| Summary |
During the course of the First World War German submarines sank over 160,000 tons of merchant tonnage along the eastern seaboard oft he United States. America's entry into the war was largely due to previous German submarine activities in Europe. That these attacks failed to prevent the collapse of Germany, and the eventual outcome of Versailles meant that historians have often overlooked this era, especially since German attacks on the eastern seaboard during World War II were far more spectacular. Over the course oft he first seven months of 1942, German submarines sank over three million tons of allied shipping off the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada. A comparative anoft hes ofthe two periods will show that the First World War actually came closer to achieving Germany's goals of bottling American forces in their home waters and preventing their ability to intervene on the European continent than the more "spectacular" attacks in World War II. This analysis will focus on issues related to the effectiveness of Anti-Submarine Warfare in both periods, relative efficiency and cost effectiveness of the operations and the impact which each set of operations had upon the Allied war effort. In all three areas the First World War era operations were far more effective. |
| General note | Presented to the faculty of the Department of History. |
| General note | Advisor: Michael A. Palmer |
| Dissertation note | M.A. East Carolina University 2006 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 155-159). |
| Genre/form | dissertations. |
| Genre/form | doctoral dissertations. |
| Genre/form | masters theses. |
| Genre/form | theses. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Academic theses. |
| Genre/form | Thèses et écrits académiques. |
