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B013883 - MILITARY HISTORY
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Suggested readings
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Course program
Academic Year 2017-18
Course year
Second year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Political and Social Sciences (DSPS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
M-STO/04 - CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
26/02/2018 ⇒ 01/06/2018
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B019290 - STORIA DELL'AMERICA DEL NORD
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in POLITICAL SCIENCES
Curriculum STUDI INTERNAZIONALI
B019290 - STORIA DELL'AMERICA DEL NORD
3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in POLITICAL SCIENCES
Curriculum STUDI INTERNAZIONALI
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
American intervention in the Great war
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
AA.VV, 1917. Over there in Italy. American intervention in the Great War, by the Italian Society of Military History, Rome, Nadirmedia, 2017; L. Saiu, United States and Italy in the Great War (1914-1918). Florence, Olschki, 2003,
Other teaching materials will be provided directly by the teacher.
Other teaching materials will be provided directly by the teacher.
Learning Objectives
Knowledge of the history of relations between the United States, Europe and Italy during the first half of the twentieth century with particular reference to the years of the First World War.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of the English language
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures
Further information
Those who want to take North American History and Military History examination will be provided with specific arguments and separate texts.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination. For non-attendants, a written text of about 20 pages with footnotes and bibliography is also required
Course program
The course will first examine the most important aspects of the years of American neutrality, President Wilson's efforts to reach a shared peace among the belligerent European nations and the reasons for the United States to go to war. It will also consider the US military organization on the eve of its participation in the conflict and the heated debate between pacifists and interventionists who animated the American society of the time. It will also address the American commitment to the battlefields, particularly the French ones, and the US support for the Italian territory, above all on the humanitarian level. It will also address the theme of Wilson's fortune in Italy on the eve of peace agreements.