HIST 1003 : History 1003 Final
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4/16/2012 3:40:00 pm (older stuff will all come from first slide of each powerpoint, 4 out of 12 id"s are from old stuff) if there"s nothing on that slide then skip it. Must destroy french army not just defeat it: on august 1, the german army goes straight through belgium and into france and france stops them at the battle of the marne and the german plan is completely foiled. Mobilization of resources: free enterprise had to be set aside, governments took control of economies, great increase in power of government. Mobilization of minds: unlike world war ii, no notion that one side was good and the other evil, so motivation had to be created, present the other side as evil propaganda. Great battles of 1916: battle of verdun, february-december 1916, french versus germans, 800,000, german strategy to bleed the french white, or kill as many.
