HIST 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 1150
• Professor: Alan Mc Dougall

Document Summary

Stats and figures on wwi: more than 9 million dead (c. 1 in 8 of the 65million who fought, average about 6046 men killed on every day of the war, collapse of german, habsburg, ottoman and russian empires. Creation of new nation states in e/c europe czechoslovakia, poland, yugoslavia, Finland, lithuania, latvia, estonia, hungary and austria: world"s first communist revolution (bolshevik seizure of power in russia, Nov 1917. : massive economic dislocation, unemployment, huge state debts and skyrocketing inflation. Emergence of the usa (the war"s only major creditor) as the pre-eminent global economic power: massive social dislocation: c. 9. 5 million refugees in europe by 1926.