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HISTORY
OF ENGLAND
History 211: Topic 15
Britain and the Two World Wars
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History 211 First Page I
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Summer Syllabus I
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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,
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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? |
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David Roberts, Douglas R. Bisson, Chapter
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