Causes
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Alliance system
Germany's Blank Cheque
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Artillery
- Creeping Barrage
- German Howitzer (Big Bertha)
- Hydraulic Recoil
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Rationing, Saving supplies for war effort
Often impacts poor more than rich
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Role of colonial soldiers
Ottoman Empire in the war
Treaty of Versailles
War guilt clause
Armistice
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Wilhelm II's Weltpolitik, German Expansionism
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Dreadnoughts/battle ships (Jutland)
Submarines (unrestricted submarine warfare)
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Nationalism
Vilifying the enemy/Propaganda
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Carrier pigeons - communications
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Soldiers' morale
Hundred days battles
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Slide #14
Communications
Intercepted messages
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Role of women
Raising money for war through bonds
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Trench warfare
Slide #18
Mandatory conscription
Volunteer soldiers
Drafts
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French and German dispute over Alsace and Lorraine
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Fokker Scourge
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Saving and exporting supplies to war-stricken countries
Total war - civilians are responsible too
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No Man's Land
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Total war, war of attrition
Role of the Eastern front
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militarism
Slide #19
machine guns
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Supporting nationally produced goods
Anti-German sentiment
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Social/Political role of colonial holdings for European countries
Economic motives for colonial expansion/dispute
Militarism in Africa