Causes, practices and effects of war

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==Leadup to WWI==
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*arms races
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**Naval Race between Britain and Germany
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***Britain builds the first Dreadnought-class battleship (battleship with all big guns: revolutionary) in 1906
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*Alliances for nonagression and mutual defence:
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**Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
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**Triple Entente: England, France, Russia . Germany viewed this as a "plot to encircle" them.
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*Russia has called itself "protector of the Southern Slavs" -- needed access to the Mediterranean
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**the Balkans are a 'powder keg'.
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*Germany: militarism and nationalism in the German Confederation since 1814
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**Bismarck: unites Germany, increases army. He enacts the biggest peacetime military increase in history: 30%
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*June 28 1914: '''assassination of Archduke Ferdinand''' in Sarajevo.
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**"spark in the powder keg" of the Balkans.
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*Francis Joseph I of Austria-Hungary asks Kaiser Willhelm II of Germany for support in case of war with Serbia
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**support granted: Francis Joseph sends an unacceptable ultimatum sent to Serbia, war begins
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**why did Kaiser Willhelm II grant support? some historians say he underestimated Russia's dedication to the Balkans (and thought that Russia might not retaliate -> no world war), others thought he believed war was inevitable.
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*German generals agreed that the threat from the Entente made war inevitable: war 'the sooner the better'
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=Practices of War=
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Current revision as of 12:01, 29 September 2011

In this section it is advisable to study the causes, practices and effects of a variety of wars from at least two Regions, World Wars included.

Some wars explained on other pages, but which can still be used for this section, are: the Vietnam War, the Korean War, and the Chinese Civil War.


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Contents

[edit] Practices of War

[edit] WWI

  • Mostly deadlocked trench warfare
  • Rudimentary tanks
  • air power (early dogfighting in the air; Germans had dirigibles)
  • Mustard gas used with mixed results (see poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
    • effective against ground troops, however, if the wind blew the wrong direction, the people releasing the gas could be maimed or killed - the fate intended for their target.

[edit] WWII

  • Blitzkrieg('lightning war') used by Hitler, especially to invade Poland.
    • A combination of tanks, air power, artillery and infantry to overwhelm the enemy
  • Total War
    • Civilians targeted, especially with bombing
  • Carpet-bombing and firebombing (with napalm)
    • HUGE portions of Japanese cities were burned (more info)
  • Better tanks could effectively overcome the deadlock of trench warfare
  • Atomic bomb

[edit] Effects of War

In many cases, the causes and course of war can be integrated into a discussion of its effects. These are some of the main effects that don't fit into other categories.

[edit] WWI

  • Versailles Treaty: Germany has:

[edit] WWII

  • Stage is set for the Cold War:
    • Power vacuum in Eastern Europe
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