War In A Nutshells

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Topic 3: No One Spared
In a nutshell? Picture from: http://www.dakinarchives.net/iphoto/wwIcartoons/Desktop-Pages/Image5.html

Identify the many groups of people devastated by WWI.
Men
Women
Children
Many races and ethnicities
Describe how the war took its toll on these populations
Zeppelins in the heat of battle killed a bunch of kindergartens.
Women had to be careful making ammunition
Women working in factories with TNT could get poisoned with their skin yellow and their hair orange.
Women, men and children could become ill
(REST OF REASERCH IS FROM: http://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/world-war-i/resources/global-effect-world-war-i)
5 million civilians died
http://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/the-war-effort-at-home

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