HI109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Unconquered, Glossary Of French Expressions In English, Authoritarianism
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Men, morale, money: entente > central powers. Bolshevik revolution & treaty of brest-litovsk (march 1918) The bolshevik revolution takes russia out of the war. Territorial gains & initial successes: optimism to german military and people. But allied response: hundred days offensive into fall 1918. Shows that germany is at the end of its power. Fighting would end within 6 hours of fighting. Germany to withdraw forces from eastern and western fronts. The german high command & the shifting of responsibility for defeat. Supreme command & the dictatorship of gen. hindenburg & ludendorff from 1916. On one hand: continuing war impossible fall 1918. Generals unwilling to accept blame: scapegoats (defeat that they fully understood) Interwar: ludendorff & the stab in the back | war was a draw. How reality can be changed with propaganda. Pm ebert feb 1919: you return unconquered from the field of battle . Accepted language of armistice & ceasefire (vs surrender)
