HISTORY OF ENGLAND
 History 211:  Topic 15
Britain and the Two World Wars

British World War I Memorial

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Identification Items
While reading Chapters 27-28 and 29 of your textbook, watch for the following items.  When you find the item in Chapters 30-31, identify the object or person. 
Sir Edward Grey, British Expeditionary Force, Triple Entente, Triple Alliance, "encirclement", Neutrality League, General Schlieffen, General Moltke, General Jofre, Sir John French, Lord Kitchener, Gallipoli Campaign, Asquith, Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Haig, Lord Haldane, Argonne Forest, "coupon election", Treaty of Versailles,
Easter Monday, William Butler Yates, Sir Edward Carson, Irish Volunteers, Sinn Fenn,
 Irish Republican Brotherhood, Dail Eireann, Eamon de Valera, Easter Rebellion, Michael Collins, Irish Republican Army,  Bloody Sunday, John Maynard Keynes, Trade Union Congress, Nonconformists, Ramsay MacDonald, Zinoviev Letter,  Neville Chamberlain, T. S. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Virginia Woolf, Austen Chamberlian, Anthony Eden, Luftwaffe,  Operation Lion,  blitzkrieg,  Bismark, General Rommel, General Montgomery,
Topics for Study
The following essay questions should be guides for your reading of Chapters 27-28 and 29.  The following essay questions will be included on the Third Exam.  You will write two essays on the third  exam.  You will choose your exam essays.  
1.  Explain the origins of the Triple Alliance and of the Triple Entente and describe how these contributed as causes of World War I.
2..  Discuss the immediate causes for the outbreak of the war in 1914.
3.  Analyze the territorial settlement of the Peace of Versailles,.  Was it realistic?
4.  Discuss the impact of World War I on Great Britain.
5.  Describe in detail the social, economic, political challenges Great Britain faced in the immediate post-World I period.
6.  What specific programs were offered by the political parties in Great Britain to resolve the post-world War I problems, and how were they implemented?
7.  Describe the "Irish Question" as it exist4ed early in the 20th century.  How did the British government attempt to resolve it?
Reading Assignment
Clayton Roberts, David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson,  Chapter 27-28-29
 

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