After Affects of WWI

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After Affects of WWI

WWI was, at its time, the largest and most destructive war planet Earth had ever seen. Some countries lost millions of lives and nearly an entire generation. The war casted the world into massive debt and Europe was almost totally razed. The Allies sought revenge and not so surprisingly, they found it. The Treaty of Versailles stated that Germany must accept total fault for the war. Germany was forced to pay reparation money, which it did not have, to the Allies. This drove Germany into greater debt than any other country in the world. Its population felt wronged and cheated. This series of events led to far reaching consequences, ranging from the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany to the creation of countries such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austria, and Iraq. All of whom have had ethnic conflicts within the last thirty years.

After WWI Europe as well as the world was completely decimated, every major military power in the world was forced into economic recession and almost entire generations were lost for most countries. France was a preverbal rubble yard having been the main event in most of WWI and counted 1.3 million dead. However they were not the only country with a death count as Russia had a counted 1.7 million killed in the war, Great Brittan had 908,000 killed, and Germany with 1.7 million soldiers killed in the war. But a compounding factor was added onto the shoulders of Germany as they were forced to not only admit full guilt for the war but also to pay war reparations to the allies in specific Great Britton and France. Having already been hit with the physical after affects of the war this compounding factor put them into a dangerous downward spiral. Because of America’s late entry to the war ...

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