World War I
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Table of Contents
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"...represents the chickens coming home to roost for imperialism; in other words, the cultural arrogance and racism that led Europeans to dominate non Europeans in turn led them to fight themselves in 1914. Likewise, the technology that Europeans employed against non-Europeans came to be used against themselves as well...."
Key Terms
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Key Terms
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Guided Viewing Questions
- How did trench warfare come to characterize the Western Front? What factors made trench warfare a bloody stalemate?
- How did the Eastern Front differ from the Western Front?
- What factors caused Russia to experience a revolution in 1917 and then leave the war in 1918?
- Why did the United States enter the war in 1917?
- What impact did the war have on non-Western areas of the world such as Asia, the Middle East and Africa?
- Why did the end of the war not result in a stable peace that followed?