WORLD WAR I
CAUSES AND COURSE OF THE WAR
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Artillery shells caused high casualty rates along the Western Front
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Propaganda campaigns encouraged people to grow their own food.
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Millions of young men volunteered to serve when war was declared
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The alliance system drew almost every major European power into the war.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Expert-Verified Answer. Out of the given, ‘propaganda campaigns encouraged people to grow their own food’ best illustrates the concept of total war in World War 1.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which of the following best illustrates the concept of total war in World War I? Propaganda campaigns encouraged people to grow their own food.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Total war” includes four things: Mobilization, refusal to compromise, the blurring of roles between soldier and civilians, and total control of society. In many ways World War I was total war.
Detailed explanation-4: -total war, military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory, as distinguished from limited war.
Detailed explanation-5: -Propaganda. One of the features of total war in Britain was the use of government propaganda posters to divert all attention to the war on the home front. Posters were used to influence public opinion about what to eat and what occupations to take, and to change the attitude of support towards the war effort.