Painting titled The Menin Road, which depicts a battlefield scene from the First World War
Unit 7

Global Conflict 1914 to 1945 CE

The First and Second World Wars were separated by a period of uneasy peace. But the two wars and the intervening peace were entangled together. Should we study these three periods as a single connected conflict?

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Unit 7 Problem

What caused the global conflicts and atrocities from 1914 to 1945, and how did people experience this period of global war?

7.0 Unit 7 Overview

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7.1 Origins of World War

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7.2 Experiences and Outcomes

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7.3 Totalitarianism or Liberal Internationalism

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7.4 World War II

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