"Lec 15 - The Home Front" France Since 1871 (HIST 276) 1917 is a critical moment in World War I, as the Bolsheviks seize power in Russia and Woodrow Wilson leads the U.S. into war on the side of the Allied powers. Although morale held steady on the home front in France, there were multiple mutinies and strikes as the war progressed. These mutinies were not in favor of German victory; rather, they were in protest of corruption at home, in the form of incompetence and profiteering. Literary and historical records of World War I bear witness to the difficulty faced by soldiers in reentering civilian life after returning home. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Advice for the Midterm Exam 04:48 - Chapter 2. The Turning Point in 1917: The Russian Revolution and American Involvement 17:05 - Chapter 3. Social Tensions of War: Profiteers, Women and Refugees 24:19 - Chapter 4. Mutinies and Strikes: Popular Revolt on the Front and at Home 36:53 - Chapter 5. Ludendorff's Last Push: The German Offensive of 1918 41:30 - Chapter 6. The End at Last: The Human Cost of War Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses This course was recorded in Fall 2007.
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Lec 1 - Introduction - France Since 1871
Lec 2 - The Paris Commune and Its Legacy
Lec 3 - Centralized State and Republic
Lec 4 - A Nation? Peasants, Language, and French Identity
Lec 6 - The Waning of Religious Authority
Lec 7 - Mass Politics and the Political Challenge from the Left
Lec 8 - Dynamite Club: The Anarchists
Lec 9 - General Boulanger and Captain Dreyfus
Lec 10 - Cafés and the Culture of Drink
Lec 11 - Paris and the Belle Époque
Lec 12 - French Imperialism (Guest Lecture by Charles Keith)
Lec 13 - The Origins of World War I
Lec 16 - The Great War, Grief, and Memory (Guest Lecture by Bruno Cabanes)
Lec 18 - The Dark Years: Vichy France