The Influence of Economic Factors
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- The influence of economic factors
- Revolutionary 1792-1802
- Following the outbreak of the revolution inflation grew dramatically leading to shortages by 1790. Hitting the poor the hardest
- Industry increased overall
- CPS established 20 Sword and bayonet factories and 12 new canon and gun factories
- France and Uk got countries to accept a paper currecny which avoided high inflation
- Napoleonic 1803 - 1815
- Helped the economy to recover
- Napoleon hoped continental system would hit British economy and make it harder for them to pay its £ 65.8 million in subsidiaries to allies
- Continental system led to french over-extension
- Napoleon not interested in developing Balloon observation and wellington not interested in Congreve rockets (1804)
- The success of Britain in north Africa in 1942 depended on the mass build up of supplies in Egypt
- Napoleon had access to the countries resources led to improvement in road conditions
- Crimean 1851-1853
- British industrial strength did not prevent disaster - charge of light brigade
- American Civil 1861-1865
- Post civil war economic growth did not produce a vast army or any new military hardware
- North Union Blockade on southern cotton
- WW1 1914-1918
- Concern of Naval supremacy --> 400% ^ in naval expenditure £10.8 mill (1884) to £48.8 million (1914)
- business men brought into government
- British war production increased as a whole --> able to sustain warfare
- russian shell prudction went from 450,000 a month in 1915 to 4.5 million in 1916
- U-boat economic warfare responsible for US entry in1917
- WW2 1939-45
- Germany 1936 had established state control over industry
- French and British economic problems rearmament effected
- Despite England having superior economic resources than the Japanese due to the leadership of Yamashita the British lost Singapore in 1942
- ability of USSR to counter attack in 1943 depended on the ability to mass produce tanks and heavy artillery
- The success of Britain in north Africa in 1942 depended on the mass build up of supplies in Egypt
- Revolutionary 1792-1802
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