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By 1917, Siegfried Sassoon believed that World War 1 was a conflict of
defense and liberation
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imperialism and conquest
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aggression and conquest
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defense and aggression
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On the Eastern Front, Russia
was hampered by their relatively backward economy
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overwhelmed German forces through sheer numbers
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joined with the Serbs to defend Belgrade
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suffered humiliating defeats at Austrian hands in what is now the Ukraine
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During the war, women made up __________ of those employed in the British defense industries.
10%
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25%
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40%
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60%
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In the countryside, peasants called to the war effort were
at best reluctant, fearing their crops would go untended
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joyful, eager for the chance to “be a hero”
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unwilling, with many attempting to flee to avoid conscription
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overcome with a sense of duty to serve their country
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As a percentage of total population, the country that lost more soldiers than any other was
Russia
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France
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Austria
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Serbia
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After years of rosy propaganda, the German population was shocked in November 1918 to learn
that their forces had surrendered
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that their food supply was on the verge of collapse
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the war’s true death toll
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that their U-boats had sunk neutral and civilian ships
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After the Battle of Ypres, the armies on the Western Front
raced northward, attempting to outflank each other
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dug in their trenches and remained mostly immobile
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attempted to push each other back with a series of ever closer trenches dug into No Man’s Land
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pushed southward across France
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By 1916, the German population was facing a near-starvation diet caused by
Allied bombing of German farmlands
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the British blockade of all German trade with neutral powers
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the Russian military’s seizure of much of the German agricultural heartland
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a potato famine that devastated the German crop
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Russia pulled out of the war in 1917 because
they ran out of coal to power their industry
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their losses reached 30% of the population
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the czarist regime was overthrown by the Bolsheviks
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the Italians entered the war
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The Battle of the Somme, in which the British won a small strip of territory from the Germans and which killed almost 1.3 million soldiers, lasted
just one week
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a month
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nearly 5 months
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a full year
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The Allies were forced to attack the Ottoman Empire over land, by marching through the Middle East, after their failed attempt at conquest after landing at
Constantinople
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Caucasus
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Gallipoli
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Armenia
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The tide of the war turned against Germany when
the Reichstag passed a “peace resolution” that undermined morale on the front and at home
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the United States entered the war
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Russia pulled out of the war
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non-German members of the Habsburg army deserted en masse
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By the end of 1916, three years into the war, the Western Front
had been pushed back into German territory
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had been pushed back into Allied territory
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remained virtually unchanged
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reflected notable gains and losses in territory on both sides, but the total land held by each army remained roughly the same
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American public opinion turned against Germany after
the Armenia genocide
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the Germans began using French residents of occupied territory as forced labor
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Germany killed more than 5,500 Belgian civilians in “preventive” attacks
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British passenger ship the Lusitania was sunk by a U-boat
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The group of German leftists known as the Spartacus Union were eventually renamed the
Nazi Party
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Independent Socialist Party
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German Communist Party
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Social Democratic Party
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After the war, the Allies dealt with the Austro-Hungarian empire following
the principle of national self-determination
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Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
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the territorial interests of Britain and France
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a series of “mandates” giving power to the Allies
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