Who really won/lost WWI?
By Justin Luna
Thesis Statement
I believe that America won WWI and Germany lost because of hyper inflation and military restrictions. America won because they had a strong influence to a lot of European powers. I will also show you How WWI started.
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WWI started with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914
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Austria declared on Serbia with Germany backing them up...
These are the Eruopean alliances before this turned into WWI
- The United States benefited the most from WWI.
- almost every allied nation in Europe has heavily indebted to the U.S.
This is a graph of how much money the U.S. gave to powers in Europe
- After WWI Germany had the biggest economically loss because...
A man using money as wallpaper...
- Germany's army could only be 100,000.
- Germany lost land to France and Belgium.
- Germany had to pay over 33 billion (U.S.).
What it was like for Germany to see the treaty
- The Treaty of Versailles was meant to cripple Germany.
- Germany could not defend itself if they needed to.
- The middle class had little to no money.
The newspaper in the U.S. the day of the signing.