MMW 15 Lecture 3: Introduction to WWI

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 15
• Professor: Professor Kwak

Document Summary

Introduction: from last class, empire is not fundamentally about cultural exchange, rather it is a form of governance that requires constant force (3), world war i started in 1914 and ended in 1918 (4). War of empire: world war 1 as war of empires: violent clashes predate 1914, japanese expansionism predates 1914. Greek/british/french/italian/japanese/greek/romanian conflict in 1923 with treaty of lausanne. This led to the creation of turkey: irish civil war breaks out from 1922-1923, major unrest in punjab, egypt in spring 1919. Third afghan war imminent, and ireland also moving to intense insurgency: french fiercely combatting resistance in levant, indochina, *there is a way that we put boundaries around world war 1. In theory the nation state is broadly represented. 1930) challenges about who governments represent: acceleration in hard power, ex. India 953,000. (some other sources say 1. 5 million) non-imperial britain provided 6. 1 million by end of war: for france: already had 90k troops when wwi breaks out.