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CHAPTER 25 THE BEGINNING OF THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY CRISIS: WAR AND REVOLUTION CHAPTER OUTLINE I. The Road to World War I; Assassinations and other problems A. Nationalism; growing national rivalries and alliances B. Internal Dissent; ethnic minorities, class struggle and fear of revolution C. Militarism; large armies, conscription and the influence of leaders D. The Outbreak of War: The Summer of 1914 1. Another Crisis in the Balkans, Serbia, Austria and Russia 2. Assassination of Francis Ferdinand, Blank check 3. Declarations of War, Russian mobilization, Schlieffen Plan, Belgian Neutrality II. The War A. 1914-1915: Illusions and Stalemate; propaganda and public opinion, reasons for public excitement 1. War in the West; failure of the Schlieffen plan, trench warfare 2. War in the East; Russian successes, German counter attacks B. 1916-1917: The Great Slaughter; trench warfare 1. Daily Life in the Trenches C. The Widening of the War; Ottoman Empire, Italy switches sides, 1. A Global Conflict; Lawrence of Arabia, war in Asia and Africa, conscripting colonial peoples, Japan 2. Entry of the United States; German and British warfare, Lusitania, D. A New Kind of Warfare 1. Tanks, airplanes, zeppelins E. The Home Front: The Impact of Total War 1. Total War: Political Centralization and Economic Regimentation 2. Public Order and Public Opinion 3. The Social Impact of Total War III. War and Revolution A. The Russian Revolution: role of war, general problems in Russia, Rasputin, 1. The March Revolution; (Thanks for being such a concerned student – I really do appreciate how hard you all work) Women, bread, work, March 8, end of the Tsar, Provisional government, Soviets, Bolsheviks, Lenin, April Thesis, Bolshevik promises, general anarchy 2. The Bolshevik Revolution: Exile of Bolsheviks, Seizure of power, Council of People’s Commissars, Constituent assembly, 1st law, women’s rights, Treaty of Brest- Litovsk 3. Civil War; opponents to