Volume 1. Part I: Ancient Greece and Rome (500 BCE-500 CE)
What was the primary cause of the Peloponnesian war?
Why did Alexander the Great's empire fall apart so soon after his death?
Why was the Carthaginian General Hannibal so successful against Roman armies but ultimately defeated in his war against Rome?
Why did Julius Caesar prevail in the Caesarian-Pompeian Civil war yet ultimately lose support to the extent that he was assassinated by his own people?
What cause the fall of the Roman empire?
Part II: Middle Ages (500-1500)
What is the explanation for the rapid success of the Arab conquests in the hundred years after the death of Prophet Muhammad?
Did Charles Martel's victory in the Battle of Tours prevent the Islamic conquest of Christian Europe?
Why did the Crusades ultimately fail to retain Christian control of the Holy Land?
How did the Mongol invaders manager to conquer and rule over much of Asia in the 13th and 14th centures?
Why did Constantinople fall to the Ottomans in 1453?
Why did England win the major battles but France win the Hundred Years' war?
Part III: The emergence of modern Europe and the Americas (1500-1825)
Was the English civil war primarily a political rebellion, a constitutional struggle, or a religious conflict?
Did the Inca civil war play an important role in the Spanish conquest of the Inca empire?
Was the Thirty Years' war a religious or poltical conflict?
Was "Taxation without Representation" the primary cause of the American Revolution?
Could the Patriot side have prevailed in the American Revolutionary war without French assistance?
Was the French Revolution a direct result of the Enlightenment?
Does Napoleon Bonaparte deserve his reputation as a major military innovator and brilliant field commander?
Which side won the War of 1812?
What role did the Enlightenment play in sparking the Latin American revolutions?
Was the Congress of Vienna a diplomatic success?
Part IV: The rise of imperialism and nationalism (1825-1914)
Was the United States justified in annexing Texas and taking California from Mexico in its pursuit of Manifest Destiny?
Were the Opium Wars decisive in the history of modern China?
How was a relatively small British army able to conquer the subcontinent of India?
What was the single most important factor in bringing about the Crimean war?
Was slavery the principal cause of the American Civil war?
In what ways did African Americans affect the outcome of the American Civil War?
What was the primary reason for the Confederate defeat in the American Civil War?
Was Otto von Bismarck largely responsible for the unification of Germany in 1871?
Did the unification of Germany make a general European war inevitable?
Did the American Indian Wars constitute genocide?
What was the primary cause of the Spanish-American war?
Part V: The world at war (1914-1945)
What was the primary cause of World War I?
Was Germany's World War I submarine war campaign against nonmilitary shipping justified?
Is the Balfour Declaration of 1917 to blame for the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict?
Volume 2. Did the 1919 Paris Peace settlement and specifically the Treaty of Versailles with Germany make World War II inevitable?
Would the Republicans have won the Spanish Civil War if there had been no foreign intervention?
Would France and Great Britain have been better served to go to War with Germany in 1938?
What were the key factors that led to the Japanese decision to attack Pearl Harbor?
Did the requirement for unconditional surrender help or hinder the Allied effort in World War II?
Was Adolf Hitler the primary driving force behind the Holocaust, or would it have occurred without him?
Should the Allies have bombed Auschwitz?
Were the agreements reached at the Yalta conference an unneccessary giveaway to the Soviets?
Was the United States justified in dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Part VI: The Cold War (1945-1991)
Which power bears principal responsibility for starting the Cold War, the Soviet Union or the United States?
Have nuclear weapons prevented another catastrophic war since 1945?
Why did the Communist side defeat the Nationalists in the Chinese Civil War?
How has the debate over the "Right" to Palestine shaped the Arab-Israeli conflict?
How should repsonsibility be apportioned for the start of the Korean war?
Was President Truman justified in removing General Douglas MacArthur as commander of United Nations forces during the Korean war?
Was the Eisenhower administration justified in relying on massive retaliation as a defensive posture in the 1950s?
Has President Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex come true?
Was media coverage of the Tet Offensive the primary reason it was viewed as a major U.S. defeat for the United States?
Could the United States have won the Vietnam war?
What was the significance of the Soviet-Afghan war in the context of the Cold War?
Were Ronald Reagan's policies repsonsible for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War?
Part VII: The new millennium (1991-Present)
Should the U.S.-Led coalition have removed Saddam Hussein from power before ending the Persian Gulf War?
Was the international community justified in initially avoiding military action to prevent ethnic cleansing in Bosnia?
Was the 2003 U.S.-Led coalition invation of Iraq justified?
Was the U.S. goal of constructing a stable, democratic regime in post-2003 Iraq realistic?
Is it accurate to draw parallels between the Crusades of the Middle Ages in the Holy Land and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars of the early 21st century?
Did Post-Cold War policies pursued by the United States and other Nato powers contribute to Russia's increasingly aggressive international policies in the 2000s?
SHould women be allowed to serve in combat positions in the U.S. military?
Should the U.S. government reinstate the draft?
