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- - - - Additionally, the war led to the death of countless civilians by way of starvation, disease, and slaughter, which wiped out an entire generation of Europeans.
        
        What strategies new to World War I probably contributed to the destruction of homes, villages and farms?
        
        Trenches took up a large amount of land, and weaponized airplanes destroyed a lot of land.
        
        http://www.100letprve.si/en/world_war_1/casualties/index.html
  - - - While they sought to bring a new sense of security and peace to the world, they prompted mainly anger and resentment.
        
        https://www.scmp.com/yp/discover/lifestyle/features/article/3058235/wwi-centenary-7-peace-treaties-ended-first-world-war
  - - - The great conflict drained the treasuries of European countries.
        
        One account put the total cost of the war at $338 billion, a staggering amount for that time.
        
        The war also destroyed many acres of farmland as well as homes, villages, and towns.
        
        https://study.com/academy/lesson/economic-social-political-consequences-of-the-great-war.html
  - - - It involved the use of new technologies.
        
        It ushered in the notion of war on a grand and global
        scale.
        
        It also left behind a landscape of death and destruction such as was never before seen.
        
        https://news.cnrs.fr/articles/lheritage-de-14-18-partie-1
  - - - The insecurity and despair that many people experienced
        are reflected in the art and literature of the time.
        
        Why might Westerners have experienced disillusionment in the wake of World War I?
        
        Most people were directly affected, as they had friends and family who lost their lives, as well as economically.
        
        https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/themes/civilians
- - - - The German U-boats had sunk the British passenger ship Lusitania. The attack left 1,198 people dead, including 128 Americans dead as well.
        
        Germany had claimed that it was carrying ammunition, which turned out to be true. Nevertheless, the American public was outraged.
        
        The Germans had sent a note to Mexico that was intercepted by the Americans which had said to "reconquer" the land it had lost to the U.S. if Mexico would ally itself with Germany.
        
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        Before America joined the war America was a neutral country. But with the sinking of 2 ships that had Americans on them that made America really close to joining the war, but the Zimmerman note helped push America even farther to the point where America joined the war.
        
        On April 2, 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war so that the United States could enter World War 1.
  - - - The Allies wanted to attack in the Dardanelles because it was a gateway to the Ottoman Empire's Capital.
        
        The Allies started the attack in February of 1915. It was known at the Gallipoli Campaign.
        
        British, Australian, New Zealand, and French troops made repeated assaults on the Gallilopi Peninsula on the western side of the strait.
        
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- - - - The Russian Revolution allowed the Germans to focus on the Western Front, and it also pressured the Americans to send more military and economic aid to the Allies.
        
        By the start of 1917, Russia's domestic economy had collapsed and both food and fuel were critically scarce in Russian cities. This triggered the February Revolution, an uprising that led to the abdication of the tsar and, by the end of 1917, the rise of a socialist government in Russia.
  - - - On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War.
      - Indirect losses for Austria-Hungary can be estimated at 460,000 caused by famine, cold, and epidemics. The effects of First World War were lingering especially in the Austrian Republic, undernourishment and poverty remained a problem.
- - - - Europe had lost more men in battle than in all wars of previous three centuries. The war had claimed the lives of millions and had changed countless lives forever.
        
        The Great War, as the conflict came to be known, affected everyone.
        
        It touched not only the soldiers in the trenches but civilians as well.
        
        How many civilians were killed in WW1?
        
        The total number of deaths includes
        9.7 million military personnel and about 10 million civilians.
      - Why did US join the Allies in WW1?
        
        The U.S. entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble.
        Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles which prompted the American entry into the war.
    - - Progressivism:
        
        Total war meant that governments turned to help form women as never before.
        
        Industralization
        
        Thousands of women replaced men in factories, offices, and shops. Women built tanks and munitions, plowed fields, paved streets, and ran hospitals.
        
        They also kept troops supplied with food, clothing, and weapons.
        
        Although most women left the work force after the war ended, they changed the way people view in society and know they know what they were capable of
        
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        Why did women's work help them?
        
        The fact that women had played an important role during the war simply made it easier for politicians to support a bill. The first instalment of women's suffrage opened the door to a series of important acts which started to redress some of the many inequalities between men and women.
    - - Conflict
        
        WW1 soon became a total war. This meant that countries devoted all their resources to the war effort.
        
        In Britain, Germany, Austria, Russia, and France, the entire force of goverment was dedicated to winning the conflict.
        
        In each country, the wartime government took control of the economy. Governments told factories what to produce and how much
        
        A lot of facilities were converted into munition factories. Nearly every able-bodied civilian was put to work, so unemployment in many European countries all but disappeared
        
        A lot of goods were in short supply that governments turn into rationing.
        
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        Why did the wartime governments take control of their countries' economies ?
        
        They took control because they would tell factories what to produce and how much so they had enough supplies for the war.