Identify and explain the ‘chain-ganging' of alliances which led to World War I. Provideexamples of how this worked during World War I and explain why World War I appears to havebeen inevitable.
Identify and explain the elements of both preemptive and preventive war found in theinitiation of World War I. You should spend a paragraph on each of these. You willneed to explain what is meant by each of these types of wars (i.e., how is a preemptivewar different than a preventive war) and provide a concrete example of each.
Identify and explain twospecific examples of how misperceptions of the threat of Germanycaused the European countries to fail to effectively balance Nazi Germany before World War II. In addition to identifying and explaining these examples, identify and explain their importance inleading to World War II.
Identify and explain twocomponents (one paragraph for each) of how the Identityperspective played out in World War II. For example, you could spend one paragraphlooking at how the deep roots of American isolationism prevented the US from gettinginvolved in WWII sooner.