Karteikarten: Total War and Trench Warfare Dynamics — 20 Karten

Total War — definition?

Complete mobilization of all resources for war.

Economic mobilization — purpose?

Convert industries to support military needs.

Social mobilization — role?

Involve society, especially women, in war effort.

War propaganda — technique?

Use media and censorship to shape public opinion.

War loans — function?

Raise funds from civilians to finance war.

Union Sacrée — meaning?

Political unity during wartime.

War of Movement — phase?

Rapid, mobile military operations early in WWI.

Plan Schlieffen — goal?

Quickly defeat France through Belgium.

Battle of the Marne — significance?

Stopped German advance, ended mobile phase.

Trench warfare — characteristic?

Static, extensive defensive trenches, high casualties.

Major WWI battles — examples?

Verdun and the Somme.

Turning point 1917 — events?

Russian Revolution and US entry into war.

WWI ending — event?

Armistice signed November 11, 1918.

War of position — definition?

Prolonged trench stalemate with defensive fortifications.

Trench conditions — hardships?

Mud, rats, disease, and unsanitary living.

Weapons in WWI — innovations?

Heavy artillery, machine guns, poison gas, tanks, aircraft, submarines.

Civilian impact — examples?

Requisitions, bombings, famine, Armenian genocide.

Post-war treaties — purpose?

End war, redraw borders, impose penalties.

European territorial changes — result?

New states, lost territories, empire dissolutions.

Empires after WWI — fate?

Collapse of Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires.