Datas com História: 11 de Novembro de 1918

World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France.

The First World War ended with a Europe scarred by trenches, spent resources, and littered with the bodies of the millions who died in battle. The direct consequences of WWI brought many old regimes crashing to the ground, and ultimately, would lead to the end of 300 years of European hegemony.

No other war had changed the map of Europe so dramatically - four empires were shattered: The German, the Austro-Hungarian, the Ottoman and the Russian. Their four dynasties, the Hohenzollerns, the Habsburgs, the Ottomans, and the Romanovs, who had roots of power back to the days of the Crusades, all fell during or after the war.

Casualties
For more details, see World War I casualties.

Country - Casualties - Dead - Wounded
Russia - 6,650,000 - 1,700,000 - 5,950,000
Germany - 6,253,757 - 2,037,700 - 4,216,057
France - 5,623,800 - 1,357,800 - 4,266,000
Austria-Hungary - 4,820,000 - 1,200,000 - 3,620,000
British Empire* - 2,998,671 - 908,371 - 2,090,300
Serbia - 1,700,000 - 450,000 - 950,000
Italy - 1,597,000 - 650,000 - 947,000
Ottoman Empire - 725,000 - 325,000 - 400,000
Romania - 455,706 - 335,706 - 120,000
United States*** - 360,300 - 126,000 - 234,300
Bulgaria - 239,890 - 87,500 - 152,390
Canada* - 239,605 - 66,655 - 172,950
Australia* - -218,501 - 59,330 - 159,171
New Zealand - 76,692 - 18,166 - 58,526
Montenegro - 60,000 - 50,000 - 10,000
Belgium - 58,402 - 13,716 - 44,686
Greece - 26,000 - 5,000 - 21,000
Portugal - 20,973 - 7,222 - 13,751
Newfoundland** - 3,565 - 1,251 - 2,314
Japan - 1,207 - 300 - 907
Totals 32,129,069 - 9,381,551 - 23,148,975

* British Empire includes Canadian, Irish, Australian, and Indian casualties.
** Newfoundland was a dominion at the time, and not part of Canada.
*** United States official figures, given April 1, 1920 read: 35,560 killed in action; 14,720 died of wounds; 57,460 died of disease; 7,920 died of other causes; 205,690 wounded; 46 missing; 4,480 prisoners. Source: The Communication Trench, Anecdotes & Statistics from The Great War 1914-1918 by Will R. Bird (pg. 75)

Note: Norway had approx. 50 percent of its merchant fleet sunk, percentage-wise the highest loss of any nations' merchant fleet during WWI, killing 1,900 sailors, mostly by their vessels torpedoed by German submarines.

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