here's some tips i gave some other student:
http://community.boredofstudies.org/569/general-discussion-2006-hsc/100034/distance-education.html.
Changing attitudes:
Germany:
Before:
-The war on two fronts resulted in the thinking of a purely defensive war were they’re defending their honor.
After:
Soldiers:
- Lost of faith in leaders due to the battle of “Verdun and the Somme” as the same tactics particularly attrition were being used over and over, which just resulted more lots of casualties
- War weariness due to reality of war and trenches
Homefront:
- Political unity, which Germany had, began to crack in 1917 for various reasons
- ‘Turnip winter’ and food shortages of 1916-1917, naval blockage created fury in the mass as much was affected. (Contributed to this split of political unity)
- Peace movements and strikes held in Berlin became more common
- Mass wanted political reform
- Socialist stop supporting war effort
- For this Led by social democrats, the parties of the left argued that if political reforms was not forthcoming, the government could not count on the continuing support of the working class for the war effort.
- Reichstag also demanded political reform
- 1918 Germany was close to a revolution and abdication of Kaiser seemed inevitable
mistake you've made:
Germany wern't happy that they were attacked as they were now fighting a war on two fronts. but this resulted in them wanting to defend their fatherland as you said as they saw it as a purely defensive war were they're defending their honor. and please don't make generalized comments like "Germans were happy that they had been attacked" for instance. not everybody felt the same way and you will lose marks if you do that.
Reasons for the allied victory in ww1: (got these notes from one of the best modern history teachers)
Primary factors:
1.Allied economic and numerical strength: in a long war of attrition the allies simply had the capacity to make up the losses of war and build larger and more powerful wartime economies. The allies won the war on the homefront.
2. The success in the long term of the British Royal Navy blockage of Germany: this was important both from a logistic and from a strategic point of view. The associated failure of the Germans to break this blockage at the battle of Jutland is also a factor.
3.The failure of the Schlieffen plan: if the germans were going to be successful they needed a short war. in reality they needed to have been successful in keeping britain out of the war in the first place
4.the advantages of the allies geographical position: the allies had access to worldwide resources, and for much of the war they forced germany to fight a difficult war on two fronts.
5. the entry of the usa on the allied side: this was a significant factor in terms of the strength of the american economy, but was only militarily important in terms of the potential of the US Army. american troops only became a significant force on the western front in 1918.
6.Germany's weak allies; the germans did not benefit from it allies. in fact the germans were often forced to divert resources to help their allies
