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  Aftermath of World War I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
With the war ended, under the Treaty of Versailles, nearly 15 percent of the land area of the German Empire was ceded at Allied insistence to various countries.
With the war having turned decisively against the Central Powers, the peoples of the Austro-Hungarian Empire lost faith in it, and even before the armistice in November, radical nationalism had already lead to several declarations of independence in September and October 1918.
At the end of the war the Ottoman government collapsed completely and the Ottoman Empire was divided amongst the victorious powers with the signing of the Treaty of Sèvres on August 10, 1920.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aftermath_of_World_War_I   (3554 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Aftermath of World War I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas.
World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that engulfed much of the...
The Turkish War of Independence is a part of the History of Turkey that spans from the defeat of the Ottoman Empire by the Allies in World War I to the declaration of the Republic of Turkey on October 29, 1923.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Aftermath-of-World-War-I   (9157 words)

  
 Aftermath of World War I - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This article, the Aftermath of World War I, continues from the main World War I article due to the length of the text.
Despite the perceived humiliations of the peace (or perhaps because of it), Germany honoured its war heroes and commemorated its victories, notably with the construction in 1927 of a massive monument at Tannenberg to their victory there over the Russians.
At the end of the war the Ottoman government collapsed completely and the Ottoman Empire was divided amongst the victorious powers in the Treaty of Sèvres.
open-encyclopedia.com /Aftermath_of_World_War_I   (3097 words)

  
 Aftermath of World War I -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Perhaps the single most important event precipitated by the privations of the war was the (The revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917) Russian Revolution.
The economic disruption of the war and the end of the Austro-Hungarian (An association of nations to promote free trade within the union and set common tariffs for nations that are not members) customs union created great hardship in many areas.
Many people believed that the war heralded the end of the world as they had known it, including the collapse of (An economic system based on private ownership of capital) capitalism and (A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries) imperialism.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/af/aftermath_of_world_war_i.htm   (3123 words)

  
 Aftermath: Page One
The ordered rows of headstones in the hundreds of war cemeteries in France and Belgium and elsewhere are a constant reminder of the terrible carnage between 1914 and 1918.
The aftermath years were a time of paradox, where the men who returned from the horrors of the trenches wanted to forget, and where those who had stayed behind, and had lost husbands and brothers, and sons and fathers were equally determined never to forget.
It was a world where questioning whether the war had been right was attacked as a slur on the memory of the dead.
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 World War I -> Aftermath and Reckoning on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
World War I and the resulting peace treaties (see Versailles, Treaty of ; Saint-Germain, Treaty of ; Trianon, Treaty of ; Neuilly, Treaty of ; Sèvres, Treaty of) radically changed the face of Europe and precipitated political, social, and economic changes.
By the Treaty of Versailles Germany was forced to acknowledge guilt for the war.
Yet when World War I ended, the immense suffering it had caused gave rise to a general revulsion to any kind of war, and a large part of mankind placed its hopes in the newly created League of Nations.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/ww1_aftermathandreckoning.asp   (961 words)

  
 World War II -> Aftermath and Reckoning on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Despite the birth of the United Nations, the world remained politically unstable and only slowly recovered from the incalculable physical and moral devastation wrought by the largest and most costly war in history.
The suffering and degradation of the war's victims were of proportions that passed the understanding of those who had been spared.
The conventions of warfare had been violated on a large scale (see war crimes), and warfare itself was revolutionized by the development and use of nuclear weapons.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/WW2_AftermathandReckoning.asp   (901 words)

  
 Homework Helpers - World War One   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
World War One: A Narrative / by Philip Warner.
On the origins of war and the preservation of peace / by Donald Kagan.
Australia in World War I: Moving images from the collections of the Australian War Memorial and the National Film and Sound Archive / by Australian War Memorial.
www.canterbury.nsw.gov.au /library/homezone/worldwarone.htm   (647 words)

  
 Commentary Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Some of this happened even in World War II, perhaps the most popular war the United States has ever fought, and much more of it in World War III (that is, the cold war); and now it is happening again, notably with respect to Iraq.
In World War II and then in World War III, we persisted in spite of impatience, discouragement, and opposition for as long as it took to win, and this is exactly what we have been called upon to do today in World War IV.
A strong adherent of the "realist" perspective on world affairs, he believed that the maintenance of stability was the proper purpose of American foreign policy, and the only wise and prudential course to follow.
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 In the Trenches | The Soldier's Experience in World War I
Art of the First World War: it is to be hoped that this commemorative site of art from some of the great museums of Europe will remain up for a long time.
World War One Records and Soldiers' Questionnares at the Virginia State Library: a new and extremely useful source for anyone researching subjects relating to American soldiers in the war.
The Great War and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century: sadly, this flawed series is probably the last documentary we will have on the subject for years.
www.people.virginia.edu /~egl2r/wwi.html   (1333 words)

  
 war and social upheaval: World War II -- aftermath in Germany : occupation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
War and Social Upheaval: World War II Aftermath in Germany--Occupation
Before the War, only about 40 percent of the food was produced in the west and the War damage had significantly impaired food production.
Allied soldiers as a result of losses of friends in the War and then the discovery of the concentration camps harbored much bittrness toward the Germansin the early stageof the occupation.
histclo.hispeed.com /essay/war/ww2/after/ger/ga-occ.html   (1456 words)

  
 H102 Lecture 15: The Politics of Prosperity: The 1920s
World War I may not have made the world safe for democracy, but it did create a favorable situation for the American consumer.
The decade of the 1920s, or as it was called by its contemporaries, "The New Era," was marked by prosperity and new opportunity in the aftermath of World War I. The war began in Europe in 1914, and the United States entered the fray in 1917.
A fledgling industry before World War I, the motion picture industry took off in the 1920s, becoming one of the ten largest industries in the U.S. In 1922, theaters sold 40 million tickets a week; by 1929, that number had grown to 100 million a week.
us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/textonly/lecture15.html   (2144 words)

