1. Modernity and the Road to War What is Modernity ? Conflicts associated between traditional values and new ideas

2. Agonized questions: The family Gender relationships Empire Religion Consequences of technology and progress Anti-semitism Militant nationalism

3. Accelerated pace of life… Private life Population pressure Reforming marriage Politics of sexual identity

5. New Sciences of the Modern Self: Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) Challenging accepted beliefs of unified, rational man The ID -- Libido, desires, instinctive Drives The EGO – Mediating force, in touch with reality The SUPER EGO – Force of conscience & social norms

7. Revolutions in Science & … Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Big Bang Theory of the origins of the universe Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) The discovery of radioactivity Nobel Prizes for mother and daughter

9. Modern Art: Henri Matisse – Fauvism Pablo Picasso – Cubism Georges Braque – Collage Art Nouveau – Arts and Crafts Mvmts. Musical Iconoclasm

11. Growing Tensions in Mass Politics Labor’s Expanding Power – Trade Unions The Battle for Suffrage -- Emily Pankhurst Growing resistance to imperialism Rising Anti-Semitism – Dreyfus Affair

12. Roads to War Germany’s Imperial Demands Crisis in the Balkans Sarajevo: the War erupts

14. Competing explanations of the origins of World War I The Mood of 1914: intense nationalism “victimhood” appealing to immediate feelings of patriotism and self-preservation

15. Competing explanations… The Short War Illusion –..A quick, cleansing thunderstom

16. Competing explanations… The Primacy of domestic politics Power elites vs. rising labor

17. Competing explanations… Germany opts for war: –Now or never –The Fisher controversy