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¶ … ideological relationship between WWI and WWII. The writer explores the ideological relationship between the two wars and then moves into the arena of contrasting the differences between several war germane terms. The comparison includes Fascism and Nazism. There were three sources used to complete this paper.
Should the U.S. launch an attack on Iraq? Nations of the world have been lining up on both sides of this question for the last few weeks. The world is used to divisions when it comes to military action. World War One and World War Two both provided training grounds for the world nations drawing lines in the sand and choosing sides. The World Wars were ideologically related in several ways with the most important ideal being personal freedom.
Each of the world wars stood for freedom. The freedom to choose one's lifestyle and the freedom to choose one's government style and participants were the driving forces behind the wars. Each of the wars involved the public announcement of allies and the proven loyalty among those allegiances.
The world wars had as much to do with allegiance as they did with individual national beliefs. The allies had to band together in a show of solidarity so that the allies would back them when they needed help in the future. It is something that caused two world wars and it is a commonality in each war.
WWII began on September 1, 1939 and did not end until May 7, 1945. The war was centered on the loss of personal freedom and liberties that some of the governments were instilling upon the residents who lived there. Adolph Hitler committed Genocide against millions of Jews, Gypsies and others while the world looked on (Calvocoressi, 2001).
Each of the World Wars revolved around the right of people to live under a democratic society. The right to vote politicians into office, and vote them out if they are not making their constituents happy is a right that has been defended for many years. The world wars drove home the belief...
While the nations that were involved in the world wars could have stayed out of the war because it didn't directly involve them, there were concerns in both wars that not getting involved would cause the non-democratic sides to win. This would cause them to build in numbers and strengths and then be able to take over larger and larger democratic nations. Each world war was founded in the concern that there could be a future inability to protect the freedom of democracy if each smaller effort to do so was not stopped.
The end of WWII brought about the invention of the League of Nations that allows for the airing of international disputes. This was done in the hopes that World Wars were a thing of the past.
The causes of WWII boiled down to freedom (Axel, 1998). Adolph Hitler became a dictator and committed the most atrocious acts known to mankind on millions of innocent victims. Germany's rearmament worried many including the French so France approached the U.S.S.R. For protection and alliance (Calvocoressi, 2001). Hitler used this to claim that Germany was now in danger and he used this as an excuse to militarize even more. France and Britain waited and watched and did not stop Hitler which gave him a sense of power and he began the forcible annexation of Australia. During this time he also went after Czechoslovia with threats. The free world began to see what his plan was accomplishing. He was slowly taking over his area of the world and there were real concerns that his power goals would eventually include the entire world. Those he conquered were deprived of the freedom of choice and the world nations began to discuss how to stop him in his tracks.
The decision by various nations to enter the war only served to strengthen each side and the balance was equal for the most part. That worked until Japan made the fatal decision to attack Pearl Harbor. This…
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