1. HIST 2117: Modern Germany Spring 2013
Lecture Fourteen: World War I

2. The Mood of 1914 Austria vs. Serbia The “Blank Check”
Schlieffen Plan and Diplomacy
Mobilization of Nationalism
The Burgfrieden
Ultimatums and Declarations of War

3. The War Begins 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

4. Stalemate Conduct of War Rethinking Logistics – Walther Rathenau
British Blockade
Attempts at a Technological Military Breakthrough
From War of Breakthrough to War of Attrition
Conditions at the Front

5. War on Other Fronts Hindenburg and Ludendorff on the Eastern Front
Italy, Turkey, Romania
Submarine Warfare and the US

6. Home Front and Military Crisis
Patriotic Auxiliary Service Law
Turnip Winter
Destabilization and Collapse of Russia
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Entry of the United States
Last Assault in West – Second Battle of the Marne

7. The End Retreat Call for Armistice Abdication of William II
Naval Mutiny
Armistice, November 11, 1918
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