HIST 387 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Submarine Warfare, Aegan, Proletariat
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Brenner, istria, bukovina, kreuznach, spahn, erzberger, schwander, krause, kapp, tyrol, goiz, sykes, picot, banat, stresemann, Home front civil population they"re a target, a matter of what can be done, rather than what ought to be done. Sea power enabled a power to set up a blockade/means, to affect and starve an entire population cut off foods, etc. Central powers had little or no response except the submarines fairly effective, not decisive, but still painful for the allied side. Aerial bombing in first ww not as much as second idea was there, attempted to apply it. British blockade had effect on ger by the end of 1915 import and export declined considerably rationing for food and clothing inflation price controls. German industrial workers and soldiers - well feed generally. German had not stock piled raw materials for war production - so they had to start during the way - marshal their raw materials and manage them.
