World War I is known as the war to end all wars. It is estimated that 8.5 million soldiers died during World War I. What was the impact of these deaths on the populations of the nations involved?

Write about your ideas in your notes.

Some ideas you may have thought of:

• Think about all of the developments that could have been made by the soldiers who lost their lives in World War I.
• Many nations were set back industrially, both due to the damages their cities sustained but also to the loss of life.
• Socially, the majority of the deaths were men between the ages of 20 and 45. Birthrates went down as a result of the loss of life.
• Artists lost their lives; artwork, architecture, and literature was destroyed, and the literature that came after the war often had a somber tone to it.