| This course covers a seminal event in history and an era crucial to understanding the contemporary world. It examines the global origins, conduct, and outcome of the First World War by studying not only warfare, but also the major movements and trends that contributed to the outbreak of war, the methods and technologies used to wage it, and the theaters across the world in which it took place. In addition to the Western and Eastern Fronts in Europe, cadets will study campaigns in the Alps, Balkan Peninsula, Turkey, Palestine, Mesopotamia, East Africa, West Africa, and the sea. Cadets will consider how the industrial revolution, colonialism, and nationalism contributed to the war, and how scientific, political, and economic discourse and innovation shaped it?s progress and conclusion. The course will also examine how participants chose to remember and commemorate the largest and deadliest war in human history up to that point, as well as how the war has shaped the world since 1918. |