In both wars, the governments of the world had to try to fix the what had been destroyed.
America, on the other hand, had little to no damage in ww1 but had plenty in ww2. They spent most of the time after ww1 partying and making the stock market crash. While after ww2, they tried to get communism out of the new countries.
On June 29, 1892, workers belonging to the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck the Carnegie Steel Company at Homestead, Pa. to protest a proposed wage cut. ... The Homestead strike led to a serious weakening of unionism in the steel industry until the 1930s.