World Wars ComparedWARFARE
BOTH WORLD WARS!• Conflicts on a huge scale w/ huge costs &
global results.
• Mass produced new weapons &
technology
TOTAL WAR –
• entire Nation-states mobilized their people
and resources to win the war
use of media & propaganda, conscription,
government control of economy
• attacks on civilian targets
• Genocides in both wars!
• The Holocaust – 6 million Jews & 4
million “others”
World War I – Warfare
• Trench warfare
• Stalemate along the Western Front
• War of attrition
World War I - Warfare
• Chemical Weapons – mustard gas and
chlorine gas
World War II - Warfare• Fast moving air, sea, and land tactics
• Surprise attack and covert
communications & operations
World War II Warfare
• Amphibious warfare (D-Day and Island
Hopping)
World War II Warfare
• More new weapons – including the
atomic bomb
World War II Warfare• No surrender in Pacific & Soviet Union
(RACIAL WARFARE)
World War II experiences –
Soviet Union China