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HIST 2117: Modern Germany
Spring 2014
Lecture Fourteen: World War I
The Mood of 1914
• Ultimatums and Declarations of War
• Mobilization of Nationalism
• The Burgfrieden
War Strategy
• The Initial Assault on Belgium and France
• Russian Mobilization and the Battle of
Tannenberg
• The First Battle of the Marne
• The Race to the Sea
Stalemate
• From War of Breakthrough to War of Attrition
• Conditions at the Front
• Attempts at a Technological Military
Breakthrough
• Rethinking Logistics – Walther Rathenau
• British Blockade and Submarine War
• The War on Other Fronts
Home Front and Crisis
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Patriotic Auxiliary Service Law
Turnip Winter
Emerging Anti-War Sentiment
The USPD, Mass Strike, and Spartacus League
End of Burgfrieden -- January 1918 Strike
The End
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Collapse of Russia and Entry of US
Last Assault and Call for Armistice
Abdication of William II
Naval Mutiny and Start of Revolution
The Armistice
The Toll
– German Dead 2 million, Wounded 4 million
– Austrian Dead 1 million, Wounded 3.5 million
– Allied Dead 5.7 million, Wounded 12.8 million