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World War Two - Theory and Nature of War - Lecture Slides, Slides of History of War

World War Two, Causes of the War, Failure of the Schlieffen Plan, German Solution, Extraordinary Number of Casualties, Historical Context, Evaluate Its Place, Understand the Impact, Affects and Influences, The Treaty of Versailles represent lecture layout. This lecture is part of lecture series on Theory and Nature of War.

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The Character of World War I

Character of World War I

  • Points to remember
    • Causes of the war
    • Failure of the Schlieffen Plan
    • German solution to tactical problem
    • Extraordinary number of casualties
    • War’s end

Educational Objectives

  • Discuss the causes, character and

outcome…

  • Place the war in a historical context to

evaluate its place in the evolution of war.

  • Understand the impact of WWI.

WWII

  • Background: WWI
    • Cause
    • Character
    • Affects and Influences
    • The Treaty of Versailles
    • Rise of Axis Powers

Character of World War I

 Massive Armies

 Violation of Neutrals

 Technology

  • Submarines
  • Aircraft
  • Machineguns; Artillery
  • Gas
  • Railroads
  • Motor Transport

World War I

Affects and influences

Collapse of Old European Order US Isolationism Lasting Peace Alienation of Germany Soviet Russia

The Rise of the Axis Powers

  • Italy
  • Germany
  • Japan

Italy

  • WWI
    • Legacy
    • Aftermath
    • Fascism

Italy

  • Aftermath of WWI

Before 1922, Parliamentary Monarchy Increasing support for the Fascists under Mussolini Promised to rebuild Italy and recreate the Roman Empire Friendship with Hitler 1936 “Pact of Steel” with the Nazis 1939

Fascism Defined

Totalitarian philosophy

Origins; Roman fasces

Mussolini’s National Fascist Party

Counter to Bolshevik Insurrections

Ultranationalist

Illiberal: collective self

Focus on Leader and Party

Italian War Aims

Desire to be a “Great Power”

National unification

Mussolini the senior partner: 1922 vs. 1933

Opportunism with Nazi successes

Mediterranean = mare italiano

Italian Strategy

 War should be actively sought  would help unify Italy and enhance Fascism

 Germany would need Italian help to defeat France

 Italy could  gain all of French North Africa and  dominate the Mediterranean

 Alliance with Germany was desirable  similar ideologies and  common enemies

Realities of Italy’s War

 War came too soon

 Little popular support

 Less advanced technology

 Primitive economy

 Fascism lacked the ideological intensity of Nazism

 Royal Navy contained Italy’s ambitions

 Italy’s War ended as the tide turned on Germany

Germany

  • Aftermath of WWI
  • Rise of Nazi Germany
  • Goals