World War One affected society drastically both in terrible ways and in it actually helped in other ways. For example WW1 actually helped established world powers like America and helped them progress into the powerful countries they are today.
The war was mainly caused by the growing world and conflicts over territories in Africa. When the war started countries competed over who get the most advanced weapons. America benefited from this arms race because they used there new factories to make weapons for both sides of the war. Soon Americas economy was booming all because of World War One and the arms race.
Not all countries benefited from the war. Most actually suffered heavy casualties because of the new weapons like gas and machine guns. Soldiers mostly died because the outdated fighting strategies conflicted with the cutting edge weapons which resulted in a massacre for both sides. So mostly countries lost whole generations of young men to the war leaving a lot less workers to work at factories which set back certain countries economies.
The country who took the worse blow from WW1 was probably Germany. They were the losers of the war and were blamed for starting it so they had to pay for the war. The crippling debt destroyed the German's economy leaving them angry and full of resentment. This was the perfect opportunity for a revenge seeking dictator like hitler to gain power. Soon this would lead to world war two which occurs later in epoch four.
WW1 affected society from giving certain places a booming economy and in other places, crippling theirs. But over all every place and every country suffered from the same thing. Millions of young men from all over the world giving their lives for in some ways a useless and fruitless war
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