World wars compared warfare
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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)