HIST 3125 - First World War

3 credit hours

Prerequisite: Six hours of 1000-1999 HIST courses. Explores the causes of the war; the conflict’s vast geographic extent; the dramatic changes in combat brought by such weapons as improved field artillery, poison gas, airplanes, and submarines; the war’s reworking of the values and structures of western civilization; the war’s long-lasting ripple effects in the Middle East, the former Russian Empire, Africa, the Pacific, and the newly powerful United States.

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