There were no French cities destroy, but there were nine villages destroyed. Three of which have been rebuilt and the other six have been preserved. Germany also didn't have any real cities destroyed from fighting.
There were no real countries destroyed,instead they were separated into individual ruling countries.
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Kids continued to attend school during World War 1. In countries that had compulsory education before the war, nearly all kids continued to go to school. In many countries education was compulsory only up to age 14 or in some cases, only 13. In some European countries there were educational reforms in the aftermath of the war.
The expression "the third world" came about during the Cold War - it referred then to countries which were not within the sphere of influence of either America or Russia. From that it came to refer to the 'underdeveloped' countries of the world.
The title comes from the Bible - the Book of Proverbs, 9:1: "Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars" (KJV). Just before World War I, Lawrence began work on a book about seven great cities of the Middle East. His chosen title was to be: Seven Pillars of Wisdom. But When war broke out, it was still incomplete and Lawrence said he had destroyed his manuscript. But he was still determined to use the original title for his later work. After two failures, he finally succeeded by starting from scratch, once again, after he lost his original manuscript on a train.
A line of heavy defenses, mostly large forts, that the French built on their border with Germany after the First World War. Totally useless as the Germans invaded through the Low Countries.
Europe (especially France) was devastated after the First World War. Harvests were not gathered extensively for a long time afterwards, as the war had destroyed not only the current crops, but also the land and facilities. As such, European nations were forced to purchase excess food from the United States, allowing the US to grow while they themselves continued to fall.