Transcript Social, Economic and Political effects of WWI

Social, Economic and Political
effects of WWI
Social
Historical Definition:
The way people lead their lives
Social
1. The Role of Women
• worked in
factories
• given the right to
vote in most
democracies
Social
1. The Role of Women
• Social and political
power of women
evident with
WOMEN`S
CHRISTIAN
TEMPERANCE
UNION
• convinced legislators
to ban sale and
consumption of
alcohol
Social
1. Role of Women
• Ladies fashion more
daring
• Larger role in
everyday life
Social
2. Mass production and
urbanization
• Industrial cities – New
York, London, Paris
huge boom
• automobile came with
urbanization
Social
2. Mass production and
Urbanisation
With the help of the
automobile, suburbs
were created
Mass production of
autos also helped to
spawn the petroleum
industry
Social
3. Disillusionment and Cynicism
1919 Poem, The Second Coming (Yeats)
Indicates the sense of being lost:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and
everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Economic
• War was more expensive than imagined
• Great Britain once a creditor nation became a debtor
nation – everyone owed money to USA (war debts)
• New York replaced London as world's financial capital
Political
• International political
system lay in ruins
• Alliance system,
armed might, and
balance of power
could not prevent the
war