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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 • • • • • 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 • • • • • • 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