USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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This is what happens when countries begin devoting all of their resources towards the war effort.

(A) World war

(B) Industrial War

(C) ** Total War

(D) Trench Warfare

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Total war is a type of warfare that includes any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure as legitimate military targets, mobilizes all of the resources of society to fight the war, and gives priority to warfare over non-combatant needs.

Concept note-2: -"Total war” includes four things: Mobilization, refusal to compromise, the blurring of roles between soldier and civilians, and total control of society.

Concept note-3: -World War I became a total war, a war involving a complete mobilizationof resources and people. The war affected all of the citizens in the warring coun-tries. As a result of the war effort, there was an increase in government powers and in the use of propaganda.

Concept note-4: -The First World War destroyed empires, created numerous new nation-states, encouraged independence movements in Europe’s colonies, forced the United States to become a world power and led directly to Soviet communism and the rise of Hitler.