Death, or the fear and proximity of death, became an everyday experience.ĭeath reigned during the ‘battles of material’ at Verdun and the Somme in 1916. Plagues andĭisease accounted for another 3 million lives lost. For the first time,Ī generation had to come to grips with death in massive numbers: 9 million soldiers and 12 million civilians. World War I remains pivotal to understanding the twentieth century.
In short, the age of European supremacy died on the battlefields of northern France Of the world industrialized and modernized. And while European nations concentrated on slaughtering each other, the rest The world’s largest creditor in 1914, Europe emerged Which the Bolshevik dictatorship of the Soviet Union would emerge. Russia engaged in a vicious civil war, from Britain returned its attention to the Empire. A power vacuum was created in Central Europe, one which France could not and German, Ottoman and Russian empires collapsed. To a protracted struggle more than 300 years earlier, apply equally to the so-called ‘Great War’ of 1914–18.įor, World War I radically altered the European state system as well as European economies and societies.
These eloquent words, penned on the eve of World War II with regard To email * Your name * Your email * Comment Please tick the box below * Russia engaged in a vicious civil war, from which the Bolshevik dictatorship of the Soviet Union would. A power vacuum was created in Central Europe, one which France could not and the United States would not fill. The Austro-Hungarian, German, Ottoman and Russian empires collapsed. For, World War I radically altered the European state system as well as European economies and societies. These eloquent words, penned on the eve of World War II with regard to a protracted struggle more than 300 years earlier, apply equally to the so-called ‘Great War’ of 1914–18. devious in its course, futile in its result, it is the outstanding example in European history of meaningless conflict. Morally subversive, economically destructive, socially degrading. Its effects, both immediate and indirect, were either negative or disastrous. WEDGWOOD, The Thirty Years’ WarThe war solved no problems.
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