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The First World War
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 4, 2018 (go to class or lectures)
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August 1914
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didn't destroy a world that was at its          of civilization, but rather an arrangement that was already
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in trouble
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beset by                   
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plagued by                    between regimes
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plunged into the first truly              war in a century
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since the                      Wars into Russia and Egypt
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war went global for one fundamental reason
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1. it was a war between global               
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2. a war of          societies
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already organizations that implied that entire societies were going to be inducted into war, i.e.            war
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will have to mobilize riches from their                  as well as from citizens at home
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the old world regimes would have to harness energy from new world resources
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sparked by a conflict in the               
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where the struggles were most intense between rival European and Middle Eastern powers
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Hapsburg vs.                empire
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an archaic confrontation
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it was caused by ramped up                  rivalry
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free-trade empires locked in rivalries with each other
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put more resources into defense structures
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spiraling upwards as              military states
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the gap between expectations and what happened
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that people would see some initial decisive victory on the battlefield and that the war would be over by Christmas
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with mass communications being used,                  was whipped up to high levels
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combatants: 65 million
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            : 15 million
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Germany: 10.6 million
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France: 8 million
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Britain: 5.25 million
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it turned out to be a long, protracted war for three reasons
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1. the balance of forces were remarkably         
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had not calculated that the interlocking mechanism made quite            adversaries
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by 1917 the war efforts had grounded to a stand still
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2. the nature of war had               
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the old universe of                men clashing with each other, artilleries supporting set-piece battles from behind the lines leading to a one or two day battle that would end with victory for one side or the other
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what the combatants discovered was that heavy investment in military could halt even the most powerful army
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led to                     -scale killing
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advent of barbed wire
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introduction of machine gunning
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the introduction of chemical weapons
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armies could get stopped or mowed down in the process of their attacks
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there was no more gentlemanly hand-to-hand combat
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one doesn't even see one's                   
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3. the targeting of non-combatants
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1915 the sinking of the British                    by a German submarine
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1915 Zeppelin bombing raids of London
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total war meant total destruction
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9 million casualties
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vast resources were being spent to            economies
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submarines became a routine practice
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one reason the entry of the U.S. was significant was that it helped to form a more effective blockade of Axis powers
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all countries had problems with scarcities and inflation
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economic warfare was a financial war
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the country that had the most difficulties                its war efforts was Russia
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