 |  A History of the Modern World, 9/e R R Palmer,
Yale University
Joel Colton,
Duke University
Lloyd Kramer,
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
The First World War
Learning ObjectivesChapter 17 teaches students about:
| The causes of WWI, which ranged from the crisis in the Balkans that set off the war to the tensions created by the alliance system. |
| | | | The course of the war on land and at sea, resulting in a stalemate for several years. |
| | | | The withdrawal of the Russians from the conflict. |
| | | | The United States' renunciation of neutrality and subsequent mobilization, which turned the tide against the Germans. |
| | | | The collapse of the German empire and the establishment of the Weimar Republic. |
| | | | The impact of the war on the role of government in national economies, and the increasing adherence to the idea of economic equality. |
| | | | The shift in economic growth and influence globally as Europe suffered from inflation while the United States and other regions rapidly industrialized. |
| | | | The sense of crisis in the ideals of progress and Western civilization provoked by the experiences of war. |
| | | | Woodrow Wilson's dream of creating an international regulatory body to prevent future conflicts. |
| | | | Allied demands of reparations and German resistance to such demands during the peace negotiations. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education