1. Great Britain and Empire947,000 France1,360,000 Germany1,800,000 Italy615,000 Some of the figures for soldiers killed in action in the First World War

3. Europe after the Treaties of Versailles and St Germain, 1919

4. The Treaty of Versailles The treaty which Germany was forced to sign at the end of the First World War in 1919 contained several terms which many Germans found humiliating: - Germany was to have an army no bigger than 100,000 men. - The Germans were not allowed to have any tanks, submarines or military aircraft in the armed forces. - Germany lost 13 per cent of her territory to other countries. - Germany had to pay £ 6000 million in gold to Britain and France as compensation for starting the war.

5. More than anything I hated to see war crippled men standing in the gutter selling matches. We had been promised a land fit for heroes; it took a hero to live in it. I‘d never fight for my country again. Private W.A. Turner quoted in M. Middlebrook, The First Day on the Somme, 1971

6. Why cannot our children be taught that the seeds of the Second World War were well and truly sown in that Treaty and although there was a twenty year period of germination the bloody harvest of the Second World War was inevitable? Why not explain that the vengeful [punishing] Treaty of Versailles provided very fertile ground for the madman Hitler to brainwash the German people with his warlike Nazi philosophy...? W.H.A. Groom, Poor Bloody Infantry

8. An unemployed disabled ex-serviceman in 1921

10. A peace demonstration in Britain in the 1930s