HI109 Lecture 2: Week 2 HI 109
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Week 2: lecture 2 world war i in europe, 1914-1918. Monday, january 11, 2016: assassinaion of the arch duke of austria-hungary (air to the throne) and his wife, may 1914, no alliances formed right ater the assassinaion, empires will fall, french ciies are destroyed and litered with cemeteries. 2: assassinaion in sarajevo, ties of peace, sources of hosility, polarizing crises, process of escalaion, origins of war. Briish: want egypt wanted to control the canal. Last ones to move are the briish: army found in australia, canada and india. Increased linkages across europe, form royal families to railroads. 2: a european-wide cultural community, scieniic research, even the socialist internaional. General expectaion that it will be a short war. Elites see war as cleansing, ennobling, masculine, with most socialists on board. No state adjusts poliical, economic or industrial infrastructure for the long-haul. Yet, within two months, all that was ruins: schliefen plan had failed; channel ports not seized;
