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Verdun and the Somme

1. What adjectives would you use to describe the scenes in the program segment? Which scenes affected you the most and why? Did anything in the segment change the way you feel about war? If so, how?

2. What caused the psychological scars referred to in the program segment? How would you describe those scars?

3. If you were a soldier in this war, how do you think your experiences might have changed your attitudes toward military, political, or religious leaders? How might the attitudes toward authority that people expressed in the program have affected society after the war?

4. How do you think people viewed war after World War I? Consider the perspectives of soldiers, civilians, and military and political leaders. How do you think they coped with their feelings about war? How do you think those who were against war tried to prevent it from happening again?