United States Never Entered World War One...

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The appalling death count could at least be justified in victory by the Allies but if there is no victory and nothing gain but death, how do these government justify such death. A whole generation in England was gone by the end of the war. I suspect the same for France and Germany.
with no americans involed you should use an early 1917 map
 

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I found these 40 maps of World War one covering the many fronts of the war...


Like GDP...

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Reparations and the rise of Hitler...

The war devastated economies across continental Europe. Not only did each country rack up significant amounts of war debt, they almost all suffered massive losses in gross domestic product over the course of the conflict. France and Russia had each lost a third of their prewar output by the time they left the conflict. The economic pain and massive debt load prompted the Allies to demand huge punitive damages from from the losing side after the war. The burden of debt and reparation payments hobbled the Weimar Republic that governed Germany from the end of the war until Adolf Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s. Germany stopped paying reparations in 1931, having paid only a small fraction of the sum the allies had demanded. The Allies also demanded that Austria, Hungary, and Turkey pay reparations, but their economies were so devastated by the war that they never made significant payments.

And this map...

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Hungry people wanted peace hunger beat the Germans...

Germany was blessed with excellent military leadership that allowed the nation to hold its own against numerically superior foe. But it had a problem that couldn't be overcome with military tactics alone. Britain and France could draw on the resources of their vast overseas empires, and trade with neutral countries, to get the resources they needed to win the war. Thanks to the British blockade, the Central Powers were cut off from the rest of the world. So conditions in Germany, for soldiers and civilians alike, steadily deteriorated. This map, based on a map from a book published by the United States government in July 1918, shows the food situation in Europe as the war was drawing to a close. While the US government might have been tempted to exaggerate Germany's hardship, this map is basically accurate. By 1918, the Central Powers were facing severe food shortages, and things could have gotten a lot worse if the war had dragged into the winter of 1919. An increasingly desperate German citizenry began pressuring the German government for peace.

There are 38 more maps this about about WWone at the link...
 

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The appalling death count could at least be justified in victory by the Allies but if there is no victory and nothing gain but death, how do these government justify such death. A whole generation in England was gone by the end of the war. I suspect the same for France and Germany.



meanie...
AKA the 'Lost Generation'
 

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