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World War I in Germany

Germany went to war with France, Great Britain, and the U.S. World War I started because of the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. Germany lost the war. After World War I Germany experienced a lot of inflation meaning that the value of money went down. The cost of the war for Germany was estimated to be $38 billion. Germany suffered the loss of 1.7 million young men, and 4.3 million men being wounded during the conflict. After World War I people lived in harsh conditions, and had no food. Germany society changed enormously as a result of the war. The percentage of woman in the work force risen to 37%. Women now had a significance in the German economy. Former soldiers and many Germans believed the army had been cheated due to the loss of the war. Germans now looking for someone to blame soon began to blame Kaiser.