WW1 Armistice Exhibition - Europe

From Armistice to Lausanne - Europe

Eastern Europe was significantly re-drawn;
Establishment of German Austria, Hungarian Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and Romania.
Alsace-Lorraine returned to France.
In other territorial changes post war, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland gained independence from Russian empire.
United Kingdom gained League of Nations mandates in Africa and Middle East.
Irish Free State gained independence from UK.
The social trauma of war is exemplified in UK. The 1921 Census found 19,803,022 women and 18,082,220 men – badged as the “surplus 2 million” by newspapers.
There were 1,209 single women between ages of 25 and 29 for every 1,000 men. 1931 census 505 of these women were still single, and 35% did not marry while still able to bear children.
Revolution can also be seen as evidence of the social trauma, with Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), “Sette Giugno” in Malta 1919, and “Biennio Rosso” in Italy 1919-1920 and Labin Republic 1921 as manifestations of this.

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