HIST 387 Midterm: HIST 387 - Midterm Study Guide, part 4
14 Oct 2018
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Technological developments, but importance of smaller ones remained as they were faster and had the same size guns (battleships) No longer possible to capture heavily guarded ships, goal is to destroy as many ships as possible. Enemy at long range: 10-15km away, ships are too dangerous to get close to. British afraid of them: hms audacious got hit by a mine and was destroyed, distant blockage: ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)y (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t get out of the north see a(cid:374)d less dangerous, sir john jellicoe was stationed at scapa flow and sir david. Beatty and rosyth: also had economic blockades on germany, declare the area a war zone, seized goods from the neutral ships, problematic because according to the. Hague convention article 7, ships cannot take food from ships: germany only important 20% of their food and remained confident they would win the war. Jellico sends small ships: 130 civilians killed, adam fredrich von ingenohl has cold feet, he is worried that there are big.
