Its been one hundred years since the end of the 'War to End
All Wars' and the outcome of this great conflict is still very relevant today,
While the war ended the Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, Russian and German Empires
it was also responsible for the rise of Fascism, Marxist-Leninism and Islamism.
Vladimir Putin is an extension of the KGB apparatus that originated with
Lenin's Cheka (during WWI) and ISIS - gains its intellectual capital (if you
can call it such a thing) from the Wahhabism that challenged Turkish
superiority in the Arabian Peninsula. As well American Interventionism, which
has critics on both the left and the right, can take as its champion Woodrow
Wilson, who rejected the isolation of old to thrust America into the global
theater as never before. One would not be mistaken to conclude that the genesis
of the US as a superpower has its origin in WWI not necessarily in a military
capacity (where it swung the war against the Central Pact in 1918) but in its
ability to finance the allied war machine. The American economic power house
grew to adulthood in the Great War.
Total number of deaths is estimated to be 11 million
military personal and 7 million civilians. Numbers do not include the
Great Influenza epidemic that followed the war and infected 500 million people
(killing between 50 and 100 million).
I will use rounded numbers for approximate Death estimates for each principal fighting powers. Death numbers do not include wounded.
Australia - 62,000, Canada - 67,000,
India - 74,000, New Zealand - 18,000, Newfoundland - 1,600, South Africa -
10,000, UK and Colonies - 1,012,000, Belgium
- 145,000, France - 1,738,000, Greece - 176,000, Romania - 666,000, Italy 1,243,000,
Russia 3,395,000, United States 118,000, Austria-Hungary - 2,081,000, Bulgaria
- 188,000, German Empire - 2,801,000, Ottoman Empire - 3,272,000
Biggest Source of Civilian Deaths = 1,500,000 Armenians
Source: World War One Casualties
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