The Great War
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Chapter 33
THE GREAT WAR
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NOT A SUMMER WAR • Expectations for a brief, glorious war
• Battle of the Marne demonstrated a clear change in warfare
• Western Front
• Trench warfare
• Italy switched sides
• Four year stalemate
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NEW TECHNOLOGY
• Machine guns
• Barbed wire
• Airplanes
• Poison gas
• Tanks
• U-boats
• Zeppelins
• Old techniques remained, increased casualties
• No Man’s Land
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EASTERN EUROPE• Battle lines more fluid
• GER gained SE Europe
• RUS pressed into northern/central Europe, pushed back by 1915
• Phenomenal casualties (1.7 m killed, 76% of forces were casualties)
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TOTAL WAR• A nation had to be destroyed for a war to be won
• Increased power of government
• Economic controls – planning boards, rationing
• Censorship, propaganda, restriction of liberties
• Increased taxes
• Draft, longer terms of service as war dragged on
• Increased number of women in work place, serious (though far from complete) changes in attitudes
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CONFLICT OUTSIDE OF EUROPE• Colonies dragged into the war
• Japan – 8/15/1914 – took over German colonial possessions in Asia
• 21 Demands – desire to make China a Japanese protectorate
• Attempts to gain German colonies in Africa was much more costly
• Ottoman Empire – strategic location
• Gallipoli – massive Allied failure – 250,000 casualties
• Increased national identities
• Arab revolts weakened Empire (Lawrence of Arabia)
• Armenian Massacre – 1915-1917
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RUSSIA• war exacerbated problems that already existed
• Losses in war, troop mutinies, Czar abdicated in 1917
• Power struggle between provisional government and Petrograd Soviet
• Many popular reforms
• Failed to end war or redistribute land
• VI Lenin (1870-1924)
• Recognized support for the Germans
• Overthrew provisional government – Nov. 1917
• Treaty of Brest-Litovsk – March 3, 1918
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US INVOLVEMENT• Slow change of US public opinion
• Economic involvement with Allies
• Submarine warfare
• Lusitania (two years prior to declaration of war)
• April 6th, 1917 – Declaration of War against Germany
• Wilson “to make the world safe for democracy”
• Helped break stalemate
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ANGST ON THE HOME FRONT• Blockades led to shortages
• Soldiers mutinied on both sides
• 1918 – last German offensive
• Running out of money, materials, and people
• Revolts at home, kaiser abdicated
• Weimar Republic declared
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SURRENDER• Bulgaria – Sept 30, 1918
• Ottoman Empire – Oct. 20, 1918 – armistice
• Austria-Hungary – Nov. 4, 1918
• Germany – Nov. 11, 1918
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AFTER THE WAR • 15 million dead
• 20 million wounded
• Millions died after the war due to deprivation and hardship
• Spanish influenza –
• 20 million dead
• Truly a pandemic