History 1401E Lecture 26: History Lecture January 18 2016
19 Aug 2016
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World war one: failure of the schlieffen plan in september 1914, development of trench warfare in the west a. i. Winston churchill is the one who instituted the tank: this plan failed almost immediately b. i. Did not want to conquer but wanted to break their will to fight: why did the german army not proceed further into russia? b. i. They didn"t go further due to the events that had happened to napoleon when he tried to invade: uselessness of the german fleet, that only thing that the navy accomplished was to keep the british out of the. Only the submarines played an offensive role but only after the war had already started a. i. 1. The navy was not an offensive one but a defensive one: the nature of war on the western front, other instruments of war, people were placed in internment camps depending on the passport that they held a. i. They did not have to do anything wrong a. i. 1.
