What were the economic effects of world war 1?

What two things are being compared in this epic simile (the odysseus)

What do you think was a drawback to this method of calculating distance

Germany italy and japan formed the tripartite pact in part because they: a. add chicken wings to the united states to stay out of world war ii b. share the ruling philosophies based on communist economics c. resented the agreements they were forced to sign at the munich conference d. selena territories were threatened by aggressive foreign states