HST 198 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Zimmermann Telegram, Marxism
26 Oct 2016
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Bulk of fighting on western front was done by the british after the french mutiny. Reversion to unrestricted submarine warfare by germany got the u. s. in the war. In 1917 we didn"t really have a large army. It would take the u. s. at least a year to draft an army, train them, arm them and get them to europe. It wouldn"t be til 1918 before the u. s. could contribute a substantial amount of troops/presence. At this point, germany was suffering terribly. Germans were short of food, widespread malnutrition. German troops were being impacted by marxism. For the first time there is significant movement on the western front. But the german army used up all of its reserves in the process. U. s. bears a considerable part in the attack against germany. Hadn"t lost a foot of ground they were assigned to defend. These were african american soldiers, u. s. armies were still segregated but the.
