The Differences Between World War 1 and World War 2

The Differences and Similarities of World War I and

World War II

Lycethia Givens-Williams

English 121

Colin Murcray

April 18, 2011

Introduction

The world has experienced so many unlikely encounters from day to day, like World War I and World War II. These two wars have so many things in common and something's that are different. Both wars have played a major role in the way that the world today is operated.

World War I began in the summer of 1914 and lasted until November of 1918. It was a local European conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia on July 28, 1914 as an end result of the assassination of heir to the throne Archduke Francis Ferdinand. This war was the battle of all battles because of the countries and their fight over bragging rights and territories, but however the fundamental causes of the war were already deeply present in previous European centuries. This history in particular points out the political and economic policies of each country. This caused Europe to enormous armaments and two very hostile military alliances. World War II was from September 1, 1939 to 1945. This war started based on the complex of reduced single generalization. Even through the more remote that the causes the principal factors and forces then it ended up shaped; while the development angled and its various forms.

Both wars had many similarities, for example World War I and World War II were fought with the same countries. Great Britain, United States, Russia, and France were all fighting against their Allie Germany; which ended in the result of Germany losing the war and their territory. The United States joined both wars late and declares winning the war singled handily. Another similarity that is associated with the two wars is the underlying cause of each war was Imperialism and Nationalism, but both wars signaled the importance of mobility; which started to close the age on mass armies and their enormous fleets. This obviously shifted the advantage in the war because they were able to use more technology to benefit them in having the weapons necessary to protect themselves like: machine guns, missiles, tanks, snipers and rockets.

Meanwhile, the two also had many differences. One difference is the causalities of each war. In WWI was 33,082,879 the grand total for solider combined that died. While the causalities in WWII were on a much larger scale. WWII causalities were over 60 million the death toll in WWII was 62,586,670. That is well over 29 million deaths in WW II. The reason that this war was different from World War I is that it served as a battle over forces of fascism and communion, which