World War I Were Responsible For The Death Of Ww2 Analysis

World War I and II were responsible for the death of nearly 100 million people, yet it could be argued that, in short, both wars were started due to irresponsible actions of many nations based on the misinterpretation of actions by others. Additionally, Germany can be blamed for both wars, as in both cases, it was the initial aggressor. One would think that due to the growth of the global economy as well as the social equality that began to emerge in the beginning of the twentieth century, people would have been much too satisfied with the status quo or the direction of the status quo that they would not have wanted to fight wars with disastrous consequences such as these; evidently this was not true. In this essay I will examine what factors
The biggest cause of this factor was, in short, globalization and imperialism. There was a constant battle to own resources that one's homeland couldn't provide, leaving imperialism as the only option. Alliances were formed between nations largely on the basis of trade, which, as it turns out, would eventually be the cause of a global war evolving from what should have been a localized war between Serbia and Austria-Hungary. The fact that Russia, Germany, and Great Britain each had promises to countries in the war, once one country was pulled into it this caused the others to become involved. I would argue that Great Britain's involvement (which was one of the most significant) was almost arbitrary - involvement due to the German's crossing into Belgium really should not have been a major factor in the death of nearly 20 million people in the following years. It should also be noted that the leaders of most European countries were related by blood, and so it almost seems as though the war evolved from a disagreement among siblings, albeit, with millions of others able to fight the battle for them at a moment's
The United States, during and following WWI, had become the militaristic powerhouse that it essentially is today. The late entry into the first world war, and the same was found to be true during the second, gave America plenty of time to build military equipment rather than use it; the arms stockpile as well as the training of officers was unprecedented. Though the country had the capacity to fight a second world war, the reason that it occurred remains to be explained: Firstly, it was an angry Germany that started the process leading to World War II. The Treaty of Versailles left Germany in a position where it felt as though it had been gutted by the outside world. The level of disdain is of course imaginable, when you consider than third parties decided how to divvy up the country in a traditional imperialist fashion. While the sensible thing for the "winning" nations of World War I to do would have been to hold Germany accountable for the treaty imposed upon it, however, appeasements were made which allowed for gradual re-expansion and military growth due to a bigger fear of communism than the losing parties of the first