Comparing the effects of WWI on Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands

While World War I is thought to have most greatly affected Germany and the surrounding European countries, it did in fact, damage other areas nearly as much. Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands all suffered from the first great World War. The First World War did not only cause negative effects. Africa, one nation that was very war torn, did benefit in small ways from the war in terms of relationships with other countries. "…

…white man's home...and the war was won... Black men the entire world over are asking to-day: "What have we got? What are we going to get out of it all?" World War I, cause of countless deaths; many of them innocent, affected not only Germany and the Jewish people, but many surrounding nations and nations round the world. The involvement of Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific Islands has often been overshadowed by Europe.