HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Trench Warfare, Plan Xvii, Mass Mobilization
21 Oct 2018
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Ghter plane with machine gun ring through the propellers. Main points : the great war introduced the world to the mass mobilization of societies the. Takeaways : mass mobilization of whole societies, the use of new weaponry, the scale of death, and imperialists" deployment of colonial troops are characteristics of a new kind of. Count alfred von schlieffen : german eld marshal and strategist, develops schlieffen plan, germany would knock out france rst, within six weeks, then focus on russia. Modern war: mobilizing the home front : total war - mobilizes all resources of society to ght war, also includes the targeting of infrastructures and sometimes non-combatants. Key terms : lusitania, zimmerman telgram, w. e. b. Dubois: espionage and sedition acts, vladmir lenin/bolsheviks, woodrow wilson/fourteen points, treaty of versailles, league of nations, self-determination. Main points : the great war destroyed entire empires.
