HIST 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Totalitarianism, Armoured Train, Total War
10 Aug 2016
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Total war (ian f. w. beckett) page #254-259: In the first world war, the central powers comprised imperial germany, austria-hungary, Ottoman turkey (from october 1914) and bulgaria (from october 1915), but the allies eventually embraced 22 states including the major european powers of britain, france, Imperial russia and italy (from may 1915) and their colonies and dependencies, and also. Japan, the united states (from march 1917), liberia (from august 1917) and brazil (from. October 1917: similarly, the second world war widened with the aggression of germany, italy (from june. July 1915, flamethrowers were used effectively for the first time by the germans at hooge near ypres: tanks were also introduced for the first time by the british on the somme on 15 september. An infantry officer at the battle of the somme, july 1916 (b. h. liddell hart) In haig"s optimistic instructions, they were to ride through on the first morning to bapaume, a.
