HIST 388 Lecture 2: Versailles, Revolution, and the ‘-isms’
4 Nov 2016
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__________________________________________________________________________ armistice is agreed on - not a peace treaty. The surface of europe looked cratered, like the surface of a golfball. A flood of people began to relocate at the same time. Millions of soldiers were returning home, either from pow camps, forced labor camps, or as refugees. At this time, millions of people were transversing europe. In the winter 1918-1919 , there was famine, starvation. People ate things like coal, wood shavings, and sand. Because there hadn"t been a real peace treaty yet, the navy was still blockading germany. No food or medical supplies were allowed in by sea. there was little or no money to pay for reconstruction or food. Almost every country in europe owed massive sums to others (especially britain to the us). There was a growing feeling of a lost generation . The war was so devastating and so many people died, it seemed like an entire generated was wiped away.
