Consequences of world war 1

1. The consequences of World War I

2. The consequences of WW I were...

3. 1. Economic
and social

4. 2. Human
(casualties and
injuries)

5. 3. Ideological

6. 4. Political

7. Consequences of WW I
1. Economic and social
consequences

8. During the war...
●The economic efforts of each country were
focused on winning the war.
● Trade unions supported the war, and
momentanously forgot their labour demands.
●As many male soldiers were on the war fronts,
women played and important rol in factories
(weapons, chemical, etc.)

9. After the war had ended...
● European countries (especially Great Britan and
France) were in bankrupcy due to all the
expenses of the war. That was because:
- European countries had asked for loans to the
United States.
- The European governments had issued too
much money, which provoked a tremendous
inflation.

10. ●The United States
became the first world
power because:
- there had not been
any fighting in the
US territory.
- European countries
owed lots of money
to the US.
- They had abundant
reserves of gold.

11. Consequences of WW I
2. Casualties

12. Approximately 9 million
soldiers died on the
fronts.

13. Thousands of
civilians died of
hunger, and the
terrible flu of 1918.

14. Many people suffered
psychological
disturbances, and many
others were severely
wounded.

15. Millions of people had escaped from their
countries fearing mass murder.
1,500,000 Armenian civilians were killed by the
Turks, which is considered a horrible genocide.

16. 3. Ideological consequences
Consequences of WW I

17. ●Some intelectuals were persecuted in their own
countries because they did not agree with the war.
●Some socialists criticized the war because they
considered it to be a capitalist war, but others
supported it for patriotic reasons.
●Liberalism was criticised as WW I was seen as
one of its consequences.

18. Consequences of WW I
4. Political consequences

19. The peace of Paris (1919)
● The peace treaties were not negotiated, but
imposed to the losing countries by France, The
UK, The US and Italy.
●The Treaty of Versailles was the most important
peace treaty. Germany:
- was blamed for the war. Germany’s army
was limited to 100,000 soldiers.
- Germany would have to reimburse all the
war expenses to the winning nations. This was
also a way to weaken Germany, and created a
state of revenge within the country.

20. Germany’s territorial loses
●Alsace and Loraine
were returned to
France.
●Some territories were
given to Belgium
●Some of its territory
was ceded to Poland
(the Danzig corridor).
●Some was given to
Denmark

21. The treaty of Versailles
was seen as humiliating
by the Germans due to
its harsh conditions.
This would partially
allow the rise of the
nazis to power in 1933.

22. Territorial changes
The Austro-Hungarian
empire disappeared
New States:
●Czechoslovakia
●Hungary
●Austria
●Romania extended its
territory.

23. New countries
●Poland.
●Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
and Finland (previously part
of Russia).
●Yugoslavia (a multinational
country) was created.
●The Ottoman Empire
disappeared, and modern
Turkey was created.

24. The Wilson
fourteen points
President Wilson of the
US suggested the
creation of a new system
of diplomacy between
nations which objective
should be keeping world
peace.
- It included the creation
of a League of Nations
which was the
antecedent of the United
Nations.
- However, it was a failure
partially because the
United States did not
enter the League in the
end.