Tactics at sea

Question 1

What were the 2 main tactics?

Answer 1

• Blockade
• Submarine Warfare

Question 2

How long did the blockade last?

Answer 2

1914 - 1919

Question 3

How did the blockade work? (2)

Answer 3

• B used COMMERCIAL BLOCKADES
• all neutral merchant ships intercepted / searched
  = materials that could help G win

Question 4

What was the main naval contribution to the Allied victory?

Answer 4

through B blockade of the G coast

Question 5

What were the impacts of the blockade? (5)

Answer 5

• very significant
• G BADLY AFFECTED
  –> needed to feed its pop & service its armaments
• imports FELL BY 60% !!!
• G economy ↓↓
• FOOD RIOTS (G & Austria-H)

Question 6

How many deaths caused by blockade in G in 4 yrs?

Answer 6

300,000

Question 7

Feb 1917

Answer 7

decrease of daily rations
= RATIONING INTRODUCED

Question 8

How were the blockade tactics defeated?

Answer 8

RATIONING
–> limit the food given / person
–> made BREAD RATIONING COUPONS (to make food amount equal)

Question 9

What was the daily average of cal / person during blockade?

Answer 9

1,000 cal / person

Question 10

What did kind of food did they rely on during the blockade?

Answer 10

on COLONIAL GOODS (ersatz goods) = OVERSEAS GOODS

Question 11

Where were the colonial goods from (e.g) ?

Answer 11

Sweden

Question 12

What was the major event in the sub. warfare?

Answer 12

The Sinking of the Lusitania

Question 13

When was the sinking of the Lusit.?

Answer 13

17 May 1915

Question 14

Who sank the Lusit.?

Answer 14

Germans

Question 15

Some description abt the Lusit. (2)

Answer 15

• NY to Liverpool
• shot down by a G U-Boat

Question 16

How many deaths caused by the sinking of the Lusit.?

Answer 16

1,198

Question 17

How many Americans were on board the Lusit. died?

Answer 17

100

Question 18

What did the death of 100 Am. cause?

Answer 18

TENSION between USA & G

Question 19

1915

Answer 19

G launched a campaign of UNRESTRICTED SUB WARFARE

Question 20

1917 onwards