Question

The first war causes lot of destruction and loss in men and money but its raised a new ray of hope for counties under Imperial domination
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Answer 1

World War 1 killed 9 million combatants and 5 million civilians and cost $186 billion in direct costs and another $151 billion in indirect costs than any previous war in history.

Answer 2

The cause of First World War was imperial competition. First and foremost, colonial rivalry led to problems in European relations. All the European powers in Africa had colonies except Austria and Russia. Third, the intensification of the arms race led to colonial rivalries.

Explanation:

• In the First World War, the French and British imperial empires mobilized themselves to help the European and imperial warfare.
• This move and demobilization difficulties put great strain on imperial systems, which only in part was addressed by the post-war reforms.
• The war gave the imperial powers a serious blow and deprived them of their previous reputation.
• For several factors, the large imperial powers disappeared. By fighting each other (and for land-based empires too), the imperial powers weakened each other. The colonized people started to mobilise for independence, mostly with the aid of existing ideas in the colonial land