World History › Section V · World War I › Topic V.3
Total war
Industrial weapons, mass armies and global empires turned the war of 1914 into something new: a struggle that consumed whole societies and reached far beyond Europe. This topic follows the fighting, the colonial troops and labourers who served, and the genocide carried out under its cover.
In this topic
- What made the war total
- The weapons of industrial war
- Life in the trenches
- Worked example: the logic of attrition in 1916
- War at sea
- Beyond the Western Front
- Empires at war
- Rival promises in the Arab lands
- The Armenian Genocide
- Worked example: reading an ambassador's cable
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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