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. "World War I gave rise to a crucial change in the relationship between Africa and Europe." Although, through this war, England and Africa had a closer knit relationship, the devastation which the war caused was to a much greater scale than the progress. After the war, more than 2 million Africans had been slain, often in the process of making sacrifices for the British troops.…
