World War 1 QLS Level 3

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