HIST 3351H Lecture 3: World War One Lecture- Sept. 24
5 Apr 2016
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Briish foreign secretary, sir edward grey- ww1 created the instability that would lead to the second world war. Trench warfare, machine guns, lamethrowers, tanks, airplanes, and poison gas. Many europeans looked to the franco-prussian war for signs of how the great war would be: assumed it would be short, and intense, assumed the invenion of new lethal weapons would make it even quicker. Combinaion of new weapons and trenches the war would be long and horriic. Tanks were developed to try and break the stalemate in the trenches. New type of soldier emerged: image of exhausted, covered in dirt, new psychological terrors. Noions of peace began to inluence how future wars were to be fought. Protect the soldiers and the civilians: wounded and captured soldiers were to be cared for, civilians and medical personal were not to harmed. Were not to use poison or poisonous weapons to atack. It wasn"t military against military it was people against people (culture)
