World War and Civil Rights History

📋 Course Outline

1. Trench Warfare Conditions
2. Alliances and the First World War
3. Treaty of Versailles and Hitler's Rise
4. Nazi Antisemitism and the Holocaust
5. African American Civil Rights Progress

📖 1. Trench Warfare Conditions

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Disease in trenches: Disease in trenches refers to sickness spread by dirty conditions, including rotting remains, sewage, and unwashed soldiers.
• Trench fever: Trench fever is a painful disease caused by lice, starting with sudden severe pain and followed by high fever.
• Boredom in trenches: Boredom in trenches is the long, idle waiting that keeps soldiers confined and unable to properly exercise.

📝 Essential Points

• Trenches combined rotting corpses, sewage, and unwashed soldiers with poor diet and little sleep to worsen health.
• Brown rats, frogs, and lice were common in trenches and helped spread disease.
• Lice caused trench fever, which began with sudden severe pain and then high fever.
• Recovery from trench fever away from the trenches could take up to twelve weeks.
• Soldiers in trenches often had nothing to do for hours, staying bored in cramped conditions without exercise.

💡 Memory Hook

Disease + filth + lice → trench fever; boredom + confinement → long idle hours.

📖 2. Alliances and the First World War

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions