HIST 1150 Lecture 2: WWI
19 Feb 2016
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More than 9million people died (roughly 1 in 8 soldiers who fought; 6000 people per day); 15 million wounded: civilian casualties a huge part = total war. Fundamental changes to the world by wwi: euro political world reshaped (transitions from empires to nation states) as. Hapsburg, ottoman and russian empires collapse -> creation of new nation-states (poland, hungary, austria, finland, etc. : 1917: first communist revolutions. Origins of the war: assassination of archduke franz ferdinand of the hapsburg empire by a. Bosnian nationalist (black hand) that opposed hapsburg rule in the balkans -> killing an imperial power: the hapsburg blamed serbia. Germany tells a-h that they can do what they like with serbia and they will support them. At end of july ah declares war on serbia. This gets the attention of russia, who partially mobilizing its army = snowball effect. Germany in response mobilizes its army and declares a state of imminent war.
