RESULTS of WWI and TREATY of VERSAILLES PPT 2
Results of the War
**Outcomes and global effects of World War I: Colonies’ participation in the war, increased demands for independence End of the Russian Imperial, Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian Empires. Enormous cost of the war in lives, property, and social disruption. 37-40 million casualties.
Sikh British Soldiers in India
Fighting in Africa Black Soldiers in the German Schutztruppen [German E. Africa] British Sikh Mountain Gunners
3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade Fighting in Africa 3rd British Battalion, Nigerian Brigade
Fighting in Salonika, Greece French colonial marine infantry from Cochin, China - 1916
World War I brought the end to which empires?
**1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic: Spreads and Depletes All Armies **50,000,000 – 100,000,000 died worldwide
9,000,000 Dead
The Somme American Cemetary, France
“Paths of Glory” C. R. W. Nevinson, 1917
AMERICAN CASUALTIES WWI 116,516 KILLED 320,500 TOTAL CASUALTIES
Treaty of Versailles, signed July 28, 1919
**The “Big Three” at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, 1919 President Woodrow Wilson, U.S.A. Prime Minister David Lloyd George, G.B. President Georges Clemenceau, Fr. Oooops….
Don’t forget about me! It’s the “Big Four!” Premier Vittorio Orlando of Italy
Wilson’s Fourteen Points- Plan for PEACE Freedom of the Seas Disarmament New boundaries of countries/Loser countries lose colonies LEAGUE of NATIONS *Some of these were used in the Treaty of Versailles
1919-TREATY of VERSAILLES *Germany forced to accept the war guilt clause– total and sole guilt for causing the war Germany must give up some of its territory—especially the Alsace-Lorraine which they took from France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. Germany must pay war reparations Germany’s military is severely limited League of Nations-international group of former Allied nations to try and stop future wars-no military power *(Suggested in Wilson’s Fourteen Points)
1919-Treaty of Versailles-cont’d New boundaries-New countries formed MANDATE SYSTEM-loser countries’ colonies taken over by winners temporarily.*