1. Costs of the War

2. Lives 8.5 Million soldiers lost their lives in WWI 21 Million were wounded

3. Mobilization

4. Losses by Country Averages per day:2,533 killed9,121 wounded 1 out of every 10 French citizens were killed or injured

5. Estimated Civilian Deaths 2.5 to 4.5 Million

6. Money Total Costs of WWI= $338 Billion Germany lost the most with $210 Million But the US gained the most $475 Million The general rule of thumb- If you were deeply involved you lost money, if not you gained $$$

7. Colonial Forces Fought for the French and the British with the hope that they would be granted independence. If Africans and Asians were “good enough to fight and die in the Empire’s cause, they were good enough to have a share in the government of their countries.”

8. Influenza Pandemic of 1918 Killer of 20 Million World Wide!!!

9. League of Nations Set to mediate (talk though) problems between nations What did Nations do before the League? Thought up by Woodrow Wilson Brought to life by the Treaty of Versailles But the US never joins because of political differences between the President and the US Congress.

10. Age of Uncertainty Before the war most people felt that western culture/society was developing in all the right ways (democracy, industrialization, diplomacy) and moving towards perfection. But the war destroyed all this… Why???

11. The Lost Generation Millions were severely wounded and could not work Millions were depressed over loss of loved ones Millions were haunted by the War Anger towards the institutions that promise glory and victory in the war –Nation-States (Government, Politicians) –Media (propaganda) –Church (god is on our side) –Business (arms manufacturers, shippers)

12. Artists Break from the old ways New ways to look at paintings, architecture, clothing, music and entertainment

13. The Menin Road, by Paul Nash

14. Expressionism Agony

15. Cubism

16. Who was Picasso? Read page 426 (regular book) to find out.

17. Guernica

18. Dada

19. Surrealism

20. Gertrude Stein Coined the phrase “Lost Generation” She was at the center of the arts world in Paris.

21. Writers Many American Artists move to Paris, France. –T.S. Elliot –Ernest Hemingway –F. Scott Fitzgerald They were joined by dark but creative Europeans: –Franz Kafka (Czech), the Metamorphous –James Joyce (Irish), Ulysses Most wrote about the emptiness of life

22. Rudyard Kipling (White man’s burden) lost his son in the War and wrote the on his tombstone: If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied.