Total war Flashcards
What are the requirements for total war?
- Geographic spread
- Large death casualties
- Targeting civilians
- civilian involvement
- focus on industry
- propaganda
- Large forces
- Large aims
Why might the FRW be classed as a total war? give a battle?
Large forces = high death toll
Battle of Wattinges ended with 8000 dead
How did Frances’ industry aid in the outcome?
They could produce 70 guns a day from a single factory in Paris helping them to supply the war effort and match the multiple enemies fighting 5 battles a week
Why could the ACW be classed as a total war?
Focus on the civilian population with Sherman’s scorched earth, attacking homesteads on his march to the sea
What are two ways in which the North won due to total war?
- Industry: industrialisation and railways dominated the south which was agrarian
- Large war aims kept the European powers from intervention and after prompted large socio-economic shifts
In the FWW give an example were Britain engaged in total war by targeting the civilian population?
The blockade on the coast led to 750,000 deaths from starvation
What percent of Global production did the allies have in WW2?
65% ONCE America joined
How many tanks did Germany produce in the final month of WW2?
Around 5
Which wars are total?
WW1 from 1918 and WW2, others display aspects like FRW and ACW but are not fully TWs
