What Part Of The World War 1 Effort Brought About The Greatest Change In Society?

Question

Explain why?

Answer 1

World War I was essential to the collapse of the Russian Czar and the attempted rise of a socialist state. Aside from this fact, WWI only served to usher in WWII. But after WWII, the power attained by the Soviet Union in defeating the Germans provided them with international leverage. This leverage was used by the working class of Europe and the U.S. to establish significant gains for the underclass. Proof of this concept is further offered by the fact that the fall of the Soviet Union has coincided with the international attack upon labor by the interests of capital around the globe. Capital no longer fears that the underclass can turn to an alternative system.

Additionally, the conflict that arose between the two competing powers after WWII actually served to usher in relative stability in the world. With the demise of the Soviet Union, the same problems between competing capitalist nation states have once again arisen that laid at the foundation of WWI and WWII -- the pursuit of raw materials and new markets.

Answer 2

I feel sorry for saps who answer they don't know or they don't care - I wonder why they answer the question if they have nothing to contribute?
I think the military effort by France, Great Britain and her Dominions, and the United States of America on the Western Front in 1918 brought about the greatest change in the European socities that were directly involved in the conflict. The first and greatest change was the defeat of the Kaiser's soldiers occupying France and Eastern Europe.

Answer 3

I think that the Russian Revolution was the greatest outcome of WW!. Soviet Communism, exported to China, Cuba, Eastern Europe became part of the excuse for the rise of ultra-nationalistic Fascism in Europe, the Cold War and the shape of the world today.

In fact, Lenin may be considered the most influential political figure of the 20th Century.

Answer 4

The greatest change in society was that WW1 was the downfall of kings, only England retained a actual Monarchy in there body politic. The Kaisers, Kings, Queens, and Czars were now a thing of the past. Democracy, Socialism, and Fascism were on the march.

Answer 5

I would say the changing face of the European borders due to the war, Some Countries were 'swallowed up completely!' Also the aeroplane, it made it's debut as a war weapon, and also as a means of transport that was not envisioned before the great war at all! Have a good day!

Answer 6

It knocked the hell out of the English Class system as all classes were treated the same in the trenches. Butlers rubbed shoulders with farmers or shop assistants butchers accountants and so on.

Many of the landed gentry bought commissions for their sons but they were often the first to get zapped as they lead their boys over the top.

The war effectively removed a whole generation of sons from France Germany England and their colonies.

The class system remained but nothing like it was

Answer 7

The great loss of life in that war, the hellishness of life in the trenches, the passing of a whole generation's way of thinking about life and it's ethical outworking of the life of society is, to my mind the greatest change. We, western man, began to invent ever and ever greater intruments of destruction and numbers of lives lost in the war because of those machines gave us the power to kill more efficiently.

Along with all that I think we have begun to depend more and more upon technology to defend us and with each succeeding war (since WWII) have become less and less sure about when it is right to go and what ways are right to use to win--morality has been turned on it's ears. The post WWI era ushered in the flappers and the whiskey and the fun, only to turn into depression and WWII. WWII was fought to turn back a tyrannical form of government from the West, and then from the East, and we could still sing of freedom in these wars and count the cost in more than bodies--but in what was saved of our own way of life.

Now we are caught in a war more like the Vietnman police action, in wars and incipient wars building on multiple fronts, and we are not united in what is important enough to save to lay our lives on the line for it.

The cost is very great. And one has to be very sure before choosing to pay a high personal price and putting one's chracter, emotions, will, and nerves to those kinds of tests.

I think the disunion over Vietnam and Iraq have many similarities, but the loss of Iran will have even greater consequences to a peaceful future for the whole world.

And I think these changes in thinking really began in a deep way in WWI.

Answer 8

In the US, I'd say it was equal rights for women. Hard to deny allowing all women to vote, effectively almost doubling the electorateis the greatest change (take that civil war.) You can write the rest of the paper yourself.

Answer 9

the invasion of Russia by central powers helped create a greater unrest in Russia. It helped lead to the revolt by the Bolshevick party which soonwould become the Soviet Union..


Id say that was the biggest change.