The Great War: Character and Consequences
The Great War: Consequences
- The Fall of Four Empires [German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, Ottoman]
- The Weakening of the France and Great Britain & more vocal movements for colonial independence in India, in parts of French and British African colonial territories, in French Indo China
- Class leveling
- "Lost Generation" of young men and women (Vera Brittain; Erich Maria Remarque) (War Casualties)
- Disillusionment with Government: Loyalties in doubt
- Pacificism vs. the re-awakening of the marital spirit and the German quest
for revenge
- Pacificism in Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
[Film: 1930] Clip: "Pro Patria Mori" Clip: "Attack and Counter Attack"
- Pacificism in Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth (1933)
- Revival of matial spirit in Ernst Jünger's Strom of Steel (1921); Adolp Hitler's appeal to war veterans in the early days of his movement, and his ceaseless denunciation of the Versailles Treaty.
The Russian Revolution (1917-21 and beyond)
Peacemaking 1919