HIST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sub-Saharan Africa, Total War, Austria-Hungary
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16 million deaths (9. 7 military; 6. 8 civilian) New ways to kill: trenches, poison gas, tanks, airplanes, submarines. Total war: women and the war effort: women take over men"s jobs while men ght in the war. Casualties of war among the great powers: the entente militaries. Nationalist aspirations: austria-hungary faces slavy nationalism. Tuesday, november 1, 2016: russia promotes pan-slavism. Encourages slav areas of austria hungary to split off: ottoman decline and nationalism. Lost greece, serbia, romania, and bulgaria after 1830. Pre-war rivalry over ottoman territory (russians, british, french) Great power rivalries: britain versus germany, naval race. Understandings and alliances: triple alliance/central powers: germany, austria-hungary, italy (italy does not stay, triple entente: britain, france, russia, war plan: schlieffen plan. A european con ict becomes a world war. High hopes: wilson"s 14 points, present to congress in january 1918 as basis for just peace treaty.
