HIST 2102H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Friedrich Von Bernhardi, Norman Angell, Antoine-Henri Jomini
20 Feb 2016
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Vast armies 65 million mobilized for the war, 8-10 million deaths, 22 million were wounded/disabled. Mpr (military participation ratio) of male population. Society has to deal with them moving to the front. Monarchies will not be the same as before the war. Revolution fall of the romanov dynasty (russian) and post-war revolutions (germany, hungary, creation of the turkish state) Challenge to laissez faire economics (let the market be, income tax being used after the war) Government bureaucracies grow (during and after war) States lack adequate war chests (a room for safe keeping to fund the war, needed to find a way to fund the fronts regarding men and ammunition; some took out loans, others sold bonds) State steps in to try to control marketplace nationalization (railways, shipping lines) and command economies. Unions gained an upper-hand (they will full of socialists that were supposed to be against war, instead they waged war against the others)
