HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Austria-Hungary, Trench Warfare, Future Wars
26 Oct 2016
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1/26/2015 10:26:00 pm from arms race to the league of nations last week. Saw how euopean economic protectionism and rivalry played itself out and affected the world. Development leading and following scramble for afrca and the e . we will discuss intensification of european rivalry and start of an arms race. Effts of world leaders to avert future wars through global governace mechanism. Economic rivalry takes a military turn with arms race. Accelerated industrialization put germany toe to toe with great britian (the world greatest power at that time) comes from wake of 1871 . Decades preceding and after 1871 there were trasmatic transformations (techonogy) that propelled germany as a power. German rules began to overrule britians rules german industrial acceleration was very quick and powerfuk (consumer goods) Technological advance in the military was drastic war commanders of big powers were devastated to learn how they didn"t know the full effects of their machines.
