HIST 3121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Zimmermann Telegram, Mixed Government, Alexander Kerensky
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Domestic unrest increasing due to pressure on countries trouble feeding themselves, industrial and agricultural economies strained. Economics of war: important economic and fiscal tools to fuel the economy, massie war spending financed by selling war bonds - ex. Russia: march revolution: brings to power a mixed government, first of two russian revolutions, both rural and urban economies collapsing by 1917. Mentions attack on merchant marine ships, zimmerman telegram, russian revolution, he argues, is a democratic one: lafollette. Why aren"t we working with democratic partners? (gb and fer not democratic) Germany is doing the best job as a democratic party at this time. The people who buy war bonds aren"t doing it for the war effort- instead doing it for the interest rate. Gov. going to need to pay these people back what they promised them. In order to pay back the debts- gov. has to raise taxes on the average person- puts more taxation on the poor.
