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Robert Smit's List: A - What is the background to the treaty of Versailles

    • World War One had left Europe devastated. Those countries that had fought in it, had suffered casualties never experienced before:

        

      Britain :  750,000 soldiers killed; 1,500,000 wounded
       
      France : 1,400,000 soldiers killed; 2,500,000 wounded
       
      Belgium : 50,000 soldiers killed
       
      Italy : 600,000 soldiers killed
       
      Russia : 1,700,000 soldiers killed
       
      America : 116,000 soldiers killed

    • Those who had fought against the Allies suffered heavy casualties as well:

        

      Germany : 2,000,000 soldiers killed
       
      Austria-Hungary : 1,200,000 soldiers killed
       
      Turkey : 325,000 soldiers killed
       
      Bulgaria : 100,000 soldiers killed

       

      The total deaths of all nations who fought in the war is thought to have been 8.5 million with 21 million being wounded. 

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