HST 702 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Union Of Right Forces, Chitosan, Trench Foot
8 Dec 2013
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The ottoman empire, gallipoli and the armenian genocide. 1 - trenches, deadlock, and the search for a new front: trenches. More frontline troops were evacuated from the frontline for trench foot than battle wounds. British decision to open up a new front of the war by attacking the ottoman. 2 - the ottoman empire a war: the crumbling empire and the central powers. The ottoman empire had been mighty, occupying europe and middle east, Turks dreamed of a day when their empire would be great again. But they feared their empire being swept away. Sense that they need to join the war (the side that"s going to win) October 1914, turkey enters the war, jointing with the central powers. They felt that they needed a protector that would defend the crumbling ottoman empire from those who wanted to see it collapse (britain/france) Turks in perfect position to put russian in a two front war.
