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  2. Blockade of Germany (1914–1919) - Wikipedia

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    The Blockade of Germany, or the Blockade of Europe, occurred from 1914 to 1919. The prolonged naval blockade was conducted by the Allies during and after World War I [1] in an effort to restrict the maritime supply of goods to the Central Powers, which included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire. The blockade is considered one of ...

  3. Naval warfare of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Naval warfare in World War I was mainly characterised by blockade. The Allied powers, with their larger fleets and surrounding position, largely succeeded in their blockade of Germany and the other Central Powers, whilst the efforts of the Central Powers to break that blockade, or to establish an effective counter blockade with submarines and commerce raiders, were eventually unsuccessful.

  4. Economic history of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Among the Allies, Britain and its Empire spent $47 billion and the U.S. $27 billion (the U.S. joined after the war started) while among the Central Powers, Germany spent $45 billion. [2] Total war demanded total mobilization of all the nation's resources for a common goal.

  5. U-boat campaign - Wikipedia

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    The U-boat campaign from 1914 to 1918 was the World War I naval campaign fought by German U-boats against the trade routes of the Allies, largely in the seas around the British Isles and in the Mediterranean, as part of a mutual blockade between the German Empire and the United Kingdom.

  6. Armistice of 11 November 1918 - Wikipedia

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    In Germany, chronic food shortages caused by the Allied blockade were increasingly leading to discontent and disorder. [7] Although morale on the German front line was reasonable, battlefield casualties, starvation rations and Spanish flu had caused a desperate shortage of manpower, and those recruits that were available were war-weary and ...

  7. History of Germany during World War I - Wikipedia

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    World War I mobilization, 1 August 1914. Germany's population had already responded to the outbreak of war in 1914 with a complex mix of emotions, in a similar way to the populations of emotions in the United Kingdom; notions of universal enthusiasm known as the Spirit of 1914 have been challenged by more recent scholarship. [1]

  8. Causes of World War I - Wikipedia

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    From 1890 on, Germany did pursue world power. This bid arose from deep roots within Germany's economic, political, and social structures. Once the war broke out, world power became Germany's essential goal. [111] However, Schroeder argues that all of that was not the main cause of the war in 1914.

  9. Blockade of Germany - Wikipedia

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    Blockade of Germany may refer to: Blockade of Germany (1914–1919) during World War I; Blockade of Germany (1939–1945) during World War II