HIST 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Zimmermann Telegram, Passenger Ship
18 Oct 2016
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A state of stability between competing forces. Equilibrium among countries or alliances to prevent any one entity from becoming too strong. Later replaced with the league of nations. Advances in technology, first war to see: Commanders failed to adapt tactics to changes in technology. Used frontal assaults against entrenched positions with far deadlier weapons. First war to involve so many nations in the world. Warfare in which soldiers fought each other from trenches and armies traded huge losses of human life for pitifully small land gains. Fighting from trenches with a no man"s land between them (space between opposing trenches), trading huge losses for little territorial gain. First created to prevent fights against each other. Great britain, france, russia, and later japan and italy. U. s. representative at the paris peace conference. American president, asked congress to declare war and enter war with allies. Sent a strong protest to germany because they sunk lusitania.
