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• Nearly 90,000 Indian soldiers were killed in the war
• India Gate in new Delhi was constructed in memory
of those Indian soldiers who were killed in the World
War I
• germany and Austria are usually regarded as the
main culprits for the outbreak of First World War
• Victory gardens is related with First World War and
the idea was put forth by Herbert Hoover
• Hoover was the US Food Administrator and he had to
provide food to the US Army. He encouraged people
to plant Victory Gardens to meet the shortage of food
• The youngest British soldier (Sidney Lewis) in the
First World War was just 12 years old
Q & A Rare Plus
• The famous author who participated in the
First World War – ernest Hemingway
• He worked as an ambulance driver
Treaty & League of Nations
• The treaty which officially ended the First World War
was Versailles Treaty
• Versailles Treaty was signed on June 28, 1919 at
the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles Palace
• The outline of the Versailles Treaty was prepared at
the Paris Peace Conference 1919
• The Chief architects of Versailles Treaty – Woodrow
Wilson (President, USA), Georges Clemenceau
(Prime Minister, France) , David Lloyd George (Prime
Minister, Britain) and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
(Prime Minister, Italy)
• They were known as ‘Big four’
• The treaty established the League of Nations to
prevent future wars
• The American President behind the establishment of
League of Nations – Woodrow Wilson
• But the US Senate refused to let the United States to
join the League of Nations
• Germany joined the League of Nations in 1926
• Germany and Japan withdrew from the League of
Nations in 1933
• Italy withdrew from League of Nations in 1936
• The League of Nations was unable to stop German,
Italian and Japanese from expanding their power and
taking over smaller countries
Versailles Treaty – conditions:
• Germany to accept full responsibility for causing the
war, among other conditions
• To surrender some of its territory to surrounding
countries
• To surrender its African colonies
• To limit the size of its military
Q & A Theatre
Famous Movies based on First World War:
$ Wings (1927)
$ The Somme (1927)
$ Hell’s Angels (1930)
$ West Friend (1931)
@Brain Mapping
$ A Farewell to Arms (1932)
$ Paths of Glory (1957)
$ Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
War effects
• In Russia, the autocracy of Tsar emperors was
dismantled by the revolutionaries in 1917 with the
help of Bolsheviks and it led to the rise of Soviet
Union
• When the Revolution broke out, Caesar Nicholas
was the ruler of Russia
• After the 1917 revolution, Alexander Kerensky took
charge but he was overthrown by the Lenin led
Bolsheviks in the October Revolution
• Russia withdrew from the First World War in 1918
after signing a treaty with Germany as Lenin was
not interested to continue the war
• Kaiser Wilhelm II escaped to Netherlands
• Austria–Hungary were divided into four countries –
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January 2018