The Road to World War II
Like Duolingo, but for The Road to World War II. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
54 levels across 4 sections, about 108 minutes end to end, roughly 22 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Fragile Peace of 1919, Life Between the Wars, The World Starts to Fracture, and The Final Countdown. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in The Road to World War II
- France's goal of security through reparations
- Germany's status after the treaty
- Britain's goal of balance and empire
- Ethnic and territorial tensions
- The US and the Fourteen Points
- The conflicting goals of the Big Three
- The twenty-year armistice
- Massive casualties led to a public demand for 'someone to pay'
- The war destroyed the multi-ethnic empires that had stabilized Central Europe
- Why the 1918 ceasefire was perceived as a temporary pause
- Total economic mobilization meant the victors needed reparations to pay off war debts
- The vacuum left by fallen monarchies led to the rise of fragile new democracies
- How the scale of destruction changed expectations for the peace treaty
- The collapse of the old world order and the resulting power vacuum
- Germany was forced to sign a 'dictated peace' (Diktat) without negotiation
- Revolutionary Russia was isolated and not invited to the Paris Peace Conference
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives The Road to World War II the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Which of these best describes how the Treaty of Versailles left Germany?
Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.
Where The Road to World War II takes you
Discover why the 'war to end all wars' didn't bring peace. Follow the journey from the shaky truce of 1918 to the global explosion of 1939.
- 1
The Fragile Peace of 1919
- The End of the Great War
- Punishing the Losers
- Drawing New Lines on the Map
- The League of Nations Experiment
- 2
Life Between the Wars
- The Roaring Twenties
- When Money Lost Its Value
- The Great Depression Hits
- Desperate People and New Leaders
- Life Under a Dictator
- Art and Culture in a Changing World
- 3
The World Starts to Fracture
- Japan Looks for More Land
- Italy's Ambitions in Africa
- Germany Breaks the Rules
- 4
The Final Countdown
- Trying to Keep the Peace
- The Spanish Civil War Rehearsal
- The Secret Deal Between Enemies
- The Invasion of Poland
- Why the First War Caused the Second
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
The Road to World War II is taught in the The Professor style: clear, structured, thorough. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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