Practices_Compare+WW1+and+WW2

=PRACTICES OF WAR= =COMPARISON BETWEEN WORLD WAR ONE AND WORLD WAR TWO:=

Unlike the 1914-18 war, the Second World War was a war of rapid movement; it was a much more complex affair. With major campaigns taking place in the Pacific and the Far East, in North Africa and deep in the heart of Russia, as well as in central and western Europe and the Atlantic. It was an expansive war, fought on six continents and involved most of the world's nations, including all of the great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. Thus the structure of the opposing sides was parallel to that of the First World War as there were two distinct groups of nations. However in the Second World War, the Soviet Union fought on the side of the Allies. At the beginning of the Second World War there was a five month period after the invasion of Poland by Germany and Russia known as the ‘phoney war’ where German forces occupied Denmark and Norway in April 1940. World War One is clearly defined as a ‘war of attrition’. Trench warfare was dominant and various forms of attack such as gassing and heavy artillery strikes from distance were favored. Tanks were used but to ill effect until later in the war when they were used as more of a battering ram to break the lines of enemy soldiers


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bombings and sudden aerial attacks, with highly mobile armies took dominance in the Second World War. The use of naval warfare in the First World War had been restricted and quite ineffective. In the Second World War the contribution of both air and sea attacks greatly increased the efficiency of a nation’s attack. This led to a continued war of ‘rapid movement’.

Some facts that wiki answers thought were interesting:
 * In both wars Germany was fighting against Great Britain, France, Russia and United States and in both wars Germany lost the war and territory.
 * In First World War Ottoman Empire (Turkey) carried genocide against Armenians, in Second World Germans carried genocide against Jews.
 * But while First World War was mostly the war between countries, Second World War was also the war of ideologies, such as Fascism and Communism.
 * And of course casualties and damages in the Second World War were on larger scale.

//Source: This file was created by a Wesley history student.//