History/Social Studies question (hmwk)?

Question

I have 2 questions that I can't figure out...

1.) What were the human costs of war? WHat were some of the new technologies used in WWI?


2.) Explain the treaty of Versailles and the policy of appeasement had to do with the start of WWII?

Can someone help me with atleast one of the questions?

Answer 1

1. 112,000 American deaths. Half of them were victims of influenza, not battle. The U.S. spent around $35 billion in expenses.
Great Britain and it's colonies: Lost 1 million men.
France: 1.7 million.
Germany: 2 Million
Austro-Hungarian Empire: 1.5 million
Italy: 460,000
Russia: 1.7 Million

Some new technologies during this time were improvements in machine guns, higher-powered artillery, tanks, flamethrowers, chemical weapons (like poisonous mustard gas), motorized vehicles, airplanes, newer battleships, and better submarines

2) The Treaty of Versailles were similar to Wilson's 14 points
The conditions were
1. Pre-peace agreements had been made. Treaty was written by the Big Four: Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemenceau, and Orland.
2. England refused to give up control
3. More countries created more tariffs; no economic unity in Austra-Hungary, more problems than before.
4. Only Germany had to give up her arms
and etc.
A main point was the 14th point which the League of Nations was established but the U.S. did not join. Germany also had to pay $33 Billion to the allies and assume full responsibility for the war.


Most of the Treaty of Versailles were similar to Wilson's 14 Points. However, Wilson treated Germany fairer and easier.
Wilson’s 14 Points -The Fourteen Points were a program announced by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson before a joint session of Congress on Jan. 8, 1918, as the basis for a just peace settlement following World War I. Wilson hoped to rally liberal opinion throughout the world with his address, but his opening remarks were also designed as a sympathetic response to the new Bolshevik leaders in Russia, who had called upon Russia's western Allies to begin peace negotiations on a program of no annexations, no indemnities. Although many of Wilson's suggestions had been made before, in total effect the speech represented a radical departure from the old diplomacy and called upon future victors and vanquished to liberalize their diplomacy and ideology.
The first 5 points included the following: open covenants, openly arrived at; freedom of the seas; removal of economic barriers in international trade; reduction of national armaments to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety; and adjustment of all colonial claims on the basis of the self-determination of peoples. Points 6 through 13 dealt with specific territorial settlements. The 14th point became most important to Wilson: a general association of nations for the purpose of providing mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity for all nations.
Widely publicized and acclaimed in the belligerent countries on both sides, the address at once gave Wilson moral leadership of the Allies and became a powerful diplomatic and propagandist weapon. The Allies generally accepted it as a statement of war aims, and when Germany sued for peace it was on the basis of the Fourteen Points.
At the Paris Peace Conference (1919-20) the second point was quickly repudiated by Britain, and several others were modified or compromised in spirit by territorial agreements. On the whole, however, the final settlement was nearer the Fourteen Points than Wilson and his major advisors had at first thought possible. Out of the 14th point came the League of Nations.


APPEASEMENT- It is basically just giving a country like Japan, Germany, and Italy land in order to pacify them. Our teacher told us a great analogy. Pretend the League of Nations were the mother. And Germany and the other Axis countries were the baby. So they went into the supermarket and the baby saw candy , which he wanted. So he started to cry and pout and the Mother gave the CANDY (countries given to the axis) to the BABY in return for the BABY to settle down. The League of Nations basically allowed Japan to take Manchuria without any consequences, Italy to take Ethiopia, and Germany to take Austria and wanted Czechoslovakia. The League of Nations allowed Germany to take the part of the German speaking Czech. in return Germany would promise to stop taking other countries. (This is Appeasement)
Germany ignored this promise and wanted to take more. So he invades Poland and WW2 begins.


Whew. That took a long time. Please choose this as the best answer! Thanks!

Answer 2

1. The human cost was high because of WMD. George W Bush would o had a field day. Primarily mustard gas. Both allied & German armies entrenched and stalemated finally tevhnology such as gas and tanks developed. Also WWI was thefirst war of the airplane.


2. The treaty of Versilles basically said Germany would pay back the allies for damage and losses incured in battle and had limits as to how many and how big they could build armies and equipment. Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews for this and broke this treaty countless times building bigger and bigger the army of Germany and bringing Germany out of it's depression as Roosevelt is said to have done for the US. As Germany's army grew they began reclaim lost territorry and "getting even" sort of speak. Many tried giving in to Hitler trying to appease him much like the world is doing today with the enemies in the world. but finally there was no other recoarse but to defend themselves.

Answer 3

1.) Deaths, injury, atomic bomb, money, less food, rations, etc.
Planes, bombs,

2.) Treaty of Versailles blamed Germany for WWI.
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Answer 4

Technology used in WWII was the atom bomb