WWI Casualties Analysis

1) It seems a tad ridiculous that so many of these people were fighting someones else's fight. The alliances formed, I assume, were STRONG ones considering the amount of solders pulled from these two countries. In the end, there were thousands killed from both sides and a treaty was signed.

2)Geographically, Austria-Hungary is directly in the middle Russia and France. The fact they were in the center of so many fighting countries could be the reason their casualty rates were so high. Another reason would be that Russia and France had two fronts which would force Austria-Hungary to separate their army and therefore weaken it, resulting in higher numbers of casualties.

3)I presume "missing" soldiers as men who decieded to run-away or were shunned from their countries. The ones that fled were probably those who saw and experienced the horrors of war and began to question the purpose. The Russians too shared this feeling most likely had little faith in their country as a whole and what they were able to do. This may have influenced the start of the Russian Revolution because Russia was a separated country. There was no trust and the government had just collapsed under the stress of the war.

4)The number of soldiers America rallied up just shows how much it was philanthropized throughour the United States. America could have brought in even more if they needed to. They were really the decideing factor that brought an end to the war because both sides were pretty pooped. Although America procrastinated on joining the war, they went in full force and got what they were after.

5) In all, the allies had a far more countries involved than the central powers. These numbers show that the Allies fought smart. Meaning, they were probably better supplied, better trained, and as a result they had fewer casualties. Also, over time more and more countries started joining the war, putting more pressure on the Central Powers until there was a mutual agreement to stop fighting. Plus, since a lot of countries joined late for the Allies, their attitude about the war remained undaunted for a while longer during the time the Central Powers were beginning to doubt their involvement.


6) My overall thoughts of the casualties of WWI are that they were mostly pointless since the countries were only in the war because of their allies.The chart tells me that both of the sides were exhausting their resources in order to win the war that most countries did not know what they were fighting for. The chart does not tell me how many of the men went crazy when they went home or were greatly affected by the war (mentally). This would probably be worse than actually being physically wounded.