The human loss from the war was mainly from the USSR. At the time, Germany was the strongest power in Europe yet she remained burdened with political misery. While it was beginning the process of destroying Europe, the war also began to fulfill prophecy. In the nineteenth century, a Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, foresaw a future in which the world would be divided between the United States and Russia. Both would expand east and west until the buffers between them were absorbed or subordinated. Europe was impoverished and exhausted, Asia was already in chaos after the collapse of China.

Women became a bigger part of society. Because men were at war, they took most of the jobs, which men previously held. In England, the proportion of woman workers rose strikingly in public transportation, banking, and commerce. After the war, many women could get a job, get an apartment to live in, could go out without a guardian, and were able to smoke in public. Eventually, women won the right to vote in certain countries. Strong forces shaped the power and legal status of labor union. Employers fought to keep union organizations form interfering with their power and manufacturing plants and armed forces were often used against strike workers. A long war wasn't possible unless workers were willing to put in longer working hours and make an increasing rate of production.

The draft was unfair in the aspect that unskilled young men and junior officers were sent into the trenches most often, sometimes costing them their lives. Skilled workers, on the other hand, could be given assignments that kept them at home. Governments obtained many new powers in order to fight the war. War governments increased the power of the police to fight opposition. Everyone saw the necessity to expand police powers and control the opinion of the public. The government stopped anyone that supported a compromise peace. Expanded police powers included the control of public information such as censoring newspapers and personal mail.

The early part of the war satisfied the fascination with speed, violence, and the machine as manifested in the pre-war Futurists. Many movements shared resolute "machinist" contempt for all academic states

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