Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Pgs 102-115
This whole chapter was about WWI and I found it very interesting to go back and look at how the war played out after we had fully understood the causes. How the alliances played out and all the new technology was very interesting. I thought it was odd how although the German's had their U-boats that were so successful and they gained a great advantage after Russia dropped out of the war they still lost. Why? the book states a few different causes, the British naval blockade as I understand was the biggest factor, this blockaded Germany and although they resumed unrestricted warfare this seems to be too little too late? Question number 9, "Was Germaun "unrestricted submarine warfare" an avoidable mistake?" was quite confusing. A mistake on which side? Was using the sumbarine warfare a mistake on Germany's side because it wound up drawing the United States into the war? Or was it a mistake on the Allies side of the war beacuse they were using their navies so effectively that Germany had no choice but to resume "unrestricted submarine warfare"?
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I think they meant a mistake on the German side, but I'm kind of confused on what else they think the Germans could have done. U.S. trade ships were shipping supplies to Britain and the other Allies, they were essentially part of the war, I don't know if Germany did anything wrong with their methods, it just didn't work out for them.
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I personally believe that the germans didn't really have any choice since acting all fair against the ships for the allies didn't really turn the tide in Germany's favor. Having unconditional submarine warfare was an effective way of taking out the allies shipments.
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