Truth and Consequences: Taking Advantage of the Loser of WWI Although the costs and strain that World War I placed on the countries involved in it were unimaginable, the peace treaty Germany was forced to sign was neither fair nor just. Millions upon millions of men lost their lives or were wounded and women and children suffered from not having and positive male influence and being forced into manual labor on the homefront. The cost alone to the United States was $27,729,000,000 and the Americans killed numbered 53,407. Illness and other causes brought