| | c. | Unexpected promptness of English assistance to France. | | d. | Unexpected speed of Russian mobilization and Russian advance
in the East. | | e. | The Battle of the Marne.| i. | Relative strength of the opposing armies. | | ii. | Importance of the French flanking maneuver from Paris. | | iii. | Importance of Foch's generalship. | | iv. | Significance as a decisive battle. |
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| 4. | Significance of the campaign of 1914 in the West.| a. | As a commentary on the wisdom of yielding to "military
necessity." ( Munroe Smith, Militarism and Statecraft.) | | b. | Disappointment of hopes for speedy victory. | | c. | Advantages (especially economic) gained by Germany through
invasion of Belgium, Luxemburg, and France. | | d. | Beginning of the deadlock on the Western Front.| i. | New technique of trench warfare. | | ii. | Importance of munitions. | | iii. | Importance of manpower, and beginnings of agitation
for conscription in England. |
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| 5. | Campaign of 1914 in the East.| a. | Russian invasion of East Prussia and Galicia. | | b. | Battle of Tannenberg and Hindenburg's rising prestige. | | c. | Failure of Austria to crush Serbia. |
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C. SIGNIFICANCE OF BRITISH SEA-POWER IN 1914.
References:-- * Hayes,
Great War, ch. vi. # Encyc. Brit., XXXI,
1066-72. Tirpitz,
My Memoirs. Churchill,
The World Crisis, I. Corbett,
Naval Operations. Frothingham,
Naval History.
| 1. | Inaction of main German battle fleet. |
| 2. | Defeat of Admiral von Spee's squadron. |
| 3. | Blockade of Germany and destruction of German commerce. |
| 4. | Conquest of German colonies. |
| 5. | Ability of Allies to obtain supplies and men from overseas. |
D. TURKEY'S ENTRY INTO THE WAR.
References:-- * Hayes,
Great War,
69-
73. # Earle,
Turkey, the Great
Powers, and the Bagdad Railway,
275-84. # Gooch,
567-70. Djemal Pasha
,
Memories of a Turkish Statesman.
II. SECOND PHASE OF THE GREAT WAR
GERMAN SUCCESSES IN EASTERN EUROPE, 1915-16
A. CONQUEST OF POLAND, 1915.
References:-- * Hayes,
Great War,
47-
55,
99-
112. # Encyc. Brit., XXX,
897-
908. Also memoirs of Ludendorff,
Hindenburg,
Falkenhayn,
Czernin, Paléologue,
Buchanan.
Nowak,
Der Weg zur Katastrophe. Cramon,
Unser Oesterreichisch-Ungarischer Bundesgenosse.
| 1. | Anglo-French expectation of decisive aid from Russia. |
| 2. | Mackensen's victories in Galicia, May-June 1915. |
| 3. | Hindenburg's great drive--conquest of Russian Poland, Lithuania,
and Latvia. |
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