pg 86-98 q's

Yo peeps what up? So I wanted to bring up the point that the peoples opinions don't always matter.  One example of this is  the people in Russia.  Through out the course of the war there were many anti-war strikes.  On March 10 1917 there was a riot. Tsarist troops were ordered to open fire.  40 civilians were killed.  The Tsar had hoped to end all strikes with this act, but in reality it only encouraged more people to join the demonstrations.  I feel like continuing with the war while the people were striking only added more problems to the war efforts because while the soldiers were fighting on the fronts they also needed to control the civilians.  In addition to the people striking there was also 300,000 factory workers that went on strikes.  With out the factory workers it would make it hard to gather needed supplies.  I believe that continuing with the war without the support of the people caused more problems for Russia than they needed. 

World War I war tactics lead to the development of stalemates on both eastern and western fronts.  Although countries such as Germany were able to push forward and gain land through the use of infantry tanking, this allowed them to push through enemy lines and drove the allies back. The use of infantry tanking lead to the loss of many lives and Germans soon became tired and their exhaustion gave the allies time to regroup and Britain was able to push Germany back to their original fronts using their tanks.  This lead to a stalemate because although Germans were able to break through lines they could not hold their position leading to a counter that pushed them back to their original lines.  Stalemates on the Russian front developed because the Russians spread their armies thin on the frontier but were heavily fortified at bases along the way, while Germany could take the frontier they could not take the fortified points leaving them at a draw.  I think that with different war tactics were used there would have been a decisive winner of the war and the war could have ended much sooner than it did.