World Wars ComparedWARFARE

BOTH WORLD WARS!• Conflicts on a huge scale w/ huge costs &

global results. • Mass produced new weapons &

technologyTOTAL 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)