HIST 205 Lecture 2: Imperialism, Nationalism, and WW I
Document Summary
The war that occupied most of the world from august 1914 to november 1918 was not known as world. War i until a second worldwide conflict broke out in 1939. Prior to that year, it was known as the great. Wwi involved throughout the world and was one of the most violent and destructive wars in. Wwi (cid:449)as the (cid:449)orld"s first total (cid:449)ar, i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)i(cid:374)g e(cid:374)tire populatio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) resources of dozens of nations and their colonial possessions to achieve victory on the battlefield. In other words, wwi brought the civilian population directly and critically into the war effort. The war started with a conflict between two european coalitions the allied powers (united kingdom, france, Belgium, serbia, montenegro, and russia) and the central powers (germany, austria-hungary) and eventually involved 32 countries. The trigger of the (cid:449)ar (cid:449)as a er(cid:271)ia(cid:374)"s assassi(cid:374)atio(cid:374) of ar(cid:272)hduke fra(cid:374)(cid:272)is ferdi(cid:374)a(cid:374)d, heir to the throne of austria-hungary.
