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Most people did not think that the war was going to last very long.

A lot of people signed up to fight.

They were in for a surprise.

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Total war is basically where people and resources are always moving.

The war affects all of the people living in the countries at war, even if they were very far away from the fighting itself.

"Entire populations became engaged in a fight for survival" (par. 1 in Voices of The First WW)

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Germany was basically blamed for everything in the war and had to sign the Treaty of Versailles.

German people faced famine.

Germany also did not finish paying off the half-trillion dollars of war reparations until 2010.

These horrible conditions and anger soon played a major role in leading to WWII.

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The war dragged on for almost 5 and a half years--to everyone's disbelief.

Soldiers fighting on both sides of the war had to live in trenches for the length of the war, where they fought, unknowingly.

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32 Countries/9 Territories .

First real total war.

The world today has looked back and not had another total war like this.

There is fighting going on right now, but it is not as severe as a total war.

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In Europe, total war created war economies.

Governments drafted many men to leave and fight.

Women took over jobs that they never could before.

After the war most men took back the jobs, but it was a start to more of women's freedoms.

Most of the world today now allows women to have the same freedoms as men.