World Wars Compared - Warfare

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