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The Impact of the Great War

The Impact of the Great War. Military Physical Personal Psychological Individuals European society Political. Military. All of those new technologies help usher in the age of total war

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The Impact of the Great War

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  1. The Impact of the Great War • Military • Physical • Personal • Psychological • Individuals • European society • Political

  2. Military • All of those new technologies help usher in the age of total war • There is also a connection between the “modern” feeling that there are no more rules and that all morality is relative and the ability to wage war against any and all…even civilians.

  3. Physical • The actual ground • Flanders • Northern France • Infrastructure as well

  4. Personal • Incredible casualties!

  5. CountryDeadWoundedMissingTotal Africa10,000--10,000 Australia58,150152,170-210,320 Austria-Hungary922,0003,600,000855,2835,377,283 Belgium44,000450,000-494,000 Britain658,7002,032,150359,1503,050,000 Bulgaria87,500152,39027,029266,919 Canada56,500149,700-206,200 Caribbean1,0003,000-4,000 France1,359,0004,200,000361,6505,920,650 Germany1,600,0004,065,000103,0005,768,000 Greece5,00021,0001,00027,000 India43,20065,1755,875114,250 Italy689,000959,100-1,424,660 Japan30090731,210 Montenegro3,00010,0007,00020,000 New Zealand16,13040,750-56,880 Portugal7,22213,75112,31833,291 Romania335,706120,00080,000535,706 Russia1,700,0005,000,000-6,700,000 Serbia45,000133,148152,958331,106 South Africa7,00012,000-19,000 Turkey250,000400,000-650,000 USA58,480189,95514,290262,7255

  6. A literally LOST generation • The impact is even greater because of things like Pals Units. • Then, in 1918, influenza (the Spanish flu) and an additional 25 million die

  7. Psychological • The first experience with “shell shock” now know as PTSD • This also comes from the WAY in which the war was fought. • Also, lots of cynicism because of the gap between soldiers and leadership (military and political)

  8. European Society Take all of those “modern” ideas from pre-war days • Man is not the crown of God’s creation (Darwin) • There are no absolute rules, even time and space (Einstein) “They cheer me because they all understand me, and they cheer you because no one understands you.” • People are not in control of their own minds (Freud)

  9. And add • Horrors of war • Proof that there are no rules, no absolutes ie Heisenberg • Morality does seem relative • And you get • The Age of Anxiety • Anxiety of meaningless • What is the meaning of life?

  10. The Lost Generation

  11. Dadaism • Dada does not mean anything

  12. Dada Poetry The airplane weaves telegraph wires
 and the fountain sings the same song
 At the rendezvous of the coachman the apertif is orange but the locomotive mechanics have blue eyes
 the lady has lost her smile in the woods

  13. Surrealism • The belief that rational thought represses creativity. You must get in touch with the hidden mind.

  14. Salvador Dali

  15. Rene Magritte

  16. Time Transfixed

  17. Literature - Stream of consciousness • Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway (The Hours) • James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • DH Lawrence…Lady Chatterley’s Lover

  18. Political • Lack of faith in governments, especially in Germany • What will the peace look like?

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