Long and short causes, immense effects
- World War I, caused by a complex interaction of long- and short-term factors, resulted in immense losses and disruptions for both victors and vanquished.
- Complex interaction rules out a single-cause answer, and long- and short-term tells you the two shelves to draw from.
- For both victors and vanquished is the sentence's real teaching: winning did not spare a state the losses.
'A complex interaction of long- and short-term factors' rules out...
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It tells you the two shelves to draw from.
Technology confounded strategy
- New technologies confounded traditional military strategies and led to trench warfare and massive troop losses.
- Confounded is precise: the strategies were not merely outdated, they were defeated by conditions they could not read.
- Unit 6's industry supplied the technologies, so the war's character is an industrial consequence.
The CED says the war brought immense losses for both victors and vanquished.
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Winning did not spare a state the losses.
Stalemate produced revolution
- The effects of military stalemate, national mobilisation, and total war led to protest and insurrection in the belligerent nations and eventually to revolutions that changed the international balance of power.
- Three causes at the front and at home, one chain of consequence: protest → insurrection → revolution → a changed balance of power.
- So the war did not merely precede the Russian Revolution; the CED makes it a cause.
Follow technology to total war
Technology, then stalemate, then mobilisation — the 'because' at each step is what is marked.
New technologies ____ traditional military strategies.
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Not merely outdated — defeated by conditions they could not read.
"For both victors and vanquished" is the sentence's real teaching. The war resulted in immense losses and disruptions on both sides — so an answer that treats the victors as unaffected has missed what the CED chose to say in a single clause.
Put the CED's chain from stalemate to a changed balance in order.
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The CED makes the war a cause of the Russian Revolution.
A European war becomes a world war
- The war in Europe quickly spread to non-European theatres, transforming the war into a global conflict.
- The relationship of Europe to the world shifted significantly with the globalisation of the conflict, the emergence of the United States as a world power, and the overthrow of European empires.
- Three shifts in one sentence, and the third — the overthrow of European empires — is the largest claim in the unit.
Select all three shifts in Europe's relationship to the world.
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The Concert belongs to 6.5, and had already broken down.
Three objectives, three questions
- 8.2 carries causes and effects, how new technology altered the conduct, and how developments changed political and diplomatic interactions.
- They are separable: causes and effects, the character of the fighting, and the diplomatic aftermath.
- Reading which one a prompt is asking is half the work of answering it.
A strategy written for movement meets a weapon that makes movement fatal. Neither side can advance and neither can withdraw, so both dig. What follows is not a failure of nerve but a correct response to conditions no plan had allowed for.
World War I, caused by a complex interaction of long- and short-term factors, resulted in immense losses and disruptions for both victors and vanquished. New technologies confounded traditional military strategies and led to trench warfare and massive troop losses; stalemate, national mobilisation and total war led to protest, insurrection and eventually revolutions that changed the international balance of power; and the war's globalisation brought the emergence of the United States as a world power and the overthrow of European empires.