HIS242H1 Lecture 5: 5. The Aftermath of WWI
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The aftermath of the war aided the spread of ideology (especially communism in russia) 1918-22: malnourishment caused the spread of spanish influenza = 50 million deaths. Mutilations: 21 million wounded, including invisible wounds (shell shock) American involvement in vietnam, iraq, deeply affected public in us: undermined fabric of political establishment of the country. Problem: after demobilization, there were 5-10 million men wanting to go back into the labour market (no jobs available) - pressure on labour market: hard to move from a military economy to selling consumer goods. Result: many veterans involved in political activism (both extreme left and right) Effects of the war: germany: kiel mutiny leading to german revolution, hungary: formation of a republic that went into a revolution. Italy: march on fiume: russia: russian civil war - reds win. Revolution was not caused by the existing political climate, but by the fact that the german high.