seeks peace, Death of the Red Baron, Ludendorff’s big push, German Morale,
Somme Offensive, Lys, Aisne and Château- Thierry, Belleau Woods, Victory in
the Middle East, T.E.’s dilemma, Amiens offensive, a Black Day for Germany, StMihiel Salient, Birth of the American Air Corps, Eddie Rickenbacker.
February 19th 1918-1919 The War to end all Wars?: Ludendorff on the Ropes,
Meuse-Argonne Offensive, American resolve, the Lost Battalion, Sergeant York,
Germany in Retreat, The Flanders Offensive, The Kaiser steps down, The eleventh
hour, Armistice, Germany Victorious?, Wilson’s 14 points, The treaty of
Versailles, The Big Four, Germany pays for the war, Wilson’s Disappointment,
How does this happen again? A Generation Lost.
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