World War One

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When, Where and Who? 1914 – 1918 Mostly in Europe Two groups of

countries in the War• The Central Powers• The Allies

The Allies The British Commonwealth France Belgium Russia Serbia Japan Later

• America• Italy

The Central Powers At the beginning of the war

• Germany• Austria – Hungary

Later• Turkey• Bulgaria

After four very long years of fighting the Allies won, but it was very close at times

World War One was a “total war” All the men who could were called up

to fight Many women worked in factories to

replace the men and made guns and ammunition

Effects of the War 10 million men died in the fighting

• That’s 5509 men every day

•Over $180,000,000 dollars was lost•Even the winners were almost bankrupt

•The Austrian and Turkish Empires were broken up•The defeated countries were ruined

Really no one won the First World War – everyone lost.

What did the war change?

People saw Germany as bad and dangerous

The balance of power was changed

Most countries had spent all their money – they were almost bankrupt

But most of all people wanted peace – everyone was sick of war and death