What were two ways that the idea of total war was used in world war i?

a. governments focused on the war rather than the economy.
b. governments equipped, transported, and supported millions of troops.
c. governments raised taxes to pay for the war effort.
d. governments borrowed supplies from neutral nations to draw them into the war.

The correct answers are B and C, as in total war, governments equipped, transported, and supported millions of troops; and raised taxes to help pay for the war effort.

Total war is a term of the twentieth century that describes a war in which nations mobilize and force to the limit all available resources, whether human, military, industrial, agricultural, natural, technological, scientific, or of any other kind, to totally destroy the ability of another country or nation to engage in a war. Total war meant the complete subordination of politics to war.