HIST 274 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: The Second Sex, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Defeatism
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Hist 274: cultural history of modern france, mar 2, 2017. ***next exam includes an id question about political figures. 1916; battle of the somme, july-nov 1916: trenches had three horizontal trenches connected by vertical trenches, opposing army was about 2-3 miles apart, the area in between was no man"s land, filled with barbed wire and landmines. 2: often, the barbed wire was never actually cut, and soldiers would be caught and then mowed down, offensives failed and soldiers were slaughtered. In the battle of verdun, during excursions to no man"s land, In the battle of the somme (launched by britain), 125 square miles were gained for the allies, the british lost 400,00 men, french. 200,000, germans 4-500,000 men: 5 million french were killed by the end, by spring of 1917, men were refusing to go over the trench, defeatism, clemenceau: feb. 1917, america joins war feb. 1917 and arrives in.
