HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Trench Warfare, General Treaty, Total War
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Hst 112 | march 9, 2016 | week 7. *****march 7th was an exam day there are no notes for that day. The breaking of armies, peace, and the treaty of versailles (1917-1919) Main argument: total war precipitated a political, economic, social, and cultural crisis throughout europe. The treaty of versailles exacerbated this crisis, and liberal democracy and capitalism failed to find solutions, setting the stage for the rise of communism (bolshevism), Fascism, and national socialism, and the brutality of wwii. A second thirty years" war: continuities wwi wwii. Role of germany: treaty of versailles, liberal capitalism totalitarianism, wwii, holocaust. Total war: trench warfare and industrial killing, the home front economic mobilization the problem of labor: children, women, subjects. The war, for all its devastating appearances, only seems to be destructive . At least those killed by german bayonets will have died a beautiful death, in noble battle .
