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Impact of WW1 - Coggle Diagram
Impact of WW1
Social Impact
Homes destroyed
Many civilians died due to the war
People can't go to other countries
Food shortages
Grow much more food was required
Women doing farm jobs instead of men
Massive Loss of life
The women got many more jobs
Area the size of Wales destroyed by fighting
Spanish Fly kills 50 million people
Many refugees with no home to return to
Many soldiers returned home disabled
Political Impact
Countries borders redrawn
Goverments under pressure
Many countries given economic autonomy
Many Germans hated the treaty of Versailles
Women can vote in 1918
Many royal families dissolved across europe
End of the british empire
League of Nations set up
Economic Impact
Huge costs to war > pay for damages
112 coal mines destroyed
Lots of infrastructure gone
UK went from one of the biggest countries to the biggest debtors
UK nearly went bankrupt
300,000 houses destroyed and 6000 factories destroyed in France alone
Life for soldiers in the trenches
PTSS
Shell Shock
Trench foot
Dysentery would be very rampant
Rat infested and flooded trenches would happen alot
Soldiers wash kit would be very important