World War I began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire which were known as he central powers fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States know as the allied powers. The new military technologies and the trench warfare, World War I saw so much carnage and destruction. When the war became to come to an end and the Allied Powers claimed victory, over 16 million people were dead. World War I probably had many consequences. It had more than any other war. From a political stand point it resulted in the downfall of four monarchies which was Russia in 1917, Austria-Hungary and Germany in 1918, and in Turkey in 1922. It contributed to the Bolshevik rise to power in Russia in 1917 and the triumph of fascism in Italy in 1922. It started colonial revolts in the Middle East and in Southeast Asia.World war 1 really messed up the economy especially the European economies. When that happen it allowed the United States to become the world's leading creditor and industrial power. The war also brought many social problems that wasn’t needed, including the mass murder of Armenians in Turkey and an influenza epidemic that killed over 25 million people worldwide. It got way out of hand nothing anybody seen coming. No one thought a war like world war 1 could happen it caught everyone off guard. It really messed up both the people who won and who lost. In a single day at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, more than 100,000 British troops plodded across no-man's land into steady machine gunfire. The German trenches a few yards away, Some 60,000 soldiers were killed or wounded. At the end of the battle, 419,654 British men were killed, missing, or wounded.
Nice post! I agree that with the downfall of Russia and Germany it created an easy way for someone to come to power and take over the country since they were left so weak after the war. This is where Putin, Stalin and Hitler were able to take over their countries and then became a cause of WW2. The consequences of WW1 were great and there was a lot of destruction to go along with that all over Europe. I enjoyed reading your post
ReplyDeleteGreat Post ,I agree no one seen it coming . For instance , along with the decline of industrial power the united states faced major debt after the war.There were also major achievements after the war . The united states became a world power and military power . The amount of people killed could have drove the United States to change how they fought back in war .
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