►  How does the role of industrialization and capitalism in England and Germany become an underlying cause of World War One?
►  How does the two great alliances in Europe set the stage for war?
►  How does the enormous European arms race feed the slide to war?
►  How does ethnic rivalries and the rise of nationalism help ignite the war?
►  On both sides, how does the class differences between the upper class generals, and the lower class front line soldiers contribute to the war's unimaginable slaughter?
►  How does the failure of the Germans to take Paris lead to a drastic change in the nature of the war?
►  What military technology and tactics make the war a killing machine? 
►  In what way does the war radically change the nature of cultural expression in the arts?
►  In what ways does the European countries which won the war, also lose it?
 ►  Although reelected with the slogan, "He kept us out of the war," how does President Wilson's actions lead to the US entry into the war?
►  Why is fighting for freedom of the seas, the official reason for entering the war, a myth, and what role does economics and Wilson's personality play?
►  Strategically, could we have stayed out of the war, and if as a consequence, Germany won, could we have lived with this? 
 ►  What significant changes in world history would be likely if Germany won?
►  After the war ended, how is it that the "3 tired old men" of the US, England, and France alone decided the future of the world?
► What are Wilson's 14 points to ensure peace, and to what extent are they implemented?
►  Why is Wilson mostly responsible for the failure of the US Congress to ratify the peace treaty -- the Treaty of Versailles?
►  Why is the failure of the Treaty of Versailles a paradox in respect to its goals for Germany?