Describe how world war i was a blow to the ideals of a "superior" western civilization and to global socialism.

The Soviet Union, as it was called then, considered itself a superior civilization, its leaders sought to spread the socialist ideal throughout the world, until people like Wilson, gave a hard blow, when revealed that their ideals were totally contradictory to what they said, the open door world economy was at risk, international stability too, that included private property and other international affairs, that led to an international military intervention (WWI), which prevented communism from spreading throughout the world and taking over economies and societies.