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The Great War

Instructed by Robert Holden

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After Wilson was re-elected as President in 1916 with the campaign slogan “He Kept Us Out of War!”, How did the U.S. get involved in its first major overseas conflict in Europe?

We will watch and discuss, a film, titled, The Great War - An in-depth discussion of what, sadly, later became known as World War One; its causes and after effects on the world. The film, “The Great War” tells a rich and complex story of the war through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and American troops who came to be known as doughboys”. Scenes from the ORIGINAL B&W classic, 1930 film “All Quiet on the Western Front”

(The latest iteration of this film won an Academy Award and is available on Netflix. If you haven’t seen it; Beware, it is accurate but gruesome!) will also be shown and discussed. This war and its eventual peace, actually created the conditions for World War Two.

Holden will bring (some) of his large collection of WW I objects; helmets, hats, badges, medals currencies, books, etc.

Mr. Robert Holden is a retired Ocean City Gifted/talented teacher (ret.-2006) and retired Senior Adjunct Professor of History, teaching WC 1, WC 2, and his own created Holocaust and Genocide Studies Course at ACCC’s Cape May County campus. (ret. -2016)

He is on the board of the SJHC, the HPSUT and the Seaville Friends Meeting.

He has published several secondary history curriculum guides and two books, Upper Township and its Ten Villages and Visas to Shanghai (about the Chinese diplomat, Feng-Shan Ho who saved thousands of Viennese Jews during the Holocaust by writing them exit visas), both of which are available to check out from the library.

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