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2012-2013 Academic Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

HI 361 - The Age of Blood and Iron. Europe, 1871-1918

Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Credit Hours: 3

Survey of Europe in the period. This course begins with a discussion of the 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War. It then successively examines social and economic developments, political developments in the separate European states, imperialism, the division of Europe into two hostile alliance systems, the arms race, the fundamental and immediate causes of the First World War, and the war itself. Note: Region: Europe.