Effects of the War (text pp. 63-64)
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Effects of the War (text pp. 63-64) International Effects a) Casualties • 10 million dead and 20 million wounded • This doesn’t include those who died of starvation afterwards.
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Effects of the War (text pp. 63-64). 1. International Effects. a) Casualties. 10 million dead and 20 million wounded. This doesn’t include those who died of starvation afterwards. b) Cost. $200 billion in 1918 money; over $1 trillion in today’s money. c) Ottoman Empire. 1914. 1919. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Effects of the War(text pp. 63-64)
1. International Effects
a) Casualties
• 10 million dead and 20 million wounded• This doesn’t include those who died of starvation afterwards.
b) Cost
• $200 billion in 1918 money; over $1 trillion in today’s money
c) Ottoman Empire1914 1919
d) Austria-Hungary—broken up1914 1919
e) Poland—finally independent
f) Monarchies replaced by democracies…
…Russia communist
g) Germany takes blame and pays for the war.
f) Refugees all over Europe
2. Canadian Effects
a) Canada gets its own seat at the League of Nations
Separate from Britain
b) Women get recognition—and the vote in 1917
c) Canadian troops (CEF) get recognized.
PasschendaeleVimy Ridge
d) Canada’s population increases by immigration.
e) Economic growth during and after the war
f) War debt--$3 billion
g) “Temporary” income tax
h) 60,000 Canadians killed and 178,000 wounded
i) Conscription—tensions between English and French Canadians
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