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Sherman believed that the quickest way to end the war was to deprive the army of the means to fight and destroy the civilians' will to support the war was to annihilate the infrastructure that supported the war effort: the agriculture, transportation, communications, and manufacturing capability of the enemy. When there was no food, no munitions, no clothing, and no means to produce it, the will of the South to continue was broken.
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Expain the concept of total war?
Total war is when you involve all aspects of society in war, not just soldiers.
How did the shermans march change the war?
By shortening the war by months at almost nil casualties.
What offers the best reasoning behind William Tecumseh shermans strategy of using total war to defeat the south?
Sherman's March to the Sea shortened the war by at least six months, at almost nil casualties.
What city in Georgia was set aflame by shermans army?
Atlanta, as part of his war plan.
What was grant's concept of total war?
It wasn't Grant who practiced total war, but Sherman. He decided that if he wiped out all crops, rail road routes, burned cities that the south would give in. After the war Sherman was asked to practice total war on the plains tribes by killing the buffalo herds.
What did Shermans march to Atlanta have in common with Hiroshima in 1945?
In its' day, it represented "Total War", just as the Atomic Bomb did in WWII.
Expain the concept of total war?
Total war is when you involve all aspects of society in war, not just soldiers.
Why do you think shermans total war made it hard for the south and the north to reconcile after the war?
Because he had targeted civilians and smashed up the whole infrastructure of Georgia and South Carolina.
How did shermans policy of total war hasten the ens of the civil war?
It deprived the Confederate armies of food, and interrupted rail movement by troops and civilians. It also devastated morale.
How did the shermans march change the war?
By shortening the war by months at almost nil casualties.
What was Sherman's concept total war?
Destroy Everything. EVERYTHING!
What offers the best reasoning behind William Tecumseh shermans strategy of using total war to defeat the south?
Sherman's March to the Sea shortened the war by at least six months, at almost nil casualties.
Who was shermans?
William Tecumseh Sherman was an Union commanding general in the Civil war.
What battle of the civil war began shermans burning of georgia?
The Battle of Atlanta.
The concept of total war means that?
it involved a complete mobilization of resources and people.
What city in Georgia was set aflame by shermans army?
Atlanta, as part of his war plan.
What is Total war and its significance to world war 1?
Total War is when a military uses all of their forces which include air force, forces attacking on water and soldiers attacking on land. Its significance to ww1 is that this is were the concept total war was developed.
