{"id":8056,"date":"2024-09-27T21:31:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/?post_type=mcq&#038;p=8056"},"modified":"2024-09-27T21:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:31:01","slug":"what-did-total-war-mean-in-the-context-of-shermans-strategy","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/what-did-total-war-mean-in-the-context-of-shermans-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"What did &#8220;total war&#8221; mean in the context of Sherman&#8217;s strategy?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[1676],"subject":[19,1611,12],"class_list":["post-8056","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-shermans-march-to-the-sea","subject-history","subject-usa-history","subject-united-states-of-america"],"mcq_note":"<strong>In the context of General William Tecumseh Sherman\u2019s strategy during the Civil War, \"total war\" referred to his approach of destroying not just Confederate armies but also the economic and psychological capacity of the South to continue fighting<\/strong>.\r\n\r\nThis included targeting infrastructure, supply lines, and civilian property, exemplified in his infamous \"March to the Sea,\" where he and his troops marched from Atlanta to Savannah, causing widespread destruction. Sherman's strategy aimed to break the Southern populace's will and hasten the war's end.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Targeting only military forces"},{"right":"yes","answer":"Waging war against both the enemy's military and civilian resources"},{"right":"no","answer":"Seeking immediate peace"},{"right":"no","answer":"Limiting battles to certain areas"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":19,"title":"History","slug":"history"},{"id":1611,"title":"History of the United States","slug":"usa-history"},{"id":12,"title":"United States of America","slug":"united-states-of-america"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":1676,"title":"Sherman&#039;s March to the Sea","slug":"shermans-march-to-the-sea"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/8056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8056"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=8056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}