To put that into comparison here some World War I casualty figures as a percentage of prewar population from other countries (source:Wikipedia– note ranges given when sources do not agree): Serbia:16.67%-27.78% (750,000-1,250,000 people) ...
Tension between Serbia and Austria-Hungary was at its peak due to Serbia's victory in the Balkan Wars just a few years prior, doubling its territory and population. Austria-Hungary viewed Serbia as a threat for many years leading up to this assassination. The weeks following the ass...
Population in 1939 131,028,000 Military Deaths in WW2 407,318 Civilian Deaths in WW2 11,200 Contributor: C. Peter Chen During WW1, the Japanese military seized German colonies in China and in the Pacific, and after the war the western powers allowed Japan to keep the territories, thus rec...
Entry into WW2 10 May 1940 Population in 1939 8,729,000 Military Deaths in WW2 7,900 Civilian Deaths in WW2 198,000 - Civ Deaths from Holocaust 106,000 Contributor: C. Peter Chen During WW1, the Netherlands maintained a neutral status. In 1936, when Germany began a rearmament policy, ...
The biggest measure inflicted on the American population was censorship. The formation of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) and the passing of the Espionage Act and Sedition Amendment stole American’s freedom of speech, created an anti-German sentiment, and led to deportation during the ...
During World War II, more than 16 million American men served in the military. While this large portion of the population was overseas fighting for the United States, women had to do many of the jobs in America normally held by men. Women were considered vital assets to the war effort, ...
Testament of Youth has been acclaimed as a classic for its description of the impact of World War I on the lives of women and the middle-class civilian population of Great Britain. The book shows how the impact extended into the postwar years. It is also considered a classic i...
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Both of these schools were international schools with an extremely varied student population, but both managed to ensure a strong learning of the host country. At the International School of Geneva, we have introduced a Global Citizenship course which runs across four different year levels. One of...
But the effect of the raid on a population who were used to battles being fought by soldiers on the battlefield was immense.Morale dropped and people feared further raids and believed that a German invasion would follow.Further raids were carried out on coastal towns and London during 1915 ...