World War I - Political Consequences

Introduction

The root cause of the First World War was the assassination of the heir to the Habsburg throne, Franz Ferdinand, which took place in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 by a student of Serbia. The remote causes of the war are different (Taylor, pp. 123). First, when conflict began in Bismarck, the then German Chancellor was allied with Russia, Austria and Italy against France.

Another cause was the Anglo-German conflict problems created when Germany began a more aggressive foreign policy designed to disrupt the hegemony of English and based on creating a powerful new navy aimed at conquering new colonies (Fussell and Paul, pp. 57).

Discussion

Political Consequences of World War I

The four empires that existed before the end of the war (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Turkey and Russia) disappeared with their ruling houses, resulting in republics. The Bolshevik Revolution, which occurred during the war, a milestone in the history of humanity as the first resulting in the birth of a communist state, which play a role in the history of the twentieth century (Naimark, pp. 29).

The end of the war changed the map of Europe and colonial. The old Austro-Hungarian, Turkish and Russia suffered heavy territorial losses, from which emerged new states: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Germany lost Alsace and Lorraine, who became French hands, and all of its overseas territories. It meant the end of the hegemony of the old world. Great empires disappeared as the Second Reich, the Austro-Hungarian, Russian, etc. Two new powers emerged after the war: the United States and the new Soviet state. The war disrupted everything. It was developed in the front lines and in the rear. Countries experienced a major change. For example, as a result of the war shows the transformation of the countryside, industrialization, and, within the variations that occur in society, the incorporation of women to an active (factory work). By keeping in view all the above facts, we will analyze the geo-political consequences of WWI in the coming lines.

Italy

The war cost a lot to Italy: the huge costs incurred by the state to fund the war formed a debt settled only in the late seventies. The acquisition of the Trentino-Alto Adige, in Trieste, of ' Istria, but not of Dalmatia, territories for a total of only three quarters ethnically Italian (the majority being non-Italian to the Austrian census of 1910 - 1911, according to what a majority Italian of 1921), was paid a heavy price (Atlas, pp. 806). The deep disappointment at the failure to respect the Pact of London and the deep economic and political crisis that developed after the war, in fact, led to severe social tensions that will result in the first two years, redand then in Fascism.

France

For France, the war seemed to mark the end of the ideally Prussian dominance in the area, which had lasted since the British and Prussians defeated Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814, and especially after the French defeat of 1870 in the Franco-Prussian War (Cockfield and Jamie, ...