In case your answer is "no", the time is ripe to start right now! Do not forget that the sources shall be scholarly, varied and shall include some monographs and papers from academic journals. If you will find any primary source (be it something published online), even better!
Make yourself sure to use the services of the faculty library and its database of books and online sources.
Blut und Boden; Risorgimento; unification of Germany;
national awakening movements in Central and Eastern Europe; basic features of
the ideology of socialism; Marxism; anarchism; European imperialism; philosophy
and culture of modernism in the late 19th/early 20th century Europe; Triple
Entente and Triple Alliance, the Balkan question, Ottoman Empire; socialism;
Marxism; anarchism; urbanisation; demographic growth and other demographic
changes;
At this point the assigned readings are chronologically arranged, albeit they overlap slightly so that they would connect nicely. Clark is very good in explaining how the future alliances developed. Gildea is good for background.