lecture 1. The century's initial catastrophe

lecture 2. Europe in 1914

lecture 3. Towards crisis in politics and culture

lecture 4. Causes of the war and the July crisis, 1914

lecture 5. The August madness

lecture 6. The failed gambles : war plans break down

lecture 7. The western front experience

lecture 8. Life and death in the trenches

lecture 9. The great battles of attrition

lecture 10. The eastern front experience

lecture 11. The southern fronts

lecture 12. War aims and occupations

lecture 13. Soldiers as victims

lecture 14. Storm troopers and future dictators

lecture 15. The total war of technology

lecture 16. Air war

lecture 17. War at sea

lecture 18. The global reach of the war

lecture 19. The war state

lecture 20. Propaganda war

lecture 21. Endurance and stress on the home front

lecture 22. Dissent and its limits

lecture 23. Remobilization in 1916-1917

lecture 24. Armenian massacres : tipping into genocide

lecture 25. Strains of war : Socialists and Nationalists

lecture 26. Russian revolutions

lecture 27. America's entry into the war

lecture 28. America at war: over there and over here

lecture 29. 1918: the German Empire's last gamble

lecture 30. The war's end: emotions of the Armistice

lecture 31. Toppled thrones: the collapse of empires

lecture 32. The Versailles Treaty and Paris Settlement

lecture 33. Aftershocks: Reds, Whites, and Nationalists

lecture 34. Monuments, memory, and myths

lecture 35. The rise of the mass dictatorships

lecture 36. Legacies of the Great War.