  
 The Aftermath of World War Three | Under Construction - RPG Chat
It was the year 2276, and the world had been turned upside down.
Wars raged, blood was shed, and a group called the Raeaneans had taken control of some of the last living civilizations.
Before they would resort to war, a band of messangers were sent on their long journey across the continent to try to peacefully get their "brother" back....
forums.rpgchat.com /showthread.php?p=1714799#post1714799   (1816 words)

  
 World War I's Aftermath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
World War I's Aftermath: Attack on Civil Liberties and Betrayal at Versailles
Following the war, a number of strikes, particularly in the steel industry, alarmed Americans.
U.S. is now the world's leading economic power and largest trading nation.
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 Amazon.com: Books: The Great War and Modern Memory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fussell documents how World War I gave us the standardized form, the wristwatch, daylight savings time, civilian censorship and bureaucratic euphemism--and for the first time, despair that technology was driving civilization into perpetual war.
Many believe that the Great War sparked the advent of modernism, and that the lives of a whole generation of youth that came of age during that war was forever changed.
War is not an imaginable event, and yet we as conscious humans need to give war a face that we can live with...
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195133323?v=glance   (2865 words)

  
 Aftermath: Newsclips - First World War veterans honoured in Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Eleven British first world war veterans, the oldest 104, yesterday attended a ceremony at Les Invalides in Paris at which the youngest of them, Fred Bunday, 98, was awarded France's highest honour
Mr Bunday, from Sidcup, Kent, whose father was a naval pallbearer at Queen Victoria's funeral and whose son recently retired as a commander in the Royal Navy, said he considered himself "a very lucky young man to be in good enough health for the trip."
The ceremony, organised by the World War One Veterans' Association, went ahead despite the death last Monday of William Southern, 100, who served with the 2nd Welsh Regiment at the Somme and Passchendaele and was also due to be awarded the medal and ribbons by a retired French general, Jean Guinard.
www.aftermathww1.com /bunday.asp   (281 words)

  
 Aftermath of WWII - World War II links - Modern World - GCSE - SchoolHistory.co.uk
Essential for a proper understanding of the aftermath of war.
Text of the famous speech from the end of the European War.
Extremely detailed explanation of the causes of the Cold war, beginning with the consequences of World War II and the mistrust between the Allies.
www.schoolhistory.co.uk /gcselinks/wars/secondwwlinks/aftermath.html   (267 words)

  
 World War I "The Great War"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
World War I, The League of Nations Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes
You also had women who suddenly had to earn a living while their husbands were off to war and there was a lot of prejudice against females in the workplace.
World War I Horse: The role of horse in World War One
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 GI -- World War II Commemoration
New York City's Times Square became the focus of celebrations and sudden affections in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
A dense column of smoke rises over Nagasaki, Japan, after the second atomic bomb was dropped by the U.S. The defendants' dock is shown here during the post-war trials for war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany.
Gaunt prisoners of war at Aomori camp near Yokohama cheer rescuers from the U.S. Navy on August 29, 1945.
gi.grolier.com /wwii/photos/wwii_photos.html   (418 words)

  
 Internet Modern History Sourcebook: World War I
Documents of World War I, [At Mt. Holyoke]
Rosa Luxemburg: "The War and the Workers": The Junius Pamphlet, 1916 [At H-Net]
World War I Poetry, Poems by Siegfried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, and others [At this Site]
www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook38.html   (641 words)

  
 World War I -> Aftermath and Reckoning on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I'm starting to like this, says war hero aged 109.
World's permanent war crimes tribunal expects two to three new cases every year
After World War I, the Bridge across the Jordan River linking Israel to Jordan, was named the ALLENBY BRIDGE after the General Allenby the Commander of the British forces who conquered the (PAR103925)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/WW1_AftermathandReckoning.asp   (918 words)

  
 World War I
World War I, The League of Nations Protocol - October 1920
World War I, The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
War's Cruel Scythe: the Health of Australian Soldiers in the First World War
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 Andrija Štampar - A New Era at the Zagreb Medical School (The Aftermath of World War II)
A New Era at the Zagreb Medical School (The Aftermath of World War II)
The result of his work in internment in his book 'The Physician, His Past and Future' (1946), a monograph on the past of the medical profession, on the merits of physicians, and the scope of their work, their position and tasks in the contemporary world, with a short reference to their prospects in the future.
The School organized postgraduate courses on public health, environmental sanitation, occupational health, social pediatrics, nursing, anesthesiology, etc. According to Štampar's intentions, the School was meant to take over the organization of all postgraduate medical training.
www.snz.hr /astampar/andrijastampar7.html   (502 words)

  
 BBC - WW2 People's War - Clearing up the Aftermath of World War II - A4163618
Clearing up the Aftermath of World War II By 2nd Air Division Memorial Library
This story was submitted to the People's War site by Jenny Christian of the 2nd Air Division Memorial Library on behalf of Sydney Edward Miller and has been added to the site with his permission.
Most of the content on this site is created by our users, who are members of the public.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A4163618   (362 words)

  
 History, Modern Eureop: World War II & Aftermath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
History, Modern Eureop: World War II and Aftermath
World War II Resources (Pearl Harbor Working Group)
Institute on World War II and the Human Experience (Florida State University)
qcpages.qc.cuny.edu /Library/online/guides/subjwww/histweb/euwwii.html   (87 words)

  
 The Aftermath of World War I
To make France secure from any further German threats
To make Germany pay the cost of the war
Five separate treaties made with Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
www.uofdjesuit.org /faculty/buchtar/42WWIPeaceout.htm   (132 words)

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