HSTR 344A Lecture 6: HSTR 344A
7 Feb 2017
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Wwi was called the war to end all wars, called the great war after the conflict. Thursday, february 2, 2017 ended, called wwi after 1939 for convenience (less of a global conflict than. Wwii: historians have argued that the napoleonic wars were actually the first world wars. By early 1915, the scope of the war expands. Major german export was beer: german efforts to expand into a larger asian empire were thwarted. Tried to take the philippines from the usa didn"t work b/c. Germany had a relatively powerful squadron of ships, but the british asiatic fleet was more powerful. 23 august, 1914: japan declares war on germany: opportunity for japan to expand empire by taking german possessions while european powers were otherwise occupied. Graff von spee, sms scharnhorst and sms gneisenau, and smaller cruisers: attempted to sail around the world to get back to germany, in ships powered by coal that had limited range.
