HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Militarism, Industrial Revolution, Washington Doctrine Of Unstable Alliances
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Rise of many new or reconstituted states e. g. poland. Africans, indians and others in the colonies promised freedoms in exchange for help. In short: it set the stage for what follows. Industrialism and militarism: broad reasons for war. Imperialism: nationalism, the alliance system, the sheer rush of events in 1914, militarism, naval race: britain and germany, germany: industrial power. Foreign trade doubled between 1870 and 1900. If there is another war in europe it will come out of some damned foolish thing in the balkans. : gavrilo princip and the assasination, june 28, 1914, sequence of events. July 23, a. m. russia orders period preparatory to war . July 23, p. m. serbia orders mobilization of its army. The relentless logic of the entangling alliances and military plans propelled europe to war, as if the great powers were being pitched forward on an enormous wave.
