Industrialization created the great powers of Great Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, and Japan. Competition for resources coupled with nationalism and an unstable balance-of-power structure created the international tension, which resulted in the First World War. World War I also called the First World War and, prior to World War II, the Great War and the War to End All Wars, was an event that changed nearly every aspect of life in the western world and created the modern world. From 1914 to 1918, the world was devastated and torn apart by a war, which took the lives of…
