# The World Wars

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Category: History
Slides: 19
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:20.175Z
Tags: history, world, wars

## Summary

From the Sarajevo pistol to the Hiroshima cloud — a single, broken arc. Key sections include: The Daily Catalog; Two Wars That Made the Twentieth Century; Contents; The Powder-Train of Europe; Lamps Going Out; Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele; A World War, Truly; Total War, Total Society; Three Revolutions in a Single Year; Versailles & Its Discontents.

## Slide Outline

1. The Daily Catalog
2. Two Wars That Made the Twentieth Century
3. Contents
4. The Powder-Train of Europe
5. Lamps Going Out
6. Verdun, the Somme, Passchendaele
7. A World War, Truly
8. Total War, Total Society
9. Three Revolutions in a Single Year
10. Versailles & Its Discontents
11. The Twenty Years' Crisis
12. War Returns
13. Where the War Was Decided
14. Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
15. The Shoah
16. Endgame in Europe
17. Hiroshima & Nagasaki
18. A New Order
19. Read & Watch

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