HOW THE WORLD CHANGED:
Using our E-S-P Tool
 FACT: EACH WAR IN HUMAN HISTORY WAS
DIFFERENT THAN THE WAR THAT WAS
FOUGHT DIRECTLY BEFORE IT.
 BUT . . .
 WORLD WAR I WAS DIFFERENT THAN ALL
WARS EVER FOUGHT, WHICH IS WHY IT
WAS CALLED:
 “THE WAR TO END ALL WARS “
 COST OF WWI WAS OVER $350 BILLION—A
HUGE AMOUNT FOR THE TIME
 HUGE COST LEADS TO HEAVY TAXATION
AND LOWER STANDARD OF LIVING
 HIGH TARIFFS = INTERNATIONAL TRADE
SUFFERS
 DESTROYS TOWNS, FARMLAND, FACTORIES,
HOMES
 HELPS TO BRING ON 1929 DEPRESSION
 ~ 10 MILLION SOLDIERS DEAD, 20 MILLION
WOUNDED
 MILLIONS OF CIVILIANS KILLED OR
CRIPPLED DUE TO WAR, FAMINE, DISEASE
 YOUTH (NEXT GENERATION) LOST—OLD
STAY IN POWER WITH SAME IDEAS
 SENSE OF HOPELESSNESS, ANGER & DISPAIR
PERVADES EUROPE
 REVIVAL OF CHRISTIANITY AS PEOPLE LOSE
FAITH IN SCIENCE AND REASON
 IT WAS A “TOTAL WAR”:
 GOVERNMENTS HAD TO PLAN AND THEREFORE
CONTROL, ALL PARTS OF A COUNTRY’S “LIFE”—SET
A PRECEDENCE FOR FUTURE GENERATION’S
FREEDOMS DURING WAR
 GIVES WORLD THE 1ST COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT
IN RUSSIA
 AMERICA EMERGED AS A LEADING WORLD POWER
(BUT US SENATE REJECTION OF TREATY LEADS TO
ISOLATIONISM)
 LEAGUE OF NATIONS STARTED TO SOLVE
INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS AND WORK FOR
WORLD PEACE
 CREATED NEW NATIONAL STATES IN
EUROPE (EX: POLAND, CZECHOSLOVAKIA)
 COLONIES WHO SUPPORTED “MOTHER
COUNTRIES” WANTED MORE FREEDOM &
INDEPENDENCE)
 3 MAJOR EUROPEAN “HOUSES” OUT OF
POWER: HAPSBURGS, HOHENZOLLERNS,
ROMANOVS
 “BAD TIMES” AFTER WWI ENDS BRINGS
DICTATORS TO POWER WHO PROMISE
“GOOD TIMES”
 THE PEACE TREATY (OF VERSAILLES) WAS
SO FLAWED IT LED TO WWWII
 TWO BIG ISSUES:
 GERMANY HAD TO PAY HUGE
REPARATIONS
 GERMANY HAD TO ADMIT IT HAD
STARTED THE WAR