HISTORY 2S03 Lecture : War in the West
11 Jan 2012
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War of 1918 the western front y when the war ends in 1918, its ending comes a s a shock to the allies: this rapidity is shocking y the allies were planning a campaign in 1919. Caporetto 1917 y this italian defeat almost knocks them out of the war. Nielle offensive y the french in 1917, saw their army exhausted and in this wake, they were plagued by large- scale disaffection. Passchendale y the british were bogged down in the mud at passchendaele. They are buying food (grain, wheat), locomotives, and arms (war material). They are buying it as the demands of the war increase, on a greater scale. If this buying had been equally distributed if the germans were also purchasing in the us on a massive scale there would be no bias. the allies were buying in the us because the british navy controls the seas. the allies have greater financial resources in the us.
