World War 1 The Cost of War WW1
75The Poppies of Flanders Field
The Human Cost Of War
From the first gunshot fired in anger in 1914 until the 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month in 1918, The Great War took its toll on human life.
Of the 65 million men who fought in World War 1:
8 million men were killed in battle.
2 million died of illness and disease.
21.2 million were wounded.
7.8 million were taken prisoner or went missing in action.
6.6 million civilians were killed.
From every nation who took part in the combat there barely was a family who hadn't lost a relative in the war, a brother a son a father a nephew an uncle, some towns and villages lost all of their male members of fighting age.
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The Financial Cost of War
The war took its toll on the whole of the European Economy, financially Europe was on it's knees.
Many industries that were thriving in peace time were retooled for war production . When the war was over Governments didn't help them retool back to what they used to produce , therefore many went broke.
Also because of the high death and wounded toll many villages were robbed of skilled tradesman such as printers, smiths , carpenters, skills that took a long time to learn and rebuilding required many of these people .This ruined the infrastructure and business practices of the local villages and crippled many rural areas.
During the war the estimated costs for each combatant nation are listed below
in US DOLLARS
United States : 22,625,253,000
Great Britain : 35,334,012,000
France : 24,265,583,000
Russia : 22,293,950,000
Italy : 12,413,998,000
Belgium : 1,154,468,000
Romania : 1,600,000,000
Japan : 40,000,000
Serbia : 399,400,000
Greece : 270,000,000
Canada : 1,665,576,000
Australia : 1,423,208,000
New Zealand : 378,750,000
India : 601,279,000
South Africa : 300,000,000
British Colonies : 125,000,000
Germany : 37,775,000,000
Austria-Hungary : 20,622,960,000
Turkey : 1,430,000,000
Bulgaria : 815,200,000
War Graves
The After Cost of War
The financial cost of war was ongiong for years after the cease fire had been signed, disabled soldiers had to be cared for, the rebuilding of homes and industries became priority and war memorials were built in every town village and city of soldiers who had perished in battle.
Graves had to be cared for and cemeteries had to be built for the soldiers who perished in The Great War, bodies of soldiers who died in the war were removed from their shallow graves at the trenches and taken to the newly created cemetries.
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The costs listed in your hub are just absolutely horrific. So many lifes have been lost for what? So that it can be done all-over again in a couple of decades.
great hub regards Zsuzsy
Ahhh "In Flanders Field the poppies grow,between the crosses row on row" That keeps going through my head as I read this hub. What a staggering cost in blood and treasure--and it was supposed to be the war to end all wars. Thanks for making us all remember that the more things change, the more they remain the same. Wonderful hub.
That was cost so much. And so many lives were lost and much land was destroyed. WWI didnt do much either, if it did, we wouldnt have WWII. ;)
Its very nice and great information about world war 1. So many people had lost there lifes in war.
wow talk bout alot of died ppl.. wow this was a very bad war!!!
The impact of the deaths resonated throughout the UK, I think. All those war memorials, all those dead boys.
perhaps it was out of shame when looking at the barbaric outcome of the carnage that the perpetrators of the Great European war popularized it as the "First World War" so that all can share in the guilt.
nice hub nice
wow how could such a thing happend to thes poor people
It is so horrific how many people died in the war and some dying just from the conditions of the trenches, i feel sorry for all those who lost people in the war and how the brave soliders had spent thier last days in these ghastly conditions :(
wow that war was pointless if it did any thing but kill all those ppl!!
I wonder if little George Bush studied World war I in school?
i went on a battle field tour a while back. we went to tyne-cot. its mind blowing. i mean there are thousands of graves there alone. and when you think what a small fraction of the total dead that is, well it just destroys you. and the worst thing is i cant think of one single reason why they died.
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Nice!
well apparantly george bush didnt study ww1 or ww2 in school because america is officially in the longest war ever to take place in history
Woody Marx Level 2 Commenter 4 years ago
When we look at statistics, they are just numbers. But if we remember that there is a real, live, human being behind that number, one who had a mother, and was once a baby and grew up in a family and so on...it really brings it home. War is evil, but when all is said a done, a necessary one perhaps. Such a mystery.
Thanks for your hub!