HIST 1150 Lecture 2: 2. World War 1
18 Jan 2017
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Ww1 stats: 65. 8 million men fought, 9 million+ men died (not including civilians) Average of 6,046 deaths every day: 15 million+ men were injured (physical + psychological, collapse of (empire, creation of (nation states) Economic + social problems: unemployment, huge debts, hyper-inflation (germany, world(cid:495)s first communist revolution (cid:523)bolshevik seizure of power in. Russia november 1917: total war mobilization of all of a state(cid:495)s resources. Turns middle class to the radical right fascism: assassination of archduke franz ferdinand june 28, 1914, gavrilo princip assassin; part of the black hand (serbian national movement opposed takeover of serbia) Killed while in a car in sarajevo, bosnia: usa emerges as global economic power, 9. 5 million refugees in europe by 1926, austria-hungary blames serbia, wants action against them. Germany gives them permission to do whatever against serbia. (cid:494)we have your back(cid:495: serbia rejects ultimatum, austria-hungary declares war on them on.
