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WORLD WAR I

CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR

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____ Whatever we may wish or hope, and whatever course of action we may decide, whatever be the views held as to the legality, or the humanity, or the military wisdom and expediency [advisability] of such operations, there is not the slightest doubt that in the next war both sides will send their aircraft out without scruple [hesitation] to bomb those objectives which they consider the most suitable ____ H. Trenchard, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, 192821. This passage implies that the author is
A
grateful for the availability of new weapons
B
aware that new weapons have broadened the theater of war
C
certain that there will be no future wars
D
anxious about the legality of future military operations
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Blitzkrieg, meaning ‘Lightning War’, was the method of offensive warfare responsible for Nazi Germany’s military successes in the early years of the Second World War.

Detailed explanation-2: -Propaganda in wartime must seek to demoralize enemy morale. A primary objective of propaganda aimed at enemy nations is to break down their will to fight. It seeks to lower the enemy’s will to resist and it does this in several ways. One is to picture the military successes on the propagandist’s side.

Detailed explanation-3: -"Blitzkrieg, ” a German word meaning “Lightning War, ” was Germany’s strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War II in Europe. Germany’s strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns.

Detailed explanation-4: -appeasement, Foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation in order to prevent war. The prime example is Britain’s policy toward Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

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