HIST 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Military Step
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● “The Great War”-WW1
● The Home Front
○ Economic and political actions all towards the war
■ “Total War”
● Political Challenges
○ Britain is the most democratic state
■ War breaks out and this changes immensely
○ French realize they are one step away from defeat, clamp down for war
○ Germany and Russia have military step in to help run country
● Changes to military tradition
○ More modern technology
■ Machine guns
■ Tanks
■ Airplanes
○ Most countries have small professional militaries
■ Soldiers for life
● Get killed off within first year
○ Mass conscription-1916
■ People get drafted into army
● Looked down upon
■ Introduced by Britain
■ Irish are not happy about this
● Small uprising-shut down quickly
● Set the stage for the war of independence for Ireland
○ Battle of Gallipoli
■ D-Day of WW1
■ British wanted to go in and land on the shores to take out ottomans quickly
● Much more fortified than thought
● Big failure
● Churchill pushed out of politics for this
● Women in the War
○ Women go into workforce when men get drafted
■ Mainly in industries dominated by men
● Wartime Labor
○ Government begins to manage many factories
■ Churn out items for war
○ “Planned Socialist Economy”
■ Mix of socialism and free market
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