World Wars and Their Relationships
The relationship between World War I and World War II is based on several factors. First, Germany actually helped start the first war and did start the second war. The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria by a Serbian national triggered the war. Germany was allied with Austria-Hungary, and then Italy. When the assassination occurred, several allied countries denounced Serbia and offered it ultimatums. Finally, Austria-Hungary demanded ten things that they knew Serbia could not accomplish, directly leading to the war. Austria-Hungary actually declared war when the demands were not met, and Germany declared war on Russia the next day, bringing the allies of Russia, such as France and Great Britain into the war. In the Second World War, Germany began taking over territory around the country, and they invaded Poland in 1939, which actually set off the war.
Another relationship to both wars is that the United States did not enter the war until they were well under...
The First World War began in July 1914, and the United States did not enter the war until April 1917. They entered because of a complicated German telegraph that tried to get Mexico to side with Germany and attack the United States. In the Second World War, the U.S. did not enter the war that began in 1939 with Germany's attack of Poland until 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. During both wars, the United States tried to work with the other countries to create a peace treaty, up until they actually entered the war themselves.
In both wars, technology was expanded and new technologies were developed to help fight the war. In World War I, airplanes were used in combat for the first time, the pilots developed new ways of aerial bombing, dog fighting, and reconnaissance that helped both sides fight more effectively. The Germans invented nerve gases that were dangerous weapons on the battlefield, and new types of submarines and battleships were developed. In World War II, technology had…
