Production and assembly processes became more and more automated, making mass production of ammunition and weaponry possible.Ĭannoni da 381-40, Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova, Europeana 1914-1918. RELATED: Read this blog: The Treaty of Versailles: the end of World War I? This concerns the production of materials for military purposes - clothing, aircraft and chemicals - as well as infrastructures – construction, railway, ports – that were laid out during the war to facilitate the war effort and to ensure the housing and mobility of the people. Along with innovative technology, this led to one of the most devastating wars in human history. New military machinery could be produced at a much larger scale and at a much faster rate than before. During the initial months the high command made most of the crucial decisions the cabinet accorded almost unlimited freedom of action to the commander in chief, General Joseph Joffre, assuming that the war would last only a few weeks and that civilian interference would only prolong hostilities.Industrialisation played a major role in World War One. Parliament, after voting war credits, went into an extended recess, handing over the conduct of the war to the cabinet and the high command. Trade-union and socialist leaders, some of whom had been on a governmental list of dangerous subversives to be arrested in case of war, rallied to the colours. Germany’s declaration of war against France on August 3 produced a spontaneous outburst of patriotic sentiment. French support of the Serbs and the Russians, according to this view, was thus inspired by a calculated judgment regarding French security. ![]() A more judicious view is that many French statesmen had long seen the possibility and even the likelihood of a general war, and they suspected that the German government desired such a war the Poincaré group believed that under these circumstances France could not risk the loss of its allies. Petersburg at the height of the crisis has been seen as an occasion for a French promise of full support to Russia. Some historians have accused Poincaré and his supporters of a willingness to go to the brink of war rather than seek a negotiated settlement or use restraint on the Serbs and Russians Poincaré’s state visit to St. The assassination of the Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo (now in Bosnia and Herzegovina) on June 28, 1914, inaugurated five weeks of feverish negotiations, in which France’s role has been much debated.
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