Cessation of nearly every sort of productive activity that
contributed to military operations.
Destruction of industry and rising inflation.
Fall in production of food throughput world due to calling up of
peasantry to fronts.
There was a permanent change in realm of finance with transferring
of wealth from Europe to America.
Education and scientific work was restricted or diverted to fulfil
the military needs of the nations.
Wide spread resentments and disillusionment with the compromises in
treaties and continued violence in certain part of the world and mutual
distrust between the victor nations.
Emergence of different kinds of movements such as an increasingly
strong pacifist movement, violent nihilist movement.
Tremendous loss of human lives in the nations. Total causalities
were 27 million out of which 8 million actually died in war.
Birth of number of independent European states and reorganization of
boundaries of many old states.
Adoption of new set of ideologies by nations such as Marxism,
Fascism and socialism.