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A Global Conflict - Coggle Diagram

- - - - It touched not only soldiers in the trenches, civilians as well
      - WW1
      - Change: They was a big change in peoples lives from loosing loved ones
  - - - In each Country, the wartime government took control of the economy
        
        Unemployment in the European countries disappeared
        
        Many goods were in short supply, government turned to rationing
        
        Government used propaganda, one -sided information designed to persuade, keep up support for war
        
        Propaganda
        
        How did Total War lead to rationing?
        
        It lead to rationing so they could import more goods, for example food
        
        Covered a wide range of goods
        
        Invention: They used rationing as a way to get more goods
        
        Why did the wartime governments take control of their countries' economies ?
        
        This was to make sure that all resources were dedicated to winning the war
      - Total War
    - - Balance: They needed some sort of thing to help them get only the good technology
  - - - Lots of women replaced men in factories, offices, and shops
        
        Women built different things, and ran hospitals
        
        They kept the troops supplied
        
        Many women left the work force after the war, but changed the view for women
        
        Different Jobs
      - Help from Women
        
        Identity: This was helping create identity for women
- - - - May 7, 1915 - A German U-Boat sunk the Lusitania, a passenger ship containing 128 American civilians
        
        February 1917 - Germany's foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmerman, sent a telegram to the Mexican government promising to help Mexico reclaim the land it had lost to the United States
        
        How did the Zimmerman Note draw America into the war?
        
        The Zimmerman Note was the last straw for many Americans. The American public was upset about the sinking of the Lusitania, and they were completely outraged by the Zimmerman Note
        
        Nationalism - Americans had a strong feeling of pride and love towards their country causing them to be upset by these two events
        
        More Info On The Lusitania
  - - - Britain and France recruited laborers from their colonies
        
        Many volunteered hoping that their service would gain them independence
        
        British and French Colonies in Africa And Asia
  - - - After fighting until the end of 1915 the Allies gave up and retreated
      - Why did the Allies want to establish a supply line to Russia?
        
        The Allies wanted a supply line to Russia so they could atatck Germany from both the East and West sides
- - - - in March 1917, Czar Nicholas stepped down from power
        
        New government pledged to continue fighting the war
        
        Consequence
        
        By 1917, nearly 5.5 million Russian soldiers were killed, or taken prisoner
        
        the Russian army refused to fight any longer
        
        WWI Casualities
        
        Revolution
        
        8 months after a revolution shook Russia
        
        November 1917 - Communist leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin seized power
        
        Self-interest
        
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        What effect did the Russian Revolution have on Russia's role in World War I?
        
        It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation fo the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), replacing Russia's traditional monarchy with the world's first communist state
        
        Czar Nicholas
  - - - Germany could now send all its forces to the Western Front
        
        March 1918 - One final, massive attack on the Allies in France
        
        Invasion
        
        German forces crushed everything in their path
        
        Late May 1918, Germans had reached the Marne River. Paris was less than 40 miles away
        
        The effort to reach the Marne had exhausted German men and supplies alike
        
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- - - - it left more death and destruction of any war up to its time
        
        Both sides suffered tremendous loss
        
        8.5 million people died in the war and another 21 million wounded
        
        civilians were killed by starvation, disease, and saluter.
        
        It had a devastating economic toll on Europe
        
        The damage of the war was up to $338 billion
        
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        Death toll
        http://www.centre-robert-schuman.org/userfiles/files/REPERES%20%E2%80%93%20module%201-1-1%20-%20explanatory%20notes%20%E2%80%93%20World%20War%20I%20casualties%20%E2%80%93%20EN.pdf
      - Tanks
        https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2016/09/world-war-i-the-tech-of-the-tank/