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Some long-term effects included the economic debt Germany would have to pay off for many years to come as well as the U.S. and Japan rising to power. Fascism also arose due to the war, which was an ideology that fully opposed communism.
The Aftermath of World War I
With the conclusion of War World I came the consequences of any great war, thousands of casualties and a final Treaty. In this case 11,016,000 dead and the aftermath guidelines were set in the Treaty of Versailles. However this war differed from others in the sense that the total death count continued to get higher even after the war due to the pandemic of the "flu." The result; 20 million dead and the new existence of the flu across the entire world. Just a week after the end of the war (Nov. 11, 1918) President Wilson headed to Paris to see if a "final peace" could be reached through the "Paris Peace Conference."
The result was Wilson's "Fourteen Points" and the famous Treaty of Versailles. The fourteen points introduced a list of terms for resolving not only this war but also for wars to come. The Treaty of Versailles, written up by the Allies, had 26 clauses for establishing the League of Nations, whose goals were three fold, preventing war, settling disputes, and improving global welfare. The other 414 clauses were pure devastation for Germany. The more important clauses included Germany accepting full blame for starting the war, paying off 30 billion dollars in reparations, as well as restrictions on Germany's greatly feared Army and Navy. With no other choice but to sign, Germany was set into years of debt and economic turmoil.
The treaty left other countries in discontent as well such as Italy, who didn't receive all the land promised to them as well Japan, whose claims in China were unsettled. With forty nations entering the League hope for peace was achieved however the League proved powerless against preventing war but it did remain a step toward "international organization." Other immediate effects of the Great War included the Russian Revolution, the creations of new nations in Europe, and Balfour's Declaration, in which Britain supported a "home for the Jewish People" in Palestine in order to win the Jews favor.
Some long-term effects included the economic debt Germany would have to pay off for many years to come as well as the U.S. and Japan rising to power. Fascism also arose due to the war, which was an ideology that fully opposed communism. All forms of Fascism were rooted in extreme nationalism, antidemocratic, and all forms pursued foreign expansion. The single most devastating long-term effect of WWI was in fact WWII, which resulted in as many as 75 million more people dead around the entire world.
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