Problem 1. Why were nations and citizens around the world willing and even eager to undertake a global military conflict? What can this tell historians about the early-20th century?
Problem 2. How did decisions made at the Paris Peace Conference and formally agreed on at the Treaty of Versailles, 1919, leave some global problems unsolved? Identify one, explain the solution that was suggested, and whether or not the treaty succeeded or would succeed.
Problem 3. Why were the Russias' subjects, and some of its leadership, divided over their nations engagement in World War I?
Problem 4. Why did Lenin and the Bolshevik's revolution succeed, when prior efforts to oppose the Russian government had failed?
Problem 5. World leaders from the US, Britain, Germany, and the new Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, had to react dramatically to post-WWI global economic depression. Name one of them and what they did at the time, and discuss how they might respond to their nation's or the world's current post-Covid economic challenges.