HIST 1351 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Shortage, American Expeditionary Forces, Red Scare
Document Summary
Total war: all hands are on deck; the government steps in in a big way to manage the war efforts. Woodrow wilson had a campaign of keeping the u. s. out of war. European origins of the war: imperialism, alliances. Germany was the arch enemy of france and great britain: nationalism. You"re focused on your country and it severe cases you think that your country is superior to all other countries. He is assassinated by a bosnian surb: the shooter was angry that austria had annexed bosnia because it had a lot of surbs that were also annexed. Serbia is blamed for assassination and so austria-hungary declares war. Germany is ready to wage war against france and the people who studied this war thought it would go over fairly quickly because of new technology (ex: railroad, telephone, radio, etc. ). But instead it kind of stopped inside the french borders. They pushed through belgium which was a neutral country.
