HIS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vladimir Lenin, Zimmermann Telegram, Erich Ludendorff
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Every resource of the industrialized state was being used in the war, thus making one of the most important things labour. After the war in france, the numbers of women working goes back down to pre 1914 levels: many women became "war-widows" who found themselves thrown into an unfamiliar role, head of the family. Taking the men away from families created many demographical impacts, such as a rapid decline in birthrate during the main years of conflict. Germany and france, but the vast majority of european countries. The population is "war-weary", for they are tired of seeing the men that they knew dying. In france the situation becomes so bad that the army starts to commit a mutiny, revolting against their leaders. Roughly 2/3 of the french military committed mutiny to some degree (discontent about the situation at home, leadership and the belief that the generals were doing wrong by the french people).
