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World War One

World War One . The Terrible Slaughter that Changed the World – Will Hutton. Europe before 1914. No women voted Empires flourished Class distinctions were very important Servant class. Europe before 1914. Women, foreigners, blacks seen as inferior

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World War One

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  1. World War One The Terrible Slaughter that Changed the World – Will Hutton

  2. Europe before 1914 • No women voted • Empires flourished • Class distinctions were very important • Servant class

  3. Europe before 1914 • Women, foreigners, blacks seen as inferior • Organized religion still powerful, especially among poor • Industrialization had brought some examples of extreme wealth but poor working conditions

  4. Europe/USA before 1914 • Life expectancy in cities half that in the shires • However, labor was still very disorganized • Workers still tended to vote for traditional parties through deference rather than nascent working class parties (e.g. Labour Party in GB) • In America, Democrats incorporated organized labor – no new party emerging • Huge amount of emigration to America

  5. Harbingers of Change • Kaiser in Germany losing some power to parliament • Austria-Hungarian and Russian autocrats under increasing pressure to democratize • Strikes more common • Suffragette movement fighting for women to get the vote • Old age pension in GB • Freud

  6. Consequences of the War • End of Austria-Hungarian, Russian, Turkish and German empires • Emergence of smaller, self-governing states • Power with people rather than crowns and churches

  7. Consequences of War - Secularism • Communism • Soviet Union • 9 million dead • Where was God?

  8. Consequences of War – Working Class Solidarity • Why didn’t the soldiers mutiny? • Loyalty to each other • Led to rise of trade unionism • Start of support for w/c parties – why vote for the people that led you into the war?

  9. Consequences of War • Newspaper reading up • Women at work • Women and the vote • Fairer taxation • End of servant class

  10. Consequences of War • Fascism – counter-reaction to the progressivism of previous slide (Italy/Spain/Germany) as well as TOV • End of mass emigration to USA – US becomes insular and isolationist

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