Triage for medical attention emerged from the trenches of WWI to become a fixture in battlefields and other disasters. Medical advances included screening for tuberculosis, treatment for tetanus, vaccines for typhoid, prevention of venereal disease and disinfection for surgery. “But WWI was a time when the best physicians and researchers were in the military, not in civilian life, caring for patients, so that led to great discoveries that made a huge difference for public health.”Ĭhudnofsky points out that disease awareness and prevention leaped forward during WWI, first to heal soldiers and later for civilians. The best physicians and researchers were in the military … so that led to great discoveries that made a huge difference for public health. “Prior to WWI, most of the medicine practiced around the world was fairly archaic,” said Carl Chudnofsky, chair and professor of clinical emergency medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Impact of World War I on medical careĪnother thing forever changed by the war: medicine. The Western powers, fatigued by war, yielded to isolationism and appeasement as the Third Reich emerged, triggering World War II and the Holocaust. The Middle East changed with the defeat of Turkey and Britain’s pledge for a Jewish state in Palestine. Russia quit the war as domestic unrest triggered the Bolshevik revolution, rise of Communism and the Cold War. “The war ended when people were able to articulate a vision of the future, an optimism about how things were going to be better with nations working together.” Cull, historian in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. “World War I is an amazingly important and underappreciated moment in history,” said Nicholas J. The Great War claimed 40 million lives - but also serves as an unexpected pivot point for modern civilization. One hundred years ago Sunday, the Allies and Germany agreed to an armistice ending World War I. (Photo/Geoffrey Malins via Wikimedia Commons) Your browser does not support the audio element.Soldiers fight in the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
Germany also had to give up the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine to France.Īs part of the Paris Peace Conference, an organization called the League of Nations was formed. Russia became the Soviet Union and the Ottoman Empire later became the country of Turkey. Several new independent countries were formed including Poland, Finland, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia.
The map of Europe changed significantly after World War I. Germany was forced to disarm, give up land to France, and to pay reparations of 132 billion Marks (around $442 billion in 2014 money). It forced Germany to "accept the responsibility for causing all the loss and damage" of the war. The treaty was extremely harsh on Germany. The Treaty of Versailles was signed between the Allied Powers and Germany on June 28, 1919. However, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau felt that Germany was responsible for the war and should take the blame and be forced to pay large reparations. He thought that Germany should not be blamed for the war or punished too harshly. President Woodrow Wilson felt that the best solution was to incorporate his Fourteen Points. Each of the four nations had different opinions on how Germany should be treated.
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