World War 1 was a deadly long war that engulfed all continents into it. World War 1 started in 1914 because of an assassination that triggered the war and the ending in 1918 because of the surrender of the German Empire and the subsequent peace conference in Versailles.

Like any war, World War 1 was a deadly and bloody war that costs countless lives from all sides of the war. One of the worst aftereffects of the war is that many parts of the world were depopulated during the war because of hunger, plague, or killing.

The war also caused many advancements in technology for the better and for the worst. Positive technologies that were advanced because of the war is in the fields of medicine, sanitation, aviation, communication, and more. Still, there were countless more negative technological weapons advancements such as flame throwers, tanks, poison gas, and more, which made people more efficient and easier to kill and destroy other people.

A major aftereffect of World War 1 is how the borders of Europe and also the world were redrawn between the victors and also new ethnic nations that were once under gigantic Empires. Some major changes in the borders of nations and empires because of WW1 were the disintegration of the Austria-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire into smaller nations following ethnic boundaries and the formation of Poland as a sovereign nation after hundreds of years of subjugation and many more changes.

Another aftereffect that will have significant implications from World War 1 is the decline of the European Empires, which in turn catapulted the rise of the American nation. America because of surviving the war almost unscathed causing it to be the only great nation left economically and militarily, which launched America among the great world powers of the time.

After the War, the world became traumatic from the carnage and destruction, but it also brought great celebrations and hope that it will be what the famous expression says “The war to end all wars”, but hidden in the ashes of the war another war even bloodier will awake.