HST 112 Lecture 11: HST112 | Week 6 |3.2.16
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Be sure to reference primary sources in the ids and essays. Individual and the state: wwi plays a large part on many lives. Women and their shifting role is society: thousands of deaths. August 1914: war begins, people think it"s going to be a short war with few casualties, thought the boys would be home by christmas . Liberalism (optimism, reason, rationality) begin to be questioned: turn to communism, fascism, nazism. Breakdown of the bismarckian state system broke down under kaiser wilhelm ii"s. Weltpolitik (trying to project german power on the world stage: there were already nationalist rivalries in europe, soon in britain there"s a sense that war with germany is inevitable and desirable. Systems of alliances: triple alliance, triple entente. Balkan nationalism and unrest: serbia, romania, bulgaria. Austria feels that the serbian state is responsible for the death. There is great sympathy throughout europe for the habsburgs.
