![]() Behind the lines labor power had to be redirected away from less necessary activities that were luxuries during a total war. ![]() Manpower had to be channeled into the front lines (all the powers except the United States and Britain had large trained reserves designed for just that). Total war demanded the total mobilization of all the nation's resources for a common goal. ![]() Among the Allies, Britain and its Empire spent $47 billion and the US$27 billion among the Central Powers, Germany spent $45 billion. One estimate (using 1913 US dollars), is that the Allies spent $147 billion on the war and the Central Powers only $61 billion. The Allies had much more potential wealth that they could spend on the war. For nonmilitary interactions among the major players see Diplomatic history of World War I.Ībout 10.9 million combatants and seven million civilians died during the entire war, including many weakened by years of malnutrition they fell in the worldwide Spanish Flu pandemic, which struck late in 1918, just as the war was ending. ![]() It covers the mobilization of armed forces and war supplies, lives of others, but does not include the military history. The home front during World War I covers the domestic, economic, social and political histories of countries involved in that conflict.
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