Description
This class takes a detailed look at the final year of World War I, and the events leading up to the 11 November Armistice. We will examine the competing strategies, assumptions and miscalculations, and tortuous path to the armistice in November 1918, an imposition of a fleeting vision of peace that engendered as many difficulties as it alleviated. We will focus on what was accomplished by the armistice, but more importantly within the context of the Twentieth Century, what was NOT settled – and how the latter brought about a second great conflict.