Course description
This course will allow you to study when and where you want, at your own pace. All coursework can be submitted by email making it simple and hassle-free. All of the materials will be delivered to you so it couldn’t be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors are always a click away by email, giving you advice and helping you through your course.
Course Content
Unit 1 Pre-War European Continent Immediately Pre-1914
- Characteristics
- Terms of the treaty of London
- International tension
- State of military technology pre-war
Unit 2 Outbreak: 1914
- Assassination of the Archduke
- System of alliances
- “The war of movement”
- Trench warfare
- Movements
Unit 3 1915
- Characteristics of trench warfare
- “Mechanised warfare”
- Innovations
- The sinking of the Lusitania
- Chemical Weapons
Unit 4 1916
- Gallipoli
- Evacuation of the Gallipoli Peninsula
- “War of attrition”
- Battle of the Somme
- Battle of Verdun
Unit 5 1917
- New forms of warfare
- Role of new machines of war
- American entry into the war
- Home front
Unit 6 1918
- German counteroffensives of 1918
- Closing phase of the war
- Germany and the central powers collapsed in 1918
- Treaty of Versailles
- Post war events
- Setting the scene for WW2
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