HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Young Turk Revolution, Austria-Hungary, Senvion
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Lecture 5: the great war as total war & world war (1914-1918) Total war => all aspects of life (it affected innocent people) World war => means that it affected very country in the whole world. Western europe: the schlief en plan came into work in 1914 with the invasion of neutral belgium when the. Ex. the university library at louvain, belgium that was destroyed in 1914. It contained a great amount of hand to hand combat; this with technological advances made trench warfare deadly: battle of marne: The battle of the marne (french: premi re bataille de la marne, also known as the. Miracle of the marne) was a first world war battle fought from 5 12 september: it resulted in an allied victory against the german army (chief of staff helmuth von moltke the younger). The germans began shelling the trenches of the opposite side.
