The Great World Wars
There are many similarities between World Wars One and Two, one of the main similarities being surprise. No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. Before WWI, almost all the wars involved mainly two to three countries and were quick and decisive. What made WWI so strange was that it lasted from 1914 to 1918 and involved several countries worldwide, thus resulting in the name World War One. What made World War Two such a surprise is that almost no country wanted another war of such destruction, especially during the socioeconomic crisis that was the Great Depression. No one expected a leader such as Adolph Hitler to overtake an entire country and enact the world’s greatest genocide. It certainly was a surprise that Japan would launch an attack on Pearl Harbor and at that time no one expected a nuclear bomb would end the war. Both wars had similar consequences. After the wars it left Germany in a bind, it left millions of people dead, an
World War One left Germany to pay huge financial reparations in addition to the Great Depression which left everyone broke. No one wanted another war with such death and annihilation, but Germany was left with no choice but to follow Hitler’s plan. The United States didn’t even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn’t even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. Again the alliance system brought virtually all of Europe into the war and because of lingering Imperialism brought the whole world into the war. Imperialism was key in both wars because it provided the Europeans with certain resources not found in Europe. Similar to WWI, WWII introduced new, more efficient, more powerful weaponry, better tanks, better airplane and the continuation of trench warfare. Germany, like in the previous war, was defeated when Hitler’s much praised Blitzkrieg failed because of the harsh Russian winters. The key to the next fifty years was what ended the war: the n
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