Chapter 21:The Collapse and recovery of Europe

This chapter went over what happened during the years of the World Wars. It went over how it affected the countries that were involved in both wars and mainly how Europe lost its power house abilities. The start of World War I, began because of an accidental assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the Austrian archduke. The Slavic nationalism and Austrian opposition was the beginning of the war. During the war there were alliances that were: Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Italy, and Triple Entente of Russia, France, and Britain. Europe was ahead of most of the countries when it came to their tools, but not when it came to their military services. 

The wars caused economic damage of the European empire that was once a power house on its own. As men were away from home while fighting the war, women were able to take over the jobs that the men were working before they left. During the other countries were being damaged by the war, Japan were just on the rise of industrialization and economic stability during the 20th century. Since Germany was the blame of  World War I their land was split up into pieces to be shared among the winners of the war, which was established in the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles also listed other: "Germany lost its colonial empire and 15 percent of its European territory, was required to pay heavy reparations to the winners, had its military forces severely restricted, and had to accept sole responsibility for the outbreak of the war." A positive that came from this is that America was the center stage instead Europe, because it was coming up from being colonies into a full nation that had its own military, wars, independence, technology, government,etc.