THE WORLD WARS

The primary sources deal with the nature of the worldwars and their impact on the millions of people who fought in them or were victims of them. The secondary sources differ in their views abut the impact on the West of the world wars. Concluding exercises have students assess questions such as "There really never was any single "West". The world wars pitted groups of Western nations with very different values against one another. Assess the validity of this statement."