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What were the effects of World War I on Europe and/or the USA? Please describe t
What were the effects of World War I on Europe and/or the USA? Please describe three effects and their impact. Please also limit your answer to pre-1941 (or before WWII).
Evidence: Please use at least four library sources (one primary and three secondary) are required to complete this assignment and you may feel like you need more to properly answer the question. Library sources must be digital databases like JSTOR or New York Times Historical.
Effects on USA:
As a result of WWI, US becomes a global military and industrial leader.
Progressive Reforms change the lifestyle of many Americans including African Americans and women who helped win the war.
500,000 African Americans moved into northern states – “The Great Migration” seeking to capitalize on the freedoms promised when they fought in WWI.
Race riots occur in most major northern cities.
19th Amendment passed on June 4th, 1919 recognizing the role woman played in winning the war.
WWI sees the spread of socialism and communism as an antiwar reaction. A ‘Red Scare’ hits the nation as union membership increases.
Benefiting from wartime spending, The Roaring Twenties introduce the US to consumerism and materialism and large scale use of electricity.
Inflation rises after WWI and debt increases leading to 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression.
The US stays out of the League of Nations designed to prevent another World War.
US corporations, and military, begin having a major influence in Latin America.
Trying to capitalize on the equality of African American serving in WWI, an artistic African American movement, known as the “Harlem Renaissance”, took place in NYC
Effects on Europe:
In Europe, the war manifests in new destructive means including trench warfare and total war. PTSD (shell shock) is wide spread. A generation of men is lost – physically and mentally.
Immediately after WWI women’s suffrage spreads across Europe, recognizing the role of women during the war, with the key exception of France (1945).
Sex Disqualification Act of 1919 (Britain) enabled women to go to university, become professionals (doctors), and enter the civil service. By 1930, one third of British women worked outside the home; also seen as a result of the role of women during the war.
Destruction and loss in Europe lead to a reconceptualization of liberal democracy which gets blamed for the war. Alternatives like socialism/communism and fascism are promoted instead.
The Treaty of Versailles, which ends WWI, severally impacts Germany leading to hyperinflation and the rise of the Nazi Party (fascists).
In the aftermath of war new ideologies including Fascism and Communism come to denominate in the 1920s and 30s.
WWI leads to the Russian Revolution which creates the first Socialist county. Socialism/Communism spreads globally as a result leading to “red scares”.
The Treaty of Versailles brings peace to Europe but is flawed. The treaty that ended WWI might foretell another World War (WWII begins on Sept 1st 1939).
Italy and Germany embrace fascism as a reaction to spreading communism and the Treaty of Versailles
Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia are created in the aftermath of WWI. Germany especially, is impacted.
Immediately after the war, Europe experiences massive inflation and then also the Great Depression.
Minority groups in Europe, including Jews and Armenians, are scapegoated for the failure of WWI and the economy.
The Ottoman Empire conducts the Armenian Genocide during WWI to distract its population from the fact it was losing WWI. The genocide also took place during WWI because the world was distracted and thus no outside intervention.
The art movement known as Dadaism and later Surrealism, reflects the tensions/confusion of the age.r Ukriani
Holodomor or Ukrainian Famine or Ukrainian Genocide
Ukrainian Independence (post-WWI)
Global Effects:
Countries all over world participated in WWI sending either troops (1 million Africans, Vietnamese, Indians), as laborers (China), or financially involved (Brazil).
Soldiers, especially from African and South East Asian countries fought in the war as result of European colonialism.
Nationalist and independence movements rose during or immediately after the war as Europe’s power declined due to the war.
A sampling of nationalist movements include: Irish Republican Army, Indian National Congress, Pan-African Congress, Zionism, and the Kuomintang of China.
Immediately after WWI colonial revolts began in the Middle East and South East Asia.
A new state was invented, Iraq, created by the British for its oil resources.
Inspired by the Russian Revolution, socialism linked Pan-Africanists from America, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean through the writings of George Padmore and W.E.B. Dubois.
Similarly, after supplying the most laborers of any non-European country to the war effort in Europe but then rejected at the Paris Peace conference, China increasingly embraced socialism as a rejection of western ideals.
In Central and South America one imperialist (Europe) was replaced with another: America. As Europe receded during and after WWI, American corporations such as the United Fruit Company moved in. American military intervention followed.
As boom and bust economies emerged, Latin Americans increasing turned to their military (military dictators) as a source of stability.
Japan increased its empire because of the war and sought to become the major power in East Asia.
Because soldiers from around the world interacted in Europe during the war, The Great Influenza (pandemic) spread globally and killed 25 million.
The Balfour Declaration and the creation of mandates in the former territories of the Ottoman Empire.
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