Results of World War 1

World War I devastated Europe and brought unprecedented human suffering. There were more than 38 million military and civilian casualties: 17 million deaths and over 20 million wounded, and a toll of $186 billion in direct costs, and an $151 billion in indirect costs. [1] The allied powers negotiated the Treaty of Versailles, which officially brought the war to end in June of 1919, with very limited participation by Germany. The provisions of the treaty primarily blamed Germany for the war, and imposed unreasonable terms that were responsible for German expansion, hyperinflation, and economic downfall, and eventually led directly to World War II. [2]

The First World War was a huge event which ended abruptly; going from huge German advances after March 1918 to Germany asking for peace later that year: they were forced from a hard hitting offensive to defeat for various reasons:

World war 1 was known as the end of all wars, the great war and a total war that started on July 28, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918. World war 1 caused everyone to revolve, increase in new technology, civilians, rations, war bonds, and funding the war. Throughout World War 1 there were destructions in nations which involved people dying, roads being destroyed and contributed to many soldiers facing hunger and injuries. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary is what caused World War 1 to commence. Therefore, World War 1 was pervaded with the presence of destruction contributing to the misfortune of civilians, and the involvement of propaganda which established the war to be a total war.

Almost a century has passed but Australia still identifies strongly with the Anzac ‘legend' that emerged during the First World War. Entering the war as a small outpost of the British Empire, no one would have anticipated the courage and tenacity displayed by the Australian troops or the extent to which their war efforts would become the foundation of our national identity.

The Great War, or World War I, ended in 1918 with the Treaty of Paris. It marked the beginning of a new era. During the war, there was a boom in the economy and employment was easy to find. The damage the war caused on the land in Europe was catastrophic; with the trenches and heavy artillery and machinery being used to destroy each other and take cities, it is amazing that there was anything left. Many people, soldiers and civilians, died during the war. After World War I, many countries gained their independence, and many countries suffered severe economic debt due to the expensive war reparations.

World War began in 1914 and ended in 1918. World War 1 affected American society because America constantly feared the outcomes of the war and the results of migration.

This sort of environment was the perfect place for the Spanish influenza to begin its deadly streak. On March 11, the first cases of the Spanish flu showed up. The doctors did not worry; they believed it was just the flu. However, case after case of influenza came in, and by the week’s end, 522 people were sick. In the end, 48 soldiers died of influenza, and all their deaths were listed as pneumonia because of their frightening symptoms: labored breathing, violent coughs and nosebleeds, high fever, fluid filling the lungs, etc. However, quite suddenly, the influenza disappeared from Fort Riley (Iezzoni 23-24) and followed the path forged by the soldiers rushing to World War 1. It eventually spread around the world (Billings 2).

The 1918 influenza outbreak remains one of the world’s greatest pandemic, it caused more casualties than the Nazis and far more than the two atomic bombs that dropped on Japan . It also hastened the end of World War I. The influenza virus arose among the army camps of Kansas, infected soldiers carried the disease by rail to army and navy centers on the East and South Coast. The epidemic continued to spread globally, hundreds of thousands of U.S. soldiers who embarked to France carried the virus to Europe and the British Isles, the influenza then moved to Africa via Sierra Leone, where the British had a major coaling station. Dockworkers who helped in refueling the ships contracted the infection and they spread the highly contagious virus

"The 1918 has gone: a year momentous as the termination of the most cruel war in the annals of the human race; a year which marked, the end at least for a time, of man's destruction of man; unfortunately a year in which developed a most fatal infectious disease causing the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Medical science for four and one-half years devoted itself to putting men on the firing line and keeping them there. Now it must turn with its whole might to combating the greatest enemy of all--infectious disease (Billings, 2005)." The influenza in 1919 was much bigger than a cold. In the two years that this disease swept the world one fifth of the population was infected. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of death was unusual for influenza which usually killed the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans. An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during this pandemic, about ten times as many as in World War 1. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them were killed by the influenza virus and not to the enemy. An estimated 43,000 soldiers who were sent for WWI died of influenza. The worldwide influenza epidemic adversely affected the U.S., both in the states and the soldiers at war. Subsequently, in the lack of medicine, lack of skilled doctors, and the lack of soldier preparation.

There was much destruction in the wake of the first World War. Millions of people had been killed or disablitated by this devastating war. Housing and whole towns were left in ruin with nothing more then rumble to mark where they had been. Millions of people were starving in German as a result of the Hunger Blockade. Needless to say it was time for peace but the ending of World War I wasn't all that peaceful as was hoped.

In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was with in Austria hungary. When Serbian member Gavrilo Princip killed him and his wife from the black hand. Serbia was a new country and were going to create a larger country that shared their cultural background.This is why they needed land from

Before World War I, the countries of Europe competed with one another in a race to colonize the world. The end of World War I brought national sovereignty, and an end to colonization to the forefront of the Allies’ concerns as they drew up plans for peace, and as a result, the Allied countries received former enemy colonies to watch over and guide to independence1. As a result of this mandate system, among other colonies, France received Syria. Instead of guiding Syria to independence, however, as the conflict dragged on, France forgot its mission and attempted to subdue Syrian resistance to her humanitarian efforts. This paper will address the following questions: Who is more to blame for the violence, the Syrians or the French? What did

World War 1 caused the complete collapse Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungarian empire. WW1 also sounded the death for the monarchs in Germany and Russia. After the war the allied troops got together and created the treaty of Versailles the treaty was created to end the war and the friction between the

World War One (WWI) was a war that occurred from July 1914 to November 1918. It was a war that involved 32 countries but the Treaty of Versailles only blamed one, Germany. The Treaty of Versailles was an official document that ended WWI. The Treaty took place on June 28th 1919 in France. The Treaty of Versailles was not fair to Germany, because Germany received 100% blame, a huge debt, and military restrictions.

On November 11,1918, World War I has come to an end. The whole world believed that they would not have endure in such a terrible war ever again. Though, they did have the treaties signed and the alliances formed for that belief to come true, that was not the case. In 1939, the world was plunged into World War II because of the Treaty of Versailles along with Hitler’s demand of power and territory,making collective security the most effective response to aggression.