HIST 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Indian Army During World War I, Zimmermann Telegram, E. H. Carr
Document Summary
1st world war: small role in us"s historical imagination compared to the second world war. How the imperial global system falls apart between 1914-1918, focused as a. First global industrial war due to the imperial powers of europe. Germany is unified and declared in the hall of versailles. Global in scope despite it being a european war, outside affect. Americas entailed in direct violence too, naval war, unrestricted u boat (submarine warfare) that leads the americans to get involved. 1915 sinking of lusitania when it is torpedoed and sunk. Zimmerman telegram: germany hitting up mexico to go to war. When us enters war for freedom of seas : uninterested in balance of power in europe. Not interested in the great powers but instead interested in freedom of seas. Middle east: interventions, trace the current problems in middle east to this world war. Indian expeditionary force november 1914 invades basrah and remains there until they get baghdad in 1917.
