HISTORY
WORLD WAR I AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
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William II
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Alfred von Schlieffen
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Holtzendorf
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Woodrow Wilson
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Detailed explanation-1: -Over Bethmann Hollweg’s objections, Hindenburg and Ludendorff forced the adoption of unrestricted submarine warfare in March 1917, adopted as a result of Henning von Holtzendorff’s memorandum.
Detailed explanation-2: -Unrestricted submarine warfare was first introduced in World War I in early 1915, when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, would be attacked by the German navy.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was an incredibly risky plan, but German hawks believed they could starve Britain out in six months, and the US wouldn’t make it in time. Ludendorff, practical ruler of Germany, made the decision, and in February 1917 unrestricted submarine warfare began.
Detailed explanation-4: -The U-boat campaign of World War I, waged intermittently by Germany between 1915 and 1918 against Britain and her allies.
Detailed explanation-5: -Germany then retaliated by creating its own blockade around the British Isles and English Channel and began using a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, destroying all Allied and neutral party ships